NORTON, Mass. (AP) To consider all that Patrick Cantlay has gone through over the last two years puts the quality of his season in a different light, and it looks even stronger because of his limited schedule.

He is No. 41 in the FedEx Cup despite having played only 11 tournaments.

”If he had the full year this year, I would imagine he’d have been on the Presidents Cup team, no question,” said Jordan Spieth, who competed against Cantlay in college and played with him in the third round at the TPC Boston. ”He’s extremely talented, and he’s going to work his way up into the top 10 in the world, in my opinion.”

Cantlay first showed his promise on a big stage in 2011, right after his sophomore year at UCLA, when he was low amateur at the U.S. Open, shot 60 at the Travelers Championship and never finished out of the top 25 in the four PGA Tour events he played.

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NORTON, Mass. (AP) Justin Thomas is three months older than Jordan Spieth and trying to catch up.

It’s been that way for 10 years, ever since they met on the practice range before the final round of the Junior All-Star at Walnut Creek southwest of Dallas in the spring of 2007. They were 13 and tied for the lead after each opened with a 68 on the 6,385-yard course.

”I just remember he came up and introduced himself on the range because we were in the final group,” Thomas said. ”So I thought that was cool. And he beat me that day. I think I finished third, I don’t know, second. I didn’t play very well. That was the first time we met.”

It was a home game for Spieth, who grew up in Dallas. He made his American Junior Golf Association debut that week, shot 71 in the second round and won by five shots over Thomas and two others. Thomas, the son of a club pro in Kentucky, was so short back then he had to use a fairway metal to reach the longer par 4s.

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NORTON, Massachusetts (AP) Justin Thomas had an answer for everyone in the Dell Technologies Championship with just about every club.

He could tell from the cheers that Jordan Spieth was off to a good start. A glance at the leaderboard indicated it was better than he imagined – birdie-eagle-birdie. And then Thomas stood on the fourth tee and saw for himself.

Spieth rolled in a 4-foot birdie putt to go 5 under through four holes of the final round at the TPC Boston.

Concerned his driver would get up in the air and sail into trouble, Thomas hit a bullet with hopes it would roll into the bunker. It was better than that, flying fast into the shaggy collar atop the steep bunker and onto the fringe, where he rolled in a 30-foot eagle putt.

”That was a definitely a bonus,” Thomas said.

The game was on. That eagle allowed him to catch Spieth and Marc Leishman, and Thomas didn’t have to do much more on Monday.

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