Cantlay is ranked 4th in the world; Schauffele is 7th
AVONDALE — Patrick Cantlay, the 2021 FedExCup winner currently ranked fourth in the world, will pair with 2020 Olympic gold medal winner Xander Schauffele, ranked seventh, to defend their 2022 Zurich Classic title.
In the 2022 President Cup competition, both Cantlay and Schauffele posted 3-1 records for the winning American team. In the 2021 Ryder Cup, they won both matches when they were teamed together. Cantlay went undefeated in team play that year, halved his singles match and tied Collin Morikawa for second most points scored by an American player. Schauffele was 3-1 himself, losing only his singles match on Sunday.
The pair won last year’s Zurich Classic by two strokes over the team of Billy Horschel and LSU’s Sam Burns. Cantlay and Schauffele led after all four rounds of last year’s tournament. They posted a tournament record first-round score of 59 in four-ball (alternate shot) to set the pace and went into the last day of play five strokes ahead of the field.
Cantlay won the FedExCup in 2021 and earned the Jack Nicklaus Award as PGA TOUR Player of the Year on the strength of taking four titles in 2020-21: the ZOZO Championship, the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide, BMW Championship and the TOUR Championship.
Last season, he successfully defended the BMW Championship in the FedExCup Playoffs. In addition to his two wins in 2022, he also posted three seconds, a third and a total of 12 top 10 finishes, winning a career-best $9,369,605 for the season. Two of his second-place finishes were playoffs.
As an amateur, he posted a second-round 60 to take the lead in the Travelers Championship. His 60 was the first score that low by an amateur in PGA Tour history.
Schauffele has won seven times since joining the PGA Tour full time in 2017. He won the TOUR Championship his rookie year in 2017 and has since finished no worse than a tie for seventh in the season-ending tournament. He was the first rookie in the FedExCup era to win the TOUR Championship.
He was named PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 2017 and has made the Tour Championship every year since then.
In addition to his victory at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans last season, he also won the Travelers Championship and the Genesis Scottish Open.
In last year’s FedExCup Playoffs, he tied for third in the BMW Championship and placed fourth in the Tour Championship.
The Zurich Classic is the only team tournament on the PGA TOUR season. Since launching the team format in 2017, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans has drawn some of the highest-ranking fields for any regular-season tournament on the PGA TOUR. The tournament will be played April 20-23, 2023, at the TPC Louisiana. Purse for 2023 totals a record $8.6 million, with each member of the winning team earning $1,242,700.
Since 1958, the Fore!Kids Foundation has raised money to fund children’s service organizations through golf events like the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, The Holiday Auction Fore!Kids and several charitable golf tournaments. In 2022, the Fore!Kids Foundation generated an all-time record $2.7 million in charitable giving for children’s charities in the New Orleans and Baton Rouge metro areas.
For more information about this year’s Zurich Classic visit:
www.zurichgolfclassic.com.
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