OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. – With the PGA Tour season winding down, players are already looking ahead to the fall.
The Tour is returning to a calendar-year schedule next year for the first time since 2012, allowing players – if they so choose – to take some time off later this year. That hasn’t been the case during the wraparound era, with even some of the top players feeling as though they needed to log at least a start or two in the fall (typically, no-cut events with guaranteed points) to ensure they didn’t fall too far behind in the FedExCup standings.
That competitive reality hasn’t much bothered Patrick Cantlay, nor has it hurt him. He didn’t play a regular Tour event in the fall of 2021, and yet he still ranked second in points heading into the season finale at East Lake. This season, his only fall start was a playoff loss in Vegas, and here he…