KAPALUA, Hawaii — Patrick Cantlay is again to competitors for the primary time because the Ryder Cup, and the eye once more is on his hat.
Sure, he’s sporting one.
This cover incorporates a brand for the First Responders Kids’s Basis. Cantlay has a brand new partnership to lift consciousness and cash to assist first responder households throughout the nation.
It begins with a goal. Cantlay and the FRCF this week are launching a fundraising marketing campaign to assist first responder households impacted by the lethal wildfires throughout Hawaii in August, which obliterated a historic a part of Lahaina and killed 100 individuals.
The Sentry begins Thursday at Kapalua, about 10 miles from Lahaina.
From the partnership will come the Patrick Cantlay Scholarship, which can award four-year scholarships to a cohort of first responder kids who show enterprise acumen and aspire to develop into entrepreneurs. The scholarship program begins this fall.
When he started his basis, Cantlay needed the important thing beneficiaries to be junior golf and assist for first responders.
“Supporting first responders, their households and the communities they serve is essential to me,” Cantlay mentioned. “We sit up for spotlighting the very important contributions of first responders whereas additionally tending to the distinctive challenges that their kids and households expertise.”
First Responders Kids’s Basis was based greater than 22 years in the past in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist assaults wherein 800 kids misplaced a mother or father who was a primary responder. The inspiration has awarded 1,300 scholarships totaling greater than $3.8 million.
When final seen on the golf course, Cantlay got here below extreme scrutiny for not sporting a hat on the Ryder Cup. European followers at Marco Simone learn an unsubstantiated report that he went hatless to protest not getting paid to play.
Cantlay has denied the report by saying the hat didn’t match proper, declaring he didn’t put on one at Whistling Straits in 2021, both.
He added one different remark in a latest interview with Golf.com.
“If I used to be to make a protest, everybody would know what I’m protesting, why I’m protesting and the way I’m protesting,” Cantlay mentioned with a smile. “I might by no means, by no means do a silent protest.”
