Reed and Cantlay Return as a Team in the 2018 Zurich Classic of New Orleans
He and Duval have played as a team before , when they won the Feed Meyer Challenge in 1998 .
He has played a limited schedule this season but took a seventh in the Valspar Championship . He last played the Zurich Classic in 1996 , when he finished tied for 27th .
Furyk has been a mainstay for years on American national teams , with seven appearances in the Presidents Cup and nine in the Ryder Cup . His nine Ryder Cup competitions are second all-time among American players .
Until last season , Furyk qualified for every FedExCup playoff series since the competition began .
Duval , now primarily a broadcaster on the Golf Channel , claimed 13 PGA TOUR victories , including The Open Championship in 2001 and the TOUR Championship in 1997 . He was ranked number one in the world for 15 weeks in 1999 .
His father Bob played on the Champions Tour , and both father and son won their respective tournaments on the same day in 1999 .
Duval ’ s last appearance in the Zurich Classic came in 2014 , when he finished a season-best 25th .
He is also a veteran of team play , with four Ryder Cups , three Presidents Cups , two World Cups , two World Amateur Team Championships and one Walker Cup .
At Georgia Tech , Duval was named 1993 Collegiate Player of the Year . He is one of only four collegiate players to earn Division I first team All-American status four times . He also won the U . S . Junior Amateur in 1989 .
Reed and Cantlay Return as a Team in the 2018 Zurich Classic of New Orleans
Two Patricks — Reed and Cantlay — are returning as a team to the 2018 Zurich Classic of New Orleans after finishing 14th last year , announced Steve Worthy , CEO of the Fore ! Kids Foundation , producer of the tournament .
Tony Finau and Daniel Summerhays will also renew their pairing from last year ’ s tournament , the first played under the new team format , announced Worthy .
“ Patrick Reed is known for his remarkable record and intensity in team golf , and has been a US Ryder Cup hero ,” said Worthy . “ He and his partner Patrick Cantlay successfully put their team play experience to good use in last year ’ s Zurich Classic and they should be a very tough team ,” Worthy added .
Reed is currently ranked 23rd in the world . In the 2016 Ryder Cup , he went head-to-head with Rory McIlroy in one of the most thrilling matches in Ryder Cup history , eventually making birdie on 18 for a 1-up victory . Reed ’ s overall record in his two Ryder Cup events is 6-1-2 . He and Jordan Spieth were the only Americans to play all five matches in 2016 at Hazeltine .
Reed won two Louisiana high school state championships at University High of Baton Rouge , then two NCAA championships at Augusta State when he went 6-0 in match play in his two years .
Reed has won five times on the PGA TOUR , joining Spieth ( 21 ) and Rory McIlroy ( 23 ) as youngest winners with five TOUR titles in the last 10 years . His best finishes this season have been a tie for second at the Valspar Championship and a tie for seventh at the Arnold Palmer Invitational .
In his first year on the PGA TOUR , as a Monday qualifier he finished 24th in the 2011 Zurich Classic .
Cantlay , who missed all of 2016 due to injury , earned his PGA TOUR card in 2017 with a second place in the Valspar Championship and picked up his first victory on the PGA TOUR at the 2018 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open . In addition to his maiden win , he also rang up a tie for fourth in this season ’ s Genesis Open , where he held the 18- and 36-hole lead . He currently ranks 13th in FedExCup points and 34th in the world .
He posted a storied amateur career highlighted by being named the winner of the Fred Haskins Award in 2011 as the nation ’ s top collegiate player as well as the Jack Nicklaus Award as the Division I Player of the Year — as a freshman . He was also that year named an All-American at UCLA plus PAC-10 Golfer of the Year and Freshman of the Year .
He played on the 2011 Walker Cup team , where he went 2-1-1 . Later that year he posted a round of 10-under-par 60 in the Traveler ’ s Championship , becoming the first amateur in the history of the PGA TOUR to score 60 or better .
Finau and Summerhays are both natives and residents of Utah and return as a team to the 2018 Zurich Classic .
Finau is ranked 33rd in the world on the strength of a second place in the Safeway and Genesis Opens and a tie for sixth in the Farmers Insurance Open this season .
He has one PGA TOUR victory on his record , the 2016 Puerto Rico Open . He turned professional right out of high school at 17 , and since he joined the PGA TOUR fulltime in 2015 has never earned less than $ 1.8 million in any season . Last year he recorded eight top 10 finishes to hit his personal best earnings of $ 2.8 million .
Summerhays comes from a golf family . His older brother Boyd is a past PGA TOUR member , his uncle Bruce Summerhays plays on the Champions Tour and his cousin Carrie Roberts is a former LPGA player who is now the head women ’ s golf coach at BYU .
His best finish at the Zurich Classic was a tie for 21st in 2014 .
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