Cameron Young

Exempt status

• PGA TOUR: Top 30 in 2021-22 FedExCup Playoffs and Eligibility Points List (thru 2023-24)

JOINED TOUR

• Korn Ferry Tour: 2020
• PGA TOUR: 2022

Korn Ferry Tour Victories (2)

2020-21 Season

• AdventHealth Championship
• Evans Scholars Invitational presented by First Midwest Bank

National Teams

• 2022 Presidents Cup

Special Interests

Career Highlights

2022 Season

Recorded five second-place results and advanced to the TOUR Championship in his rookie season, finishing No. 19 in the FedExCup standings. Became the seventh player since 1980 to collect five runner-up finishes in a season and the first since Vijay Singh in 2003, finishing second at the Sanderson Farms Championship, The Genesis Invitational, Wells Fargo Championship, The Open Championship and Rocket Mortgage Classic. Also recorded T3s at the RBC Heritage and the PGA Championship, finishing one stroke out of a playoff in both events. With $6,520,598 in Official Money, became the first PGA TOUR rookie to earn $5 million or more in a season, surpassing Xander Schauffele's mark of $4,312,674 in 2016-17. Also became the first player to not win and make more than $6.5 million in a season. Ended the season No. 17 in the Official World Golf Ranking, the highest position of any player that had not won on the PGA TOUR as of the end of the season. Finished the FedExCup Regular Season No. 9 in the FedExCup standings, earning a bonus of $1.1 million via the Comcast Business TOUR TOP 10. Made 18 cuts in 25 starts. Named one of six captain's picks for the United States at the 2022 Presidents Cup.

• Rocket Mortgage Classic: Carded a second-round 63 and went on to finish T2 at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, earning his fifth runner-up of the season.
• The Open Championship: Held a two-stroke lead after the first round of The Open Championship and went on to finish solo-second, his fourth runner-up of the season and first in a major championship. Made eagle at the 72nd hole to move from third to second on the leaderboard. Made 25 birdies, the most in the field.
• the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday: Held a share of the first-round lead at the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday before finishing T60.
• PGA Championship: Finished T3 at the PGA Championship after making a cut in a major for the first time in his fourth attempt. Finished one stroke out of the playoff between Justin Thomas and Will Zalatoris.
• Wells Fargo Championship: Carded a final-round 66 to finish T2 at the Wells Fargo Championship, earning his third runner-up of the season.
• RBC Heritage: Recorded his third top-three finish of the season with a T3 at the RBC Heritage. Led the field in Birdies (22).
• The Genesis Invitational: Finished T2 at The Genesis Invitational in his tournament debut. Marked his second runner-up finish of the season (T2/2021 Sanderson Farms Championship). Co-led the field in Birdies (23).
• Sanderson Farms Championship: Finished T2 at the Sanderson Farms Championship in his fifth career start on the PGA TOUR. Led the field in Birdies (27).

2021 Season

Earned his first PGA TOUR card with a No. 19 finish on the 2020-21 Korn Ferry Tour Regular Season Points List, and No. 17 finish on the season-long points list. Began the season without Korn Ferry Tour status (had fully exempt status for PGA TOUR Canada, which cancelled its season May 29, 2020) but earned Special Temporary Membership with an incredible run of four consecutive top-15s in August 2020. Monday qualified for the 2020 Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Aetna, where he finished T11 and earned enough points for a spot in the WinCo Foods Portland Open, originally scheduled to be the regular season finale, the following week. Finished T14 in Portland and secured Special Temporary Membership with a T6 at the Albertsons Boise Open followed by a T2 at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship. Won back-to-back events and was one of seven multi-time winners in the 2020-21 season.

• Live and Work in Maine Open: Made six birdies and an eagle amid a final-round 5-under 66 and totaled a 13-under 271 for a T5 at the Live and Work in Maine Open.
• Evans Scholars Invitational presented by First Midwest Bank: Became the 10th player in Korn Ferry Tour history (and first since 2013) to win back-to-back tournaments and won the Evans Scholars Invitational presented by First Midwest Bank by five strokes, the highest margin of victory on Tour since 2019. Held a share of the lead Thursday with an opening-round 7-under 64, and held the outright lead the rest of the way with rounds of 68-67-67 for an 18-under 266.
• AdventHealth Championship: Earned his first career Korn Ferry Tour title by two strokes over Dawie van der Walt at 19-under at the AdventHealth Championship. Became the first player to go wire-to-wire for the victory since 2018.

2020 Season

• Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship: Fired rounds of 66-69-68-71 to finish the week T2 at 10-under 274 at the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship.
• Albertsons Boise Open presented by Kraft Nabisco: Spurred by a third-round 10-under 61, finished T6 at 18-under 266 to earn his first career top-10 on Tour at the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Kraft Nabisco.
• Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Q-School-USA East 2: Was solid at week at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Highland Oaks, opening with a 6-under 66 to share the first-round lead with Michael Nagy. Followed with a 69 to take a one-shot lead and never trailed again. Two more 69s followed on his way to a 15-under 273 and a three-shot lead win over amateur Quade Cummins. Made an eagle in each of his first three rounds, a hole-in-one on No. 13 in the first round and back-to-back eagles at the par-5 11th. Was exempt for every Mackenzie Tour event but ultimately the Tour canceled the season.

2019 Season

Played in three PGA TOUR Latinoamérica events, made two cuts and posted one top-10 to finish his year 87th on the Order of Merit. While still an amateur, played in the U.S. Open, missing the cut.

• Termas de Rio Hondo Invitational: Had a 71-71 start to make the cut and appeared he would have a middle-of-the-pack finish. Caught fire in the third round, with a Saturday 62 that included eight birdies and an eagle. Kept the momentum going on his front nine Sunday, with a 4-under 32 that included a hole-out eagle on the par-4 eighth. Fell from contention with a double bogey at No. 13 and a bogey at No. 17. Still finished T4 with Camilo Aguado and Blair Hamilton, two shots behind winner Alejandro Tosti.

Amateur Highlights

• As a freshman, in 2015, won the U.S. Collegiate Championship and the Warrior Princeville Makai Invitational, becoming the first Demon Deacon to win twice during the fall season since Bill Haas in 2002-03. His winning streak also made him the first Wake Forest player to win consecutive tournaments since Haas in 2002-03, the first Wake freshman to win consecutive tournaments since Curtis Strange (1973-74) and the first Deacon to win twice as a freshman since Gary Hallberg (1976-77).
• Won the 2019 General Hackler Invitational, the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational and the Stitch Intercollegiate to finish his Wake Forest career with five wins, tying him for fourth most in program history.
• Was an All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection three times (2017-19) and a Ping All-East Region selection those same years.
• Was a member of the U.S. Junior Ryder Cup and Junior World Cup teams in 2014.
• Won the 2013 AJGA Polo Golf Junior Classic at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., defeating Jorge Garcia in the final after dispatching Brad Dalke and Andy Zhang in earlier matches. It was only his second career AJGA event.
• Made it to the second round of the 2015 U.S. Amateur, losing to Spain’s Jon Rahm.
• Became the first amateur to win the New York State Open, a tournament he captured in 2017 at Bethpage State Park’s Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y. Young defeated Chris DeForest in a two-hole playoff but had to forego a $17,500 payday to maintain his amateur status.

Q SCHOOL GRADUATE

• PGA TOUR Canada: 2020