Tommy Fleetwood failed to end his PGA Tour drought with a brutal collapse at the Travelers Championship in June, but Cameron Young finally claimed his maiden win in North Carolina
Cameron Young won his first PGA Tour event on Sunday at the Wyndham Championship(Image: 2025 Getty Images)
After finishing runner-up on seven occasions while taking home $25.6 million in career earnings, Cameron Young finally secured his first PGA Tour win at the Wyndham Championship.
Heading into this weekend, three high-profile PGA Tour regulars were without a win. Young, Tommy Fleetwood, and Alex Noren. Fleetwood missed a stunning opportunity to end his drought at the Travelers Championship earlier this year, but Young’s fortunes on the final day were a complete reverse of Fleetwood’s pain as he stormed to a comfortable maiden win in North Carolina.
Young finished 22-under-par to win by six strokes, with Mac Meissner the closest challenger in second. Young appeared emotional when speaking to CBS Sports reporter Amanda Balionis after his victory was confirmed, as he became the 1,000th unique first-time winner of the PGA Tour. It came after Balionis and Tiger Woods paid an emotional tribute to a golf legend departing the PGA Tour.
“I’ve been waiting for it for a while,” Young said. “I never thought I’d really be that emotional about it but, it’s the end of my fourth season, and I’ve had my chances.
“Never quite like this, and I wasn’t going to let it get away from me today. My dad is here, which is really nice. Unfortunately, it’s one of the couple of times that my whole family is not here, so I’m missing them.”
Before Sunday’s maiden win, Young had been runner-up on seven occasions, the most by any player on the PGA Tour without a win since 1983. The victory came at the perfect time, as Young is desperate to land a place on the U.S. Ryder Cup team.
"I've been waiting for it for a while. I never thought I'd really be that emotional about it."
Cameron Young joins Amanda Balionis after the win pic.twitter.com/8gzA9H2qPq
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“That team is a goal of many of us, and I’ve tried to put that in the back of my mind,” Young added. Obviously, I would love the chance to play. I’ve got some more opportunities to earn my way on the team.”
Young is currently 19th in the Ryder Cup standings, with the top six players qualifying automatically. U.S. team captain Keegan Bradley will then make his final six picks to complete the squad, but he warned the selection pool that nothing is guaranteed.
In an interview on the ‘Fore Play’ podcast, Bradley said: “I’ve been on like a million of these calls so I know exactly how I’ll do it. I know how I would want it to be done.”
Bradley has personally experienced receiving bad news from former team captain Zach Johnson, and added: “The simple fact of this is if you’re not in the top six you can’t expect to be on the team. When I wasn’t in the top six for Zach at Rome I totally understood not getting picked.
Young is desperate to make the U.S. Ryder Cup team roster(Image: 2025 Getty Images)
“You cannot expect to be on the team if you don’t finish in the top six – even if you’re seventh. When you get the call that you’re not on the team and you’re not in that top six – I wasn’t mad at Zach – I got it.”
Bradley and Young missed out in 2023, and the latter is eager to avoid disappointment again. “It hurt pretty bad to miss it a couple of years ago,” Young told Golf.com. “I was ninth on the points list and didn’t get picked, so I was a bit frustrated at that.
Young’s plan at the start of this season was to give the captain “no choice” regarding the Ryder Cup selection. “I don’t know if I’m in a position to do that or not, but it would take some really good golf between now and then,” he added.
“But if I’m in the question, that’s been a big goal of mine and I’d love to put myself there anyway.”
