{"id":622230,"date":"2026-05-04T03:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622230\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T03:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:54:10","slug":"with-trump-watching-in-doral-cameron-young-finishes-off-wire-to-wire-cadillac-championship-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622230\/","title":{"rendered":"With Trump watching in Doral, Cameron Young finishes off wire-to-wire Cadillac Championship win"},"content":{"rendered":"

DORAL, Fla. \u2014 The only person who gave Cameron Young any trouble on Sunday was, well, Cameron Young.<\/p>\n

He called a one-stroke penalty on himself while playing the par-4 second hole<\/a>, after he caused his ball to move in the fairway. And then he made par anyway.<\/p>\n

It was that sort of week: Young was unflappable and unbeatable. He went wire-to-wire alone on the lead at the Cadillac Championship<\/a>, a final round of 4-under 68 getting him to 19 under for the week and six shots clear of world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (68).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the golf course is difficult, when the conditions are difficult, that tends to make it easier for me mentally,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n

With President Donald Trump in place to watch most of the round at Trump National Doral, Young picked up $3.6 million for the second-biggest payday of his career. He made $4.5 million earlier this year for winning The Players Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump arrived with several members of his family \u2014 including granddaughter Kai Trump<\/a>, who plans to play at the University of Miami when she enrolls later this year \u2014 shortly after noon and remained until the tournament was over. He stood for the ovation as Young walked up the 18th hole, as a number of fans in attendance were allowed to move into the fairway for a look at the final putts of the week.<\/p>\n

A bit more than an inch of rain fell on the course in the early morning hours Sunday, delaying a planned 7:30 a.m. start (which had already been rescheduled Saturday in anticipation of bad weather<\/a>) to the final round by two hours. And the Blue Monster was no longer a monster, not with everything softened by the rain.<\/p>\n

The average scores in the first three rounds were between 71 and 71.6. The average score Sunday, with preferred lies, was 69. There were nine birdies \u2014 total \u2014 on the par 18th in the first three rounds and 12 at the finishing hole on Sunday alone.<\/p>\n

Scheffler finished second for the third consecutive start, after finishing a shot behind Rory McIlroy at the Masters and losing a playoff to Matt Fitzpatrick at Hilton Head<\/a>. Those were near-misses; this one wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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Matt Fitzpatrick and Cameron Young seem set to tussle for No. 3 in the Official World Golf Ranking this month. Here\u2019s who the preferred favorite in the early 2026 PGA Championship odds.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how good Young was. Even the best player in the world never had a real chance on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Young called the violation on himself with his ball in the middle of the fairway on the second hole \u2014 it moved at address, something he said has happened to him before \u2014 and said he didn\u2019t hesitate to do the right thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour heart sinks when you see it move,\u201d Young said. \u201cBut it moved. That\u2019s part of what golf\u2019s about. There\u2019s no one who\u2019s going to give me a penalty there but myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Did Cameron Young\u2019s actions cause the ball to move? A one-stroke penalty on the second hole at Doral will be debated but Young was honest about what happened and walked away without any damage.<\/p>\n

Ben Griffin (68) was third at 12 under, while Si Woo Kim (70), Sepp Straka (66) and Adam Scott (64) tied for fourth at 11 under.<\/p>\n

Scott likely clinched a spot in the U.S. Open \u2014 which would be his 100th consecutive major start, assuming he starts in the PGA Championship later this month \u2014 after shooting 66-64 on the weekend. Scott finished at 11 under, meaning he should remain comfortably inside the top 60 in the world ranking and qualify for the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo win a major I\u2019m going to need to put four days together, not just a weekend coming from behind,\u201d said Scott, who was the winner of the World Golf Championships Cadillac Championship \u2014 until this week, the most recent PGA Tour event at Doral \u2014 in 2016. \u201cI feel like my game is there. I\u2019m doing all the things that I think I need to do to be in that kind of contention.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DORAL, Fla. \u2014 The only person who gave Cameron Young any trouble on Sunday was, well, Cameron Young.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-622230","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\/622230","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=622230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}