Tommy Fleetwood\u2019s and Russell Henley\u2019s 36-hole lead<\/a> at the season-ending Tour Championship. If Young comes from behind for the victory, not only will he claim his second Tour win, but he\u2019ll also be the season-long FedEx Cup champion and secure a hefty payday.\u00a0<\/p>\nBut one more accolade will likely follow: a spot on the U.S. Ryder Cup team at Bethpage Black in New York, roughly an hour from where Young grew up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s at the forefront of Young\u2019s mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been saying for the last bunch of weeks now that my goals were get here [to the Tour Championship] and get there, to the Ryder Cup,\u201d Young said after a second-round 62 at East Lake. \u201cI\u2019ve done part one, and part two I think involves some good golf here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first six automatic qualifiers were finalized after last week\u2019s BMW Championship. And on Wednesday after the Tour Championship, U.S. captain Keegan Bradley will make his six captain\u2019s picks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Young is currently No. 14th on the U.S. Ryder Cup points list. That can be attributed to a slow start to the season, in which he had only two top 10s until June. Since then, though, he has five in eight starts, finishing first, fifth and 11th in his last three events.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He believes his recent run strengthens his case.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think recent form is kind of a hard one to deny,\u201d Young said. \u201cAside from that, it\u2019s my home state, it\u2019s a golf course I love. It\u2019s almost exclusively a major championship venue, and my major record is pretty good [six top 10s in 18 major starts]. I think there\u2019s a few points that if I had to make my case to him, those are things I\u2019d like him to know.\u201d<\/p>\n
It also helps that Young shot a course-record 64 in the final round of the 2017 Metropolitan Open at Bethpage Black, becoming the first amateur to win the event.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
And all that has Young on Bradley\u2019s radar. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been incredibly encouraging to me,\u201d Young said. \u201cHe\u2019s obviously watching everybody very closely, and he\u2019s been very kind to reach out and show some enthusiasm and some support when I\u2019ve played well.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut yeah, I know he\u2019s got a lot on his plate, so I don\u2019t expect a ton from him. But he\u2019s been very nice to me, and I appreciate any consideration he\u2019s given me to putting me on that team.\u201d<\/p>\n
First, however, Young has 36 more pressure-filled holes at East Lake to convince Bradley that he\u2019s worthy of a selection. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve just got to do my best to keep that up over the next couple days and see what I get out of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cam Young is playing what is perhaps the biggest weekend of his professional golf career.\u00a0 Three weeks ago,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-105545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}