Patrick Cantlay is a 34-year-old American PGA Tour pro from Long Beach, California, with 8 tour wins and a career-high World No. 3 ranking. He just finished runner-up at the 2026 BMW Championship, sits 26th in the OWGR, and heads to the TOUR Championship at East Lake, where he won the 2021 FedEx Cup.
Patrick Cantlay closed the BMW Championship with three straight birdies and walked off Bellerive Country Club in second place, three shots behind winner Wyndham Clark. That runner-up finish moved him back into the FedEx Cup’s top 30 and booked his spot at East Lake, the course where he won the whole thing back in 2021. This page pulls together everything worth knowing about him right now, his current ranking, his full stats, his wins, his wife, and an honest look at his net worth. No padding, no numbers dressed up as facts.
Cantlay’s BMW Championship Result Just Changed His Season
Cantlay came into the BMW Championship ranked 43rd in the FedExCup standings, outside the cut line for East Lake. He left it 19th. Four times during the final round he answered a bogey with a birdie, then closed with three in a row for a 68 and a 14-under total.
Wyndham Clark held on for the win at 17-under 263, and Rory McIlroy finished third after a bogey on the par-5 17th cost him a share of the lead. Cantlay’s runner-up check and the points that came with it were enough to jump him from the FedExCup bubble into a safe top-30 spot. That earns him a return trip to East Lake for the TOUR Championship, which runs August 27 through 30 with a $40 million purse on the line. He’s been there before. Cantlay won at East Lake in 2021 to claim both the tournament and that year’s FedEx Cup.
Who Is Patrick Cantlay? The Quick Facts
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Full name | Patrick Stephen Cantlay |
| Nickname | Patty Ice |
| Born | March 17, 1992, Long Beach, California |
| Age | 34 |
| Height | 6’0″ (1.83m) |
| Weight | 190 lbs |
| Turned pro | 2012 |
| College | UCLA |
| Residence | Jupiter, Florida |
| Caddie | Joe LaCava (since May 2023) |
Cantlay grew up in Long Beach and turned pro in 2012 after a record-setting amateur career, 55 weeks as the world’s top-ranked amateur, a mark that stood until Jon Rahm broke it. A back injury nearly ended things before they started. He made only six PGA Tour starts in 2014, sat out all of 2015, and didn’t win his first tour event until 2017.
Cantlay’s Current OWGR Ranking, Explained
Cantlay sits 26th in the Official World Golf Ranking as of this update. That number moved fast. Two weeks ago he’d slipped to 41st, his lowest ranking in nine years, after a stretch of missed cuts at the Farmers Insurance Open, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the U.S. Open, and the Scottish Open. The BMW Championship runner-up finish clawed back 15 spots in a single week.
His career-high ranking is No. 3, a spot he reached twice: in January 2022 and again after winning the 2022 BMW Championship. He’s never been world No. 1. Scottie Scheffler currently holds that spot with a comfortable lead over Rory McIlroy, and Cantlay’s own math on the world rankings has been public before. He told reporters in 2024 that the system needed an update, not because he was chasing the top spot at the time, but because he felt LIV Golf’s results weren’t being weighed consistently against Tour events.
Cantlay’s Full 2026 Stats Breakdown
| Stat | Number | What It Means |
|---|---|---|
| Strokes Gained: Total | 10th on Tour | His overall game is currently elite, not just good |
| Strokes Gained: Putting | 95th on Tour | The putter, not the ball-striking, is holding him back |
| Driving Distance | 68th on Tour | Middle of the pack off the tee, no bomber reputation |
| PGA Tour wins (career) | 8 | Plus 1 Korn Ferry Tour win, 9 pro wins total |
| Career earnings | $63,828,854 | Official PGA Tour money, updated through the BMW Championship |
| Cuts made (career) | 187 of 220 | An 85% cut-making rate across 12 seasons |
| 2026 season top 25s | 11 | Consistency over a full year, not just one hot week |
The gap between his Strokes Gained: Total rank (10th) and his putting rank (95th) is the whole story of his 2026 season. He’s tee-to-green elite and cold on the greens, which is exactly the profile that produces a lot of top-15s and not enough trophies.
Every PGA Tour Win of Cantlay’s Career
| Date | Tournament | Age | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 2017 | Shriners Hospitals for Children Open | 25 | Playoff |
| Jun 2, 2019 | Memorial Tournament | 27 | 2 strokes |
| Oct 25, 2020 | Zozo Championship | 28 | 1 stroke |
| Jun 6, 2021 | Memorial Tournament (2nd) | 29 | Playoff |
| Aug 29, 2021 | BMW Championship | 29 | Playoff (6 holes) |
| Sep 5, 2021 | TOUR Championship / FedEx Cup | 29 | 1 stroke |
| Apr 24, 2022 | Zurich Classic (team, w/ Xander Schauffele) | 30 | 2 strokes |
| Aug 21, 2022 | BMW Championship (2nd) | 30 | 1 stroke |
The 2021 BMW Championship win is the wildest one on the list. Cantlay and Bryson DeChambeau tied at 27-under and needed six extra holes to settle it, the longest playoff of that PGA Tour season. He hasn’t won since that second BMW title in 2022. Three years without a trophy is a long stretch for a player who was PGA Tour Player of the Year the season before, and it’s the single biggest thing missing from an otherwise loaded résumé.
Cantlay’s Masters Finishes, Year by Year
| Year | Result | Score | Notable Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | T9 | -9 | His best Masters finish, three shots behind winner Tiger Woods |
| 2020 | T17 | -6 | Played in November due to the COVID-delayed schedule |
| 2021 | CUT | N/A | His only missed cut at Augusta as a pro |
| 2022 | T39 | +7 | A rough week the same year he won a second BMW Championship |
| 2023 | T14 | -3 | The week his slow play first became a national storyline |
| 2024 | T22 | +2 | Steady, unspectacular |
| 2025 | T36 | +2 | His weakest recent Masters week |
| 2026 | T12 | -5 | Opened 77, then reeled off a 66 with six birdies to climb into the top five before settling for T12 |
Ten Masters starts as a pro, one top-10. That’s a solid record, not a great one, especially next to the three major runner-up-caliber finishes he’s put together elsewhere (T3 at the 2019 PGA Championship, T3 at the 2024 U.S. Open, T8 at the 2022 Open Championship). Augusta National just hasn’t been his best major.
Is Patrick Cantlay Married? Meet Nikki Guidish
Yes. Patrick Cantlay married Nicole “Nikki” Guidish on October 2, 2023, at the St. Regis in Rome, one day after Team USA lost the Ryder Cup at Marco Simone. They’d gotten engaged the year before, during a trip to Napa. Guidish holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree and has worked as a pharmacist, and she’s become a regular presence at his tournaments alongside the other Tour wives.
The timing of the wedding, a day after a bruising Ryder Cup loss, tells you something about how that week actually went for him. Cantlay was also at the center of that Ryder Cup’s biggest sideshow. He refused to wear a Team USA cap all week, which European fans turned into a running joke, “No Hat Pat,” and a chant about his bank account. Cantlay said the story that he was protesting unpaid Ryder Cup appearances was false and that the hat simply didn’t fit.
What Is Patrick Cantlay’s Net Worth?
Public estimates for Cantlay’s net worth range from roughly $17 million to $40 million, depending on which site you check, and every one of those figures is a guess. Golfers don’t publish net worth statements, so every outlet is layering its own assumption about taxes, agent fees, and living costs on top of the same public prize money. The most commonly repeated figure through mid-2026 sits around $30 million.
What’s actually verified is his prize money: $63,828,854 in official PGA Tour earnings, a number pulled straight from the Tour’s own career stats page. That figure alone is already higher than most net worth guesses, which tells you how much gets eaten by taxes, agent cuts, and caddie pay before a dollar of Tour prize money turns into personal wealth. On top of that, Cantlay has real endorsement income. He was Goldman Sachs’ first-ever sports sponsorship in 2020, and in January 2024 he became the first brand ambassador for Apollo and its retirement-services arm, Athene. Titleist and FootJoy round out the major deals.
Cantlay’s Swing and What’s In His Bag
Cantlay’s bag, as of the BMW Championship, runs almost entirely Titleist with one notable exception. Here’s the full setup:
- Driver: Titleist GTS4, 9°, Mitsubishi Diamana ZF 60 TX shaft
- 3-wood: Titleist 915F, 15°, Diamana ZF 70 TX shaft
- 7-wood: Titleist TS2, 21°, Diamana ZF 80 TX shaft
- 4-iron: Srixon ZXi5
- 5-9 irons: Titleist 718 AP2, True Temper Dynamic Gold 120 X100 shafts
- Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM7 (47°, 51°) and SM10 (57°, 61°)
- Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X
- Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
That Srixon 4-iron sitting inside an otherwise all-Titleist iron set is the one real outlier in the bag, a small sign that Cantlay picks equipment by the numbers a head actually produces, not by brand loyalty. The Spider Tour X is a proven, unspectacular putter choice, and that fits his game better than anything flashy would.
If you’re hoping to see Cantlay bomb it past the field off the tee, that’s not his game. His driving distance has ranked outside the Tour’s top 60 for most of 2026, and it isn’t the part of his bag doing the heavy lifting. His short game is the best part of his game, full stop, and it’s the reason he keeps finishing inside the top 25 even in seasons where his driver lets him down. For context on how his numbers stack up against the rest of the field, our own golf club distance chart breaks down average carry by skill level.
Cantlay’s Slow-Play Reputation, Explained
Cantlay’s pace of play became a national story during the final round of the 2023 Masters, where he shot 75 to finish T14 and drew visible frustration from playing partner Viktor Hovland. The following week, fans heckled him over pace at the RBC Heritage, and his caddie responded with a gesture toward the crowd. The label stuck. It resurfaced again during his runner-up finish at the 2025 TOUR Championship, where his pace drew fresh criticism even as he played some of his best golf of the year.
Cantlay isn’t the only deliberate player on Tour, and PGA Tour policy has never issued him a penalty stroke for it. What’s true is that he tends to draw the most attention for it, usually because it shows up in the final group of a major or a big Sunday broadcast window, not a random Thursday morning tee time nobody’s watching.
How to Find Cantlay’s Scorecard Today
There’s no live Patrick Cantlay round today. He finished his BMW Championship week on Sunday, August 23, and the PGA Tour’s next event, the TOUR Championship at East Lake, doesn’t start until Thursday, August 27. His most recent competitive round is that final-round 68 at Bellerive Country Club.
When he is playing, the fastest places to check a live scorecard are the PGA Tour’s own tournament leaderboard or ESPN’s golf scorecard tool, both of which update hole by hole during a round. Just know that ESPN’s default scorecard view sometimes loads an older tournament first, so check the date header before assuming you’re looking at his current round.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Patrick Cantlay married?
Yes. He married Nicole “Nikki” Guidish, a Doctor of Pharmacy, on October 2, 2023, at the St. Regis in Rome, the day after the 2023 Ryder Cup.
What is Patrick Cantlay’s net worth?
Public estimates range from about $17 million to $40 million, with $30 million the most commonly cited figure. His verified PGA Tour career earnings alone total $63,828,854.
What is Patrick Cantlay’s OWGR ranking?
He’s currently 26th, up from a nine-year-low of 41st in mid-August, after his BMW Championship runner-up finish. His career-best ranking is No. 3.
How old is Patrick Cantlay?
He’s 34, born March 17, 1992, in Long Beach, California.
How tall is Patrick Cantlay?
6 feet even (1.83m), and he weighs around 190 lbs.
How many times has Patrick Cantlay won on the PGA Tour?
Eight times, plus one Korn Ferry Tour win, for nine professional victories total.
What is Patrick Cantlay’s career earnings total?
$63,828,854 in official PGA Tour prize money, current through the 2026 BMW Championship.
What is Patrick Cantlay’s best Masters finish?
A tie for ninth in 2019, three shots behind winner Tiger Woods.
Why does Patrick Cantlay play slow?
The Tour has never fined or penalized him publicly for pace of play. The reputation comes mainly from a handful of high-visibility moments, the 2023 Masters final round chief among them, rather than a documented pattern of rules violations.
Who is Patrick Cantlay’s caddie?
Joe LaCava, who has carried his bag since May 2023 and previously caddied for Tiger Woods and Fred Couples.
Has Patrick Cantlay ever won a major championship?
No. His best major finishes are a tie for third at the 2019 PGA Championship and the 2024 U.S. Open.
Where Cantlay’s Season Goes From Here
Cantlay heads into the TOUR Championship at East Lake on a genuine hot streak, three top-two finishes in his past six starts and a runner-up check that pulled him from 43rd to 19th in the FedExCup standings in a single week. He’s won at East Lake before, and he starts the week having already beaten most of the field there once. The top 30 also includes FedExCup leader Scottie Scheffler, so Cantlay isn’t just playing for a trophy, he’s playing catch-up in a race somebody else is currently winning. That’s the version of Cantlay worth watching this week, not the No Hat Pat headlines from two years ago.