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Cameron Young
Personal information
Full nameCameron David Young
Born (1997-05-07) May 7, 1997 (age 27)
Scarborough, New York, U.S.
Height5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight185 lb (84 kg)
Sporting nationality United States
ResidencePalm Beach Gardens, Florida, U.S.
Spouse
Kelsey Dalition
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(m. 2020)​
Children1
Career
CollegeWake Forest University
Turned professional2019
Current tour(s)PGA Tour
Former tour(s)Korn Ferry Tour
Professional wins4
Highest ranking13 (April 9, 2023)[1]
(as of November 10, 2024)
Number of wins by tour
Korn Ferry Tour2
Other2
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentT7: 2023
PGA ChampionshipT3: 2022
U.S. OpenT32: 2023
The Open Championship2nd: 2022
Achievements and awards
PGA Tour
Rookie of the Year		2021–22

Cameron Young (born May 7, 1997) is an American professional golfer. He has twice finished in the top three in major championships and has several other runner-up finishes on the PGA Tour. He has also won twice on the Korn Ferry Tour. He was voted PGA Tour Rookie of the Year for the 2021–22 season.

Early life

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Young was born in Scarborough, New York. His father David Young was the head professional at Sleepy Hollow Country Club in Westchester County, New York. His aunt was a teaching professional. He attended Fordham Preparatory School in The Bronx, where he was a member of the golf team.[2] He would later attend Wake Forest University, where he studied Economics, graduating in 2019.[3][4]

Amateur career

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In 2014, Young won the AJGA Polo Golf Junior Classic and was selected to represent the United States in both the Junior Ryder Cup and Junior Golf World Cup. In 2015, during his freshman year at Wake Forest, he won the individual title at the U.S. Collegiate Championship and the Warrior Princeville Makai Invitational; he also reached the second round of the U.S. Amateur, before being knocked out by Jon Rahm.[3] That year, he also became the youngest winner of the Metropolitan Golf Association's Ike Stroke Play Championship. He successfully defended the title in 2016.[5]

In 2017, Young became the first amateur to win the Metropolitan PGA's New York State Open, defeating Chris DeForest in a playoff; his 64 (7 under par) in the final round at Bethpage Black tied the course record, until Brooks Koepka shot a 63 in the first round of the 2019 PGA Championship.[6] In 2018, he won the Westchester Open.[7]

During his senior year at Wake Forest in 2019, Young won three tournaments, the General Hackler Invitational, the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational, and was the leading medallist in the Stitch Intercollegiate.[8][9]

Professional career

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Young Monday qualified for the Korn Ferry Tour's Pinnacle Bank Championship in late July 2020 and tied for 11th, giving him entry to the next event; a string of four finishes of 16th or better, culminating with a tie for second at the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship, earned him enough points to become a special temporary member for the rest of the 2020–21 season. Towards the end of May 2021, he won back-to-back tournaments. He finished the season 19th on the regular-season points list, earning a PGA Tour card for the 2021–22 season.

In February 2022, Young tied for second at the Genesis Invitational and rose into the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking. In May 2022, Young tied for third at the 2022 PGA Championship. In the 2022 Open Championship, he led the field after the first round with a bogey-free round of 64 (8 under par); in the final round, he eagled the last hole to finish one stroke behind the winner, Cameron Smith.[10] In September 2022, he was selected for the U.S. team in the 2022 Presidents Cup; he won one, tied one and lost two of the four matches he played.[11] With 94% of the vote, he won the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year (Arnold Palmer Award).[12]

In March 2023, Young changed caddies, employing Paul Tesori, who had most recently worked with Webb Simpson. In their first tournament together, Young was runner-up in the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play; he was defeated 6 and 5 by Sam Burns in the final.[13] The following month he finished in a tie for seventh at the Masters Tournament.

In the third round of the 2024 Travelers Championship, Young shot a 59, which was just the 13th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history.[14]

Media appearances

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Young appeared in the sports documentary series Full Swing, which premiered on Netflix on February 15, 2023.[15]

Amateur wins

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  • 2015 U.S. Collegiate Championship, Warrior Princeville Makai Invitational, MGA Ike Stroke Play Championship
  • 2016 MGA Ike Stroke Play Championship
  • 2019 General Hackler Invitational, Augusta Haskins Award Invitational, Stitch Intercollegiate (medallist)

Professional wins (4)

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Korn Ferry Tour wins (2)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 May 23, 2021 AdventHealth Championship 64-69-68-68=269 −19 2 strokes South Africa Dawie van der Walt
2 May 30, 2021 Evans Scholars Invitational 64-68-67-67=266 −18 5 strokes Canada Adam Svensson

Other wins (2)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 Jul 20, 2017 Lenox Advisors New York State Open
(as an amateur) 		70-70-64=204 −9 Playoff United States Chris DeForest
2 Jul 10, 2018 Westchester Open
(as an amateur) 		63-70-65=198 −12 7 strokes United States David Pastore

Other playoff record (1–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2017 Lenox Advisors New York State Open
(as an amateur) 		United States Chris DeForest Won with birdie on second extra hole

Results in major championships

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Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Masters Tournament CUT T7 T9
PGA Championship T3 CUT T63
U.S. Open CUT CUT CUT T32 T67
The Open Championship NT 2 T8 T31
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = no tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Summary

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Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Masters Tournament 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 2
PGA Championship 0 0 1 1 1 1 3 2
U.S. Open 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2
The Open Championship 0 1 0 1 2 2 3 3
Totals 0 1 1 2 5 5 14 9
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 6 (2023 U.S. Open – 2024 Open Championship, current)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (twice)

Results in The Players Championship

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Tournament 2022 2023 2024
The Players Championship CUT T51 T54

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

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Tournament 2022 2023
Match Play T35 2
Champions NT1

1Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  Top 10

"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament
Note that the Champions was discontinued from 2023.

U.S. national team appearances

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Amateur

Professional

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Week 14 2023 Ending 9 Apr 2023" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
  2. ^ "Follow Cameron Young '15 in his First Appearance at The Masters". Fordham Preparatory School. April 7, 2022. Retrieved July 24, 2024.
  3. ^ a b Tremlett, Sam (May 21, 2022). "10 Things You Didn't Know About Cameron Young". Golf Monthly. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  4. ^ Tremlett, Sam (July 23, 2023). "20 Things You Didn't Know About Cameron Young". Golf Monthly. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
  5. ^ Donelson, Dave (July 5, 2016). "Cameron Young Wins MGA Ike Again". Westchester Magazine. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  6. ^ "Cameron Young the First Am to Win the New York State Open". amateurgolf. July 20, 2017.
  7. ^ Dougherty, Mike (July 10, 2018). "Cameron Young slams the door, wins the Westchester Open by seven". The Journal News. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  8. ^ "2018–19 Men's Golf Roster | Cameron Young". Wake Forest University Athletics. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  9. ^ "Cameron Young". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  10. ^ Miceli, Alex (July 17, 2022). "Cameron Young Did All He Could With a Sunday 65 at St. Andrews, But His Partner Shot 64". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  11. ^ Beall, Joel (September 25, 2022). "Presidents Cup 2022: Our grades for all 24 players, from an A+ for Spieth to an F for Scheffler". Golf Digest. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  12. ^ Schlabach, Mark (October 19, 2022). "Cameron Young earns Arnold Palmer Award as PGA Tour's top rookie". ESPN.
  13. ^ Ryan, Shane (March 26, 2023). "Sam Burns captures WGC-Dell Match Play in rout as PGA Tour says goodbye to Austin". Golf Digest. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
  14. ^ "Cameron Young posts 59 at Travelers Championship for first sub-60 round on PGA Tour in 4 years". Associated Press News. June 22, 2024. Retrieved June 22, 2024.
  15. ^ "Tee Up for 'Full Swing,' the Golf Documentary Series That Drives Plenty of Drama". Netflix Tudum. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
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