Extra intriguing is the battle for the ten PGA Tour playing cards on supply to these not already exempt for the US circuit. And Canter is within the combine for that.
That in itself is outstanding provided that just below a yr in the past, the 35-year-old Englishman was rueing lacking a five-foot putt that introduced into query the way forward for his enjoying profession.
He had wanted that putt on the LIV Golf Promotions occasion in Abu Dhabi to retain a spot on the profitable breakaway tour.
Canter had performed 19 of their occasions, however collaborating in these tournaments jeopardised his standing on the DP World Tour. His failure on the Promotions competitors piled up stress to benefit from no matter begins he may subsequently get.
So when the possibility got here he leapt at a last-minute alternative to play final December’s Mauritius Open. Canter completed second to Louis Oosthuizen and his profession was again on observe.
Inside six months he turned a DP World Tour winner for the primary time and now he’s one good week away from securing a card on the PGA Tour for subsequent yr.
“If I’d received my LIV card I wouldn’t have performed the next week on the DP World Tour,” Canter advised BBC Sport. “And that week in Mauritius arrange my complete yr.
“It received me factors that enabled me to play increasingly more by way of the spring and summer season and finally the occasion I gained on the European Open.
“It’s a type of moments in life, a door closes and one other opened up and I’m actually grateful that it did.”
When Canter booked that runner-up spot on the finish of final yr he was ranked a lowly 253 on this planet. By the point he gained in Hamburg in June he had already performed sufficient to safe his DP World Tour card for subsequent yr.
“I used to be enjoying with all the pieces on the road [in Mauritius],” he added. “It might have been a extremely quiet yr when it comes to the place I had eligibility to play.
“When you find yourself doing all of your schedule originally of the yr with a full card you’re choosing the 20, 22 or 24 weeks you wish to play.
“Its a really completely different really feel when you get an electronic mail from the entries division saying we’ve had three individuals pull out, you’re within the area and we’d like you to get to Mauritius tomorrow, which is sort of the place I used to be at.”
Now he lies twenty fifth within the Race to Dubai, simply 324 factors behind fellow Bathtub professional Jordan Smith, who in seventeenth place holds the final of the ten spots accessible for PGA Tour playing cards subsequent yr.
Canter accepts he wants “a extremely good week” to safe a spot on the elite American circuit, however it’s inside his grasp.
Had been he to do it, he must wait till February to be eligible to play due to guidelines forbidding golfers from competing in PGA Tour occasions inside a yr of enjoying unsanctioned tournaments.
“It looks like an odd coverage [but] that is their guidelines,” conceded Canter, who was not a PGA Tour member when he performed his final LIV occasion.
Having performed on each side of what has been a divisive fence, he stated “everybody understands the necessity for some degree of cooperation for golf to prosper for followers” with “three of 4 excursions splitting up the highest gamers on this planet”.
Nevertheless, he believes it has “performed superb issues for main championship golf”.
“The majors have grow to be much more essential, which I’d argue is an efficient factor,” he added.
Canter says he feels lucky for the best way his profession has panned out since lacking the chance to cement his future on LIV.
“I take advantage of the phrase fortunate as a result of I do suppose the timing of while you play nicely in your profession may be essential,” he stated.
“It doesn’t at all times work if you find yourself feeling your finest and hitting the ball the most effective.
“In the end you do want parts of luck and for me to play that nicely at the moment of this season was fortunate.
“Within the scope of a golfer’s profession there are such a lot of peaks and troughs and it labored out for me this yr.”
The height got here in Germany along with his three-shot win.
“It’s genuinely exhausting to place into phrases,” Canter mirrored. “It’s nonetheless a degree of satisfaction that I really feel remains to be sinking in as a result of it’s one thing I coveted and needed to do for ever.”
“I nonetheless really feel happy by it and clearly you’d similar to to go and do it once more, as a result of that’s what we’re like.”
“However I’m happy with successful that event and will probably be eternally and that may be a particular feeling.”
Canter heads into the ultimate lap of the DP World Tour season this week with loads of optimism. In 2020 he practically broke by way of when he performed within the ultimate group right here with eventual champion Matt Fitzpatrick.
“Since my win I’ve performed some strong golf,” Canter stated. “I like this golf course, it fits my eye so I really feel like I may have a very good week and have a very good run. I might like to.”
