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<\/a><\/p>\nSome saw him as the master of the near-miss, having accumulated seven runner-up finishes without a win, the most on tour since 1983. But the numbers obscured the reality.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not as if Young piled up those seven runner-up finishes by stumbling in on Sundays. He shot 65 in the final round of the 2022 Open Championship at the Old Course to push Cam Smith to beat him.<\/p>\n
Young shot 70 in the final round of the Genesis Invitational at Riviera in 2022, signed for 66 on Sunday at the \u201922 Wells Fargo Championship and 68 on Sunday in the Rocket Mortgage Classic that same year.<\/p>\n
Each time, one player was a little bit better. It eased the sting but didn\u2019t eliminate it.<\/p>\n
Over time, Young made peace with his prolonged chase to land a championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not like a burden that I hadn\u2019t won, it\u2019s just something that I hadn\u2019t done and I\u2019d like to. At times it hurts to have played some really good golf and not had that happen, but in all those cases there were really no times that I had it in my hands and lost,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s different I think than having a burden. It wasn\u2019t really like that. It was more just, you know, when is it going to be my time here because it just felt like a lot of those tournaments weren\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Young put his heavy-handed stamp on the Wyndham Championship in the first two rounds, shooting 63-62 to force everyone else to chase him. By Saturday evening, Young led by five and a sense of inevitability had settled over Sedgefield.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, he\u2019s already played a Presidents Cup, he almost made a Ryder Cup in Rome. And I think he has a very high ceiling. He\u2019s long. Now he\u2019s 10th in putting this year so I think this will be one of those situations where \u2026 he\u2019ll be a guy we\u2019re talking about for 10 or 15 years.\u201d \u2013 Webb Simpson<\/p>\n
A choppy bogey at the first hole Sunday sent a flicker of uncertainty across the property but it disappeared under an avalanche of birdies \u2013 five in a row starting at the second hole \u2013 that briefly stretched Young\u2019s advantage to nine strokes.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how good Young was: He played the front nine in a combined 18-under par, posting a pair of 30s and a pair of 31s, strong-arming the old-school layout.<\/p>\n
Technically, two things made the difference. In the week before the Wyndham Championship, Young decided to build his ball-striking around a draw, committing to it even if pins were tucked on the right side of greens.<\/p>\n
It gave him a clarity of purpose, at least for one week.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now that seems to be a good way to do it,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n
Young also putted like an angel. Last year, Young ranked 145th in strokes gained putting. This year, he is 10th and at Sedgefield he was first.<\/p>\n
Young played his college golf at nearby Wake Forest, where he was a teammate of Will Zalatoris and both arrived on tour with great expectations.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s one of those players, he\u2019s unique in the sense everyone knew how good he was. There\u2019s plenty of guys who we think are good enough to win, but you\u2019re still not sure until you do it. He was a little different knowing, like we knew, everyone knew how good he was,\u201d Webb Simpson, another former Wake Forest golfer, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, he\u2019s already played a Presidents Cup, he almost made a Ryder Cup in Rome. And I think he has a very high ceiling. He\u2019s long. Now he\u2019s 10th in putting this year so I think this will be one of those situations where \u2026 he\u2019ll be a guy we\u2019re talking about for 10 or 15 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Young, at age 28, has broken through. Johnnie Izquierdo, Getty Images<\/p>\n
Part of the grill room chatter about Young\u2019s current Ryder Cup candidacy already centers on his New York upbringing, suggesting that Young might be just what captain Keegan Bradley and his crew at Bethpage Black can use because of where he was raised.<\/p>\n
That mistakenly supposes that Young is a product of the city streets, a notion he humorously shot down a few years ago. He attended a private school on the Fordham University campus and grew up at Sleepy Hollow Country Club, one of those wealthy golf enclaves outside the city.<\/p>\n
Young did ride the train to school but he didn\u2019t grow up playing stickball in the streets.<\/p>\n
As one of Bradley\u2019s Ryder Cup vice captains, Simpson was asked what message he would deliver Sunday evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cMan, I mean, Cam\u2019s a New Yorker, I know he loves that golf course. Anytime you\u2019re about to win by 10, you\u2019ve got to talk about him,\u201d Simpson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd he certainly has the right game for that golf course. He\u2019s just adding his name to the list of many guys that are hard for us to say no to.\u201d<\/p>\n
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After seven second-place showings on the PGA Tour, Cameron Young finally finishes on top. Johnnie Izquierdo, Getty Images<\/p>\n