{"id":721808,"date":"2026-07-31T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721808\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:30:15","slug":"rocket-classic-cameron-young-surges-into-lead-with-matt-wallace-in-contention-after-second-round-in-detroit-golf-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721808\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Classic: Cameron Young surges into lead with Matt Wallace in contention after second round in Detroit | Golf News"},"content":{"rendered":"

World No 3 Cameron Young surged into a share of the lead of the Rocket Classic after a nine-under 61 in the second round in Detroit.<\/p>\n

Young climbed 68 spots to move to 10 under with his bogey-free round and shares a three-way lead with Patrick Cantlay and Patrick Fishburn.<\/p>\n

The two-time Open runner-up made seven birdies on his front nine and threatened to become just the second player, after Jim Furyk, to shoot two career sub-60 rounds.<\/p>\n

“It felt like I had a 10-footer for birdie on pretty much every hole. I made a bunch of them in a row on my first nine,” said Young.<\/p>\n

“Then the putter kind of went cold a little bit for my second nine. Just really solid golf all the way through. Happy to have kind of played my way back in the tournament a little bit after Thursday.”<\/p>\n

Young is now favourite heading into the weekend and will look to continue his great recent form that saw him finish runner-up at The Open two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

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\n Cameron Young is in the joint lead at the halfway point of the Rocket Classic (AP Photo\/Jose Juarez)<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old won The Players Championship and Cadillac Championship earlier this year but has not been able to put together a string of strong results.<\/p>\n

“You wonder am I missing something, why is this the way that it is, why is it not working, all those things. But when it goes well, it feels totally the opposite,” said Young.<\/p>\n

“When it goes well, it feels like you never will play bad again. It just comes and goes. You kind of have to be ready for either one.<\/p>\n

“At some point it’s going to get harder and at some point you’ll come out of that difficult period and it will feel easy again. It’s kind of just a game of being ready for whatever comes next.”<\/p>\n

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Young will fancy his chances against Cantlay and Fishburn but there are 17 other players within three shots of the lead.<\/p>\n

England’s Matt Wallace is only one shot behind after his bogey-free round of 64 and Rickie Fowler is on the same overall score of nine under.<\/p>\n

First-round leader Peter Malnati was unable to repeat his heroics from Thursday as he made one-over 71 but is one of eight players only two shots back, including two-time major champion Xander Schauffele.<\/p>\n

Watch the third round of the Rocket Classic on Saturday from 7pm, live on Sky Sports Golf. Get Sky Sports<\/a> or stream golf with no contract<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No 3 Cameron Young surged into a share of the lead of the Rocket Classic after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}