To say that Cameron Young’s maiden win on the PGA Tour was a long time coming would be an understatement.
Young had finished second on the PGA Tour seven times before he teed it up at the Wyndham Championship in 2025. That run included a runner-up finish at The Open Championship back in 2022.
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The 28-year-old went on to win by six shots at Sedgefield. It was the victory that made it nearly impossible for Keegan Bradley to overlook Young for his Ryder Cup team.
And Young proved to be a revelation at Bethpage, winning three of his four matches. He also led the team out for the Sunday singles.
The change in Cameron Young since his first PGA Tour victory
He has kicked on again this year. Young has now won The Players Championship and the Cadillac Championship. The latter event saw him finish six shots clear of Scottie Scheffler at Doral.
It was an emphatic performance that confirmed Young’s place in the conversation over the best player on the planet right now. And speaking on the Golf Channel Podcast, Ryan Lavner outlined the difference he has seen in Young since that first win last year.
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“What I’m noticing is a difference in attitude and the comfort that he has in these positions. Keep in mind, when he won that Wyndham Championship for his first PGA Tour win, and the floodgates seemed to open, he dusted the field by six shots. He was trying to learn how to win for the first time. And he didn’t just win, he won in dominating fashion,” he said.
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“You look at what happened at The Players Championship, it was entirely different where he just hung around, let others make mistakes, he hit a great shot on the 71st hole of the golf tournament, hit the drive of his life on the 72nd hole of the golf tournament and won with a par. This, I think, was a tour de force and just sent a signal to the Rory’s and certainly the Scottie’s of the world because Cam Young played with Scottie for three of these first four rounds that ‘when I’m at this top gear, I’m incredibly difficult to beat’.
“Cameron Young shoots 64 in the opening round. He leads at the halfway point by five shots. He leads at the 54-hole mark by six shots. And on Sunday you mentioned it was 15 minutes of maybe a little bit of intrigue, I’m not even sure it was 15 minutes. Maybe when the ball moved and he had to take a penalty and ended up making a par, that was it. That was a three or four minute span for Cameron Young.
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“He was never seriously threatened on a golf course where there’s a lot of trouble. There’s a lot of hazards. There’s a lot of water. We saw the sand and getting plugged lies all over the place. The wind picked up in advance of the storm. Everything could have happened, and Cameron Young was never seriously challenged while playing with the world number one alongside him. From an attitude standpoint, I’m seeing an incredible shift from Cameron Young over the past couple of months.”
The next challenge for Cameron Young after two statement victories
Winning at TPC Sawgrass and Doral surely confirms that Young has the ideal game to go on and become a major champion in the not so distant future.
In fact, his record in the majors is extremely impressive already. Young has finished in the top three at three of the four majors.
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Young has one less top 10 in the majors than Tommy Fleetwood. The Englishman is widely considered the best player without a major win in the current game, and he has played in nearly twice as many as Young.
While it is going to be asking a lot of Young to expect him to contend at the PGA Championship when he is playing three weeks in a row, it should come as no surprise if he wins one of the game’s biggest prizes before too long.
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