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Associated Press
Aug 3, 2025, 06:46 PM ET
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Cameron Young yet got his archetypal PGA Tour triumph Sunday aft 7 runner-up finishes, and helium made it look easy. He had 5 consecutive birdies aboriginal to physique a nine-shot pb and coasted location to a 2-under 68 to triumph the Wyndham Championship by six shots.
He became the 1,000th subordinate to triumph a recognized PGA Tour event, dating to Willie Park successful the 1860 British Open. It indispensable person felt similar it took Young 165 years to triumph arsenic galore chances arsenic helium has had since his rookie play successful 2022.
"I've been waiting for it for a while," Young said, his dependable dependable arsenic tears welled successful his eyes. "I ne'er thought I'd beryllium that affectional astir it. But it's the extremity of my 4th season. I've had my chances and I wasn't going to fto it get distant from me."
There was nary doubting this one.
He followed those 5 consecutive birdies with 9 consecutive pars, a brace of meaningless bogeys toward the extremity lone outgo him a accidental astatine the tourney scoring record. He finished astatine 22-under 258, tying the grounds held by J.T. Poston (2019) and Henrik Stenson (2017).
"Where bash I go? I've ne'er done this before," Young said erstwhile helium walked disconnected the 18th green.
Mac Meissner won the B-flight. He changeable 66 to decorativeness unsocial successful second, worthy $893,800 and capable to determination him to No. 86 successful the FedEx Cup. He won't beryllium advancing to the postseason, but it gives him a immense boost for staying successful the apical 100 by November to support his afloat card.
Auburn inferior Jackson Koivun changeable 67 and tied for fifth, getting him into the adjacent PGA Tour lawsuit successful September. He has deferred his PGA Tour paper from the accelerated PGA Tour University programme until adjacent year.
The triumph could not person travel astatine a amended clip for Young, the 28-year-old New Yorker whose biggest extremity this twelvemonth was to beryllium successful azygous astatine Bethpage Black for the Ryder Cup.
The triumph lone moves him to No. 15 successful the Ryder Cup standings, but helium gets 2 much FedEx Cup playoff events to marque his lawsuit and his powerfulness is an perfect acceptable astatine Bethpage Black, wherever successful 2017 helium became the archetypal amateur to triumph the New York State Open.
"That squad is simply a extremity of galore of us," Young said. "Obviously, I would emotion the accidental to play. I've got immoderate much opportunities to gain my mode connected the team."
There was plentifulness of play astatine Sedgefield Country Club, but not astatine the apical of the leaderboard.
Young had a five-shot pb and wobbled connected the opening hole, making bogey. But helium poured successful an 8-foot birdie putt connected the adjacent hole, the commencement of 5 consecutive birdies. Most telling was the 3rd hole, erstwhile Nico Echavarria fto retired a outcry and a fist pump erstwhile helium made a birdie from conscionable wrong 30 feet. Young calmly responded with a 25-foot birdie putt and the rout was on.
The Wyndham Championship is the last tourney of the regular play that determined the apical 70 successful the FedEx Cup who beforehand to the lucrative postseason that starts adjacent week.
Ultimately, lone Chris Kirk moved into the apical 70 with his necktie for fifth, and Byeong Hun An (missed cut) was the lone 1 to autumn out.
But the last hr was nary little riveting.
Davis Thompson needed a large decorativeness to determination from No. 78 successful the FedEx Cup, and helium got conscionable that with a birdie putt from conscionable wrong 50 feet connected the par-5 15th. He was wrong the apical 70 erstwhile helium reached the 18th, lone to three-putt from 45 feet. Thompson missed a 6-foot par putt, moving him backmost down to No. 71 by a borderline of 5 points.
"Sucks ending the regular play this way," Thompson said.
The last spot went to Matti Schmid of Germany, who came into the last week astatine No. 70 and remarkably stayed there. He was connected the verge of missing the chopped until returning Saturday greeting to decorativeness the storm-delayed 2nd circular by playing the past six holes successful 5 under.
And past connected Sunday, aft a treble bogey connected No. 11 enactment him astatine 5 implicit for his round, Schmid birdied his past 3 holes from 25 feet, 10 feet and 25 feet that coiled up sending him to the FedEx St. Jude Championship adjacent week with its $20 cardinal purse.
Schmid had anticipation erstwhile helium saw a video committee connected the 15th projecting him astatine No. 72.
"Which I thought, 'All right, this is not excessively acold away.' And past I made 3 birdies truthful astir apt I should look astatine it much often," Schmid said.
No 1 exhaled rather similar Young, a large endowment who yet has a trophy to amusement for it. Not since David Duval had idiosyncratic had 7 runner-up finishes connected the PGA Tour earlier winning. Even much frustrating for Young was idiosyncratic ever played better.
His final-round scoring mean successful those runner-up finishes was 66.7. The different was successful Match Play, wherever Sam Burns bushed him with 8 birdies connected his past 10 holes.
Young made it hard for anyone to bushed him Sunday.
