Patrick Cantlay not willing to take the blame after Brooks Koepka's slow play criticism

Koepka made the comment during his post-round press conference after finishing as a co-runner-up to Jon Rahm.

Cantlay and Hovland were playing just ahead of Koepka and Rahm, and social media videos showed Cantlay taking his time on the course, including one where Hovland had already started chipping while Cantlay and his caddie were still walking. Another video showed Koepka and Rahm waiting on the tee while Cantlay putted.

"The group in front of us was brutally slow," Koepka said. "Jon went to the bathroom like seven times during the round, and we were still waiting."

While he never directly accused Cantlay of the slow play, it's pretty clear who the target of his ire was, as only Cantlay and Hovland were in the group ahead of him, and it's pretty clear Hovland was doing his best to speed things up.

However, Cantlay refuses to accept any responsibility for the slow pace of play. According to him, slow play was a problem for everyone.

"Yeah, I mean, we finished the first hole, and the group in front of us was on the second tee when we walked up to the second tee, and we waited all day on pretty much every shot," he said Tuesday at Harbour Town, site of this week's RBC Heritage.

"We waited in 15 fairway, we waited in 18 fairway. I imagine it was slow for everyone."

"When you play a golf course like Augusta National where all the hole locations are on lots of slope and the greens are really fast, it's going to take longer and longer to hole out," Cantlay added.

"I think that may have been what attributed to some of the slow play on Sunday, and then also when the wind is gusting and the wind is blowing maybe inconsistently, that's when guys will take a long time, too. I think it's just the nature of playing professional golf, where every shot matters so much."