Carson Young

Exempt status

• PGA TOUR: Top 50 from 2022 Korn Ferry Tour (thru 2022-23)

JOINED TOUR

• PGA TOUR Canada: 2020
• Korn Ferry Tour: 2022

Korn Ferry Tour Victories (1)

2022 Season

• The Panama Championship

Additional Victories (1)

• 2020 Jacksonville Championship (LOCALiQ Series)

Personal

• Says he is a first-ballot Mario Kart 64 Hall of Famer.
• Grew up playing competitive tennis like his brothers and cousins; he saw a golf course beside the tennis courts and begged his parents to let him go play golf. Nobody in the family knew anything about the game, or even how to play. He picked up the game fairly quickly with the help of Harvey Brock, a local pro at Boscobel Golf Club, around the time he was 7 years old. He won the first tournament he entered (against 8-9 year olds) and was hooked.
• His dad took him to junior tournaments when he was younger, and on one occasion he was so nervous they had to pull over to the side of the road so he could throw up. His dad said he didn't have to play and they could go home, if he wanted to. He looked at his dad and said, "No, I love it."
• Always leaves his sweater on when he’s making birdies, no matter how hot it gets.
• Wife, Riley, is a talented photographer.
• Favorite golf memory is seeing Tiger Woods at a 2008 Masters Tournament practice round.

Special Interests

• Snowboarding, bass fishing, video games

Career Highlights

2022 Season

Earned his first PGA TOUR card via the 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Finals, posting a pair of top-25s, including a T12 at the season-ending Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance, to finish No. 16 on the Korn Ferry Tour Finals Eligibility Points List. Nearly earned a TOUR card via the regular season, largely off the strength of his win at The Panama Championship, but finished No. 31 on the Korn Ferry Tour Regular Season Eligibility Points List. Ranked 11th on Tour in driving accuracy percentage (67.84 percent).

• The Panama Championship: Rebounded from a bogey on the first hole of his final round with a bogey-free closing 17 holes en route to a 2-under 68 and his first Korn Ferry Tour victory in his 10th overall start and third as a member. Made six bogeys, tied for the fewest over-par holes played all week at Panama Golf Club, one of the toughest venues on Tour, as he totaled an 8-under 272 and finished a stroke ahead of four runner-up finishers at The Panama Championship.

2021 Season

Played in all eight Forme Tour events, the highlight a runner-up finish late in the season. Made six cuts in his eight starts to close the year 13th on the Points List.

• Forme Open at TPC River's Bend: Held a share of the 54-hole lead with Corey Shaun after a 64-68-63 start at TPC River’s Bend. Moved ahead by two shots through nine holes of the final round. Made a bogey at the 10th hole then watched Shaun birdie No. 11. The duo traded pars on the next five holes until Shaun rolled in a 12-footer for birdie that eventually sealed the win. Settled for a solo-second finish at 25-under in suburban Cincinnati.

2020 Season

Was the picture of consistency on the LOCALiQ Series, playing in seven of the eight tournaments, missing no cuts, winning once and adding three additional top-10s to finish third on the final points list.

• LOCALiQ Series Championship (LOCALiQ Series): Closed his remarkably consistent season with another top-10, this time a T8 at TPC Sugarloaf in mid-November. Cooled on the weekend after a 70-66 start. Played his final 36 holes in 2-over to tie Hayden Shieh, Patrick Newcomb, Andrew Dorn and David Sanders.
• The Challenge at Harbor Hills (LOCALiQ Series): Followed his Jacksonville Championship win with another solid performance, turning in a T10 at Harbor Hills CC on the strength of three sub-70 rounds, including a second-round 65.
• Jacksonville Championship (LOCALiQ Series): Sunk a 25-footer on the first playoff hole to win at Hidden Hills GC, three months after he won an Unbridled Tour event in a playoff, also at Hidden Hills, on the same hole. Opened with a course-record-tying 63 but stumbled on day two, with a 1-over 72. Recovered with a bogey-free, 5-under 66 on the final day, just missing a birdie putt on the 54th hole that would have given him the title outright. Moved to No. 2 in the Race to The Bahamas standings with two tournaments to play. His winning birdie putt came, the just creeped into the hole, came after Rowin Caron missed his birdie effort from 45 feet and David Pastore valiantly chipped from off the green, almost holing his shot.
• Alpharetta Classic (LOCALiQ Series): Opened with a 1-under 71 then peeled off rounds of 65-65 to finish T4 with amateur Yuxin Lin at The GC of Georgia.
• Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Q-School-USA East 1: Opened and closed with 2-under 70s at Mission Inn Resort and Club in early March to finish T7 with Dylan Meyer and Trey Shirley. He will be exempt for the first half of the Forme Tour season.

Amateur Highlights

• Played four seasons at Clemson University (2013-17) and turned professional following his senior season. Won the 2017 Furman Invitational for his lone collegiate victory, earned a 2017 All-America Honorable Mention laurel, and was a two-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection (2016 and 2017).
• Finished his collegiate career with a 73.19 career scoring average, but earned Clemson’s award for most improved player as a junior and senior, when he went from a 74.85 combined scoring average as a freshman and sophomore to an average of 73.39 as a junior and 71.28 as a senior.
• After winning the 2013 South Carolina Amateur, captured the title again in 2016, taking a three-stroke win over 2020-21 Korn Ferry Tour graduate Andrew Novak, finishing at 11-under par over the four days.
• At the 2016 Carolinas Amateur, opened with a 76 then shot consecutive rounds of 67-64-68 to finish regulation tied for first with Christian Sease at the CC of Charleston. The final round consisted of a six-hour weather delay followed by a four-hole playoff , where Sease prevailed with a bogey on the course’s 18th hole.
• As a prep, won the individual state championship back to back in his junior and senior years at Pendleton High School in Pendleton, South Carolina. His team won the state title his junior year and finished second during his final high school, year.

Q SCHOOL GRADUATE

• PGA TOUR Canada: 2020
• Korn Ferry Tour: 2021