Si Woo Kim Wins But Patrick Cantlay's Weekend Is The Real Eye-Opener
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Let’s table the whole PGA West Stadium Course-has-turned-into-Indian-Wells discussion for another day and instead congratulate Si Woo Kim on his final round 64 to win the American Express Championship. Also, a special salute to the PGA Tour staffer who computed that it’s been 1,352 since Kim’s Players Championship win. Seems it was only 2,352 days ago.
Even with some pesky breezes Sunday, the Stadium is no longer the course-too-hard-to-host-the-Hope afterr widespread adoption of Keto diets and analytics.
This does not in any way diminish runner-up Patrick Cantlay’s stunning weekend as reported on here by Adam Schupak at Golfweek.
Thanks to the PGA Tour communications team for sending out these incredible feats by the former UCLA Bruin and world No. 10:
He bested the course-record by two with a bogey-free 11-under 61, replacing a 9-under 63 set by Charlie Reiter in 2019
Cantlay was 18-under in his final 36 holes, tying the best score in relation to par in the final two rounds of a 72-hole event on Tour (Rocco Mediate/2003 Sentry TOC); eclipsed his previous best mark of 14-under in the final two rounds (2018 Shriners Hospitals/2nd)
Cantlay made 20 birdies in the final two rounds, the most in a 72-hole non-major event on the PGA TOUR (19/Kevin Chappell/2013 The American Express)
He made 11 birdies in the final round
Cantlay made 151 feet, 10 inches of putts in the Final Round, his most feet of putts made in a round of his Tour career
Sat T56 and seven strokes back after 36 holes before carding weekend rounds of 65-61
Jeremy Schilling also highlighted this about Cantlay’s weekend bogey:
