On Sunday it came for a long time for Cameron Young.
The long -bombed American had contrary several times since he had broken on stage in 2022. Wyndham championshipYoung had seven number two, including at the Open Championship 2022 in St. Andrews. That seven second place was the most by every player on tour without a victory since 1983. The second place of Young was not the product of Sunday errors in its end; For the most part, he had just been defeated by a better round.
Yet that first victory turned out to be elusive for a man with all the talent to live consistently in the top 10 in the world.
Young struggled to start this season, but found shape on the Truist Championship, where he finished T7. Back-to-back T4 ends at the RBC Canadian Open and US Open came in June, but Young arrived at the regular season-ending Wyndham Championship Fresh of a missed cut and still looking for his first victory.
Teeing it Up In his adopted back garden jong in Wake Forest at the University of the 28-year-old Blitzed Sedgefield Country Club with a combination of power and a hot putter. Young took a lead of three shots at the weekend. That grew until five after the third round of Saturday, and his lead extended to nine halfway through Sunday after he five holes in a row near the start of his round bird. With everyone who fought for second place and concentrated in place in the rankings of the FedEx Cup, Young was able to go to a six-shot victory on Mac Meissner. Young shot rounds of 63, 62, 65 and 68 to finish the week at 22 under par and to celebrate his first victory with his father.
“I’ve been waiting for it for a while,” Young told Amanda Balionis of CBS after the victory. “I never thought I would be so emotional about it. But it is the end of my fourth season. I had my chances, never all that way, and I wouldn’t let it get away from me today.”
After the victory, the gentle Young insisted that his search for win no. 1 had not weighed him. He had played good wave and lost many times. That is no reason to despair. You just have to pick yourself up and go again.
“It’s not like a burden I hadn’t won, it’s just something I didn’t do and I would like to,” said Young. “Sometimes it hurts to have played a bit of good wave and did not let that happen, but in all those cases there were really no times when I had it in my hands and lost. So it is otherwise I think it was a burden. It wasn’t really. It was more normal, you know it would be my time here, because it just felt my time like a lot of those tournaments are not.
“No trouble in the traditional sense. Today there was a different situation than I have ever been. You know, it was our goal today to come out and see how much I could win if I held on our plan.”
Young’s plan delivered a routine in Greensboro that was an example of how the man from Scarborough, New York, can overpower a course when he shoots all the cylinders. The combination of the dominant representation of Young, his skills and his history in the state of New York let everyone focus his attention from a Wyndham championship victory to another event that looms up in the distance.
What about the Ryder Cup?
With the victory in Greensboro, Young, who won the New York State Open on Bethpage Black in 2017, joins a busy list of Fringe candidates for Team USA, including Jordan Spieth, Sam Burns and Captain Keegan Bradley.
While Young finished his torch from Sedgefield on Sunday, two Ryder Cup assistant -captains, Webb Simpson and Gary Woodland handed over, the most urgent question of the day, which was considered a coronation of Young by CBS ‘Jim Nantz.
“Man, I mean, Cam is a New Yorker, I know he loves that golf course,” said Simpson, who is close to Young. “Every time you are about to win 10, you have to talk about him. And he certainly has the right game for that golf course. He simply adds his name to the list of many boys who are difficult for us to say no.”
Woodland added: “I mean, the way he drives the golf ball, his statistics are really good this year. Cam has a lot of talent and when you can bring a lot of talent, it helps everyone. I am happy for him. As I said, I think it’s just the start for him.”
On Saturday, 24 hours before he finally became a PGA Tour champion, Young spoke about signed and frustrated by the Ryder Cup process of 2023 that saw him the highest player on the point list (ninth) to stay out of the team. His goals for the year can be reduced to two things – win and make the Ryder Cup team.
“I think that location is in the first place one of my favorite golf courses in the world,” said Young of the guest site, Bethpage Black. “I have many good memories that the New York State will open and I am sure that a New York crowd would be, at least I hope to a certain extent. So yes, that has been a goal all year round. I just try to take all the little things that happens daily as it comes to me – to see myself in that team.
“Set up the year to give our captain not a choice, and I don’t know if I am or not, but it would cost really good wave between now and then. But if I am in question, it would have been a big goal of me and I would like to place myself there.”
Young played really good wave in North Carolina last week. He has the power and improved to be a weapon for Team USA in September. At the very least, the sizzling game of Young Bradley’s hanging decisions made it much more difficult if the captain tries to collect the best 12-man team to protect home at Bethpage Black.
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Josh Schrock is a writer and reporter for Golf.com. Before he came to Golf, Josh was the Chicago Bears Insider for NBC Sports Chicago. He previously covered the 49ers and Warriors for NBC Sports Bay Area. A native Oregonian and UO-Aluin, Josh spends his free time walking with his wife and dog, to think about how the ducks will break his heart again and try to become a semi-profit in Chipping. Josh, a real romantic for golf, will never stop breaking 90 and never losing the confidence that the great drought of Rory McIlroy will end (updated: he did it). Josh Schrock can be reached at josh.schrock@golf.com.
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