FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Patrick Cantlay, often better at asking questions than giving answers, had one question as he walked up the final hole at Marco Simone two years ago at the Ryder Cup.

Why is everyone waving their hats ?

“I knew they were yelling at me,” Cantlay recalled in a recent interview. “I couldn't make out what they were saying. I didn't know anything about the false media story until I was finished playing. I had no idea what was happening. I just knew it was happening.”

The story to which he referred was a report based on anonymous sources by Sky Sports that Cantlay chose not to wear a hat during the Ryder Cup in Rome out of protest for not getting paid. “That's the furthest thing from the truth,” Cantlay said that day.

Lost in the hat-waving was the performance. Can

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