He's long been near the top of everyone's list of "The best golfer who has yet to win on the PGA Tour" but maybe this is the week Cameron Young wins.
He's long been near the top of everyone's list of "The best golfer who has yet to win on the PGA Tour," but maybe this is the week he finally breaks through.
Cameron Young caught fire late in his first round at the 2025 Wyndham Championship, his online scorecard on pgatour.com lighting up with those little fireball icons as he birdied six of his last seven holes, including five straight on Nos. 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18. His birdie at the last came by way of his wedge. After he missed the green to the right, he chipped in for a 3.
Young signed for a 7-under 63 on Thursday at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, his best score in 2025 by two shots in his now 68 rounds on Tour this season. In those rounds, he's only shot in the 60s a total of 25 times.
To dig a little deeper, after opening his year with five straight rounds in the 60s, he only managed 20 more sub-70 scores over his next 63 rounds. He has had a stretch in 2025 where he went 18 straight rounds without breaking 70, including an 82 in the opening round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational and an 81 in the third round of the Players Championship.
But enough drilling into Young's season. His Thursday 63 at the Wyndham was a work of art, although he downplayed his smoking-hot finish.
"To be honest, nothing really clicked, the ball just kind of started going in a little bit," he said. "I started off the day totally the opposite end of that spectrum. I hit it close a few times and missed a few. I think it kind of just evened out and happened to end up looking dramatic on the scorecard, but it wasn't much of a difference really throughout the day."
Despite his scorecards as well as making only 13 of 20 cuts in 2025, Young started the week at No. 40 in the FedEx Cup Playoffs standings, safely inside the top-70 cutoff. After he signed his Thursday card, he shot up to 16th, which, should that hold, would make him eligible for all three postseason tournaments.
"I think it's just been a progression throughout the year. It's one of those times early in the year where it feels like I'm doing a lot of stuff right and getting nothing for it and the results show the nothing and not the stuff that I felt like was getting better," he said. "It's been a long season and I think I've kind of grown and built some confidence throughout it. It's just a matter of some of that work starting to show and looking forward to doing more of it the next few days."
Young's 63 was later matched by Aaron Rai and Nico Echavarria and then bested by Alex Noren's 62 and Joel Dahmen's 61.
Young is playing in his 94th PGA Tour event. He has seven seconds, a pair of thirds and 12 top-5s in his career.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: 2025 Wyndham Championship: Cameron Young in contention after 18 holes
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