LOS ANGELES – Patrick Cantlay is missing next week’s WGC-Mexico Championship to have surgery to correct a deviated septum.
Cantlay first underwent the procedure in November 2018 but said that another surgery is required to “clean it up a little bit.”
“It’s hard to sleep,” he said Saturday at Riviera. “Tough to get to sleep. Tough to stay asleep.”
The septum is the bone and cartilage that divides the two nostrils in the nose, and surgery is the only way to promote better airflow.
Cantlay expects to fully recover in a few weeks. The Players Championship begins in four weeks, though Cantlay wasn’t exactly sure when he’d return to competition.