Cameron Young finishes off wire-to-wire win; Nelly Korda rolls in Mexico

Cameron Young had it all working during the Cadillac Championship, and the result was another tournament title.

Young shot a 4-under-par 68 in the final round and was never threatened on the way to a six-stroke victory Sunday outside Miami.

Young finished as the wire-to-wire winner at 19-under 269 at Trump National Doral's Blue Monster Course, where President Trump was in attendance.

Cameron Young poses with the trophy after winning the the final round of the Cadillac Championship in Doral, Florida.

"I feel like I had different parts of the game working on different days," Young said. "Today I drove it a lot better. First couple days I putted great and I drove it a little bit more all over the place. Thankfully I feel like I've got a lot of tools right now and throughout the week I was able to use different parts of the game to keep myself moving in the right direction."

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler also posted 68 to finish as the runner-up for his third straight start. Ben Griffin (68) was third at 12 under.

Australia's Adam Scott (64), Austria's Sepp Straka (66) and South Korea's Si Woo Kim (70) all tied for fourth place at 11 under.

Young has won two tournaments this year — this followed his breakthrough at The Players Championship in March — and three overall in his PGA Tour career. He didn't make Sunday's round complicated.

"I think it was made easier by the weather forecast," Young said. "We didn't know exactly how the day was going to go, whether we would be starting and stopping. Started with a delay. It was just one of those times that I feel like that played into my hands and just being really accepting of what came next."

Young's biggest glitch might have come on the second hole, when he called a penalty on himself after indicating to officials that he saw the ball move as he was about to hit an approach shot on the par-4 layout. Despite the one-stroke penalty, he drilled a shot to the green and rolled in a par putt from 13½ feet away.

"Your heart sinks when you see it move, but it moved and that's part of what golf's about," Young said of reporting the violation. "There was no one that was going to give me a penalty there but myself."

Young, who began the day leading by six shots, opened a seven-stroke lead after birdies on the third and fifth holes. He didn't have a blip on the scorecard until a bogey on No. 11.

Scheffler had birdies on Nos. 15-17, but by then it was too late to catch Young.

"I played with him three out of the four days and he was hitting a lot of quality shots and making putts from anywhere," Scheffler said. "He was going to be a tough man to beat this week."

Scott tied with Sahith Theegala for the best score of the day. His bogey-free round included five birdies during the first eight holes.

"I was so disheartened after Friday's round, my putting was just so bad," Scott said. "I know a lot of guys have struggled with grain and stuff this week. But just felt like I'm playing good and I'm just not getting anything out of it. So it's an incredible game because two days later I feel really good about things."

Sweden's Alex Noren birdied the first two holes to hold second place before the momentum faded and he shot 69. He finished at 10 under and tied for seventh place with Alex Smalley (69).

The scheduled starting time of the final round was initially moved up several hours as announced Saturday because of weather-related concerns. Then Sunday morning, there was a two-hour delay because of dangerous weather conditions. Golfers then were scheduled to go off from the first and 10th tees.

Korda rolls to LPGA title in Mexico

Nelly Korda didn't take long to return to the winner's circle, posting a final-round, 3-under-par 69 to win the Riviera Maya Open at Mayakoba by four strokes in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

Korda continued her victorious ways at El Camaleon Golf Course seven days after capturing the Chevron Championship — the first major of the season and the third such title of her career — and returning to the No. 1 world ranking.

Korda entered the day with a three-shot advantage and wound up four ahead of Thailand's Arpichaya Yubol (70). In third at 12 under was China's Yu Liu (69), feel-good story Brianna Do (71) finished fourth at 10 under and Colombian amateur Maria Jose Marin (69) placed fifth at 8 under.

"I think it was a perfect week after a major championship, too, where it felt like it was super relaxing but I knew that I needed to grind and I was here to work," Korda said. "I've had such an amazing time. Yeah, I mean, emphasizing it with a win, at the end of the day that's what I was coming here for."

Korda's only scoring stretch amid two runs of pars came at the fifth through seventh holes. She holed an eagle at the par-5 fifth, then birdied the next two for a 4-under run.

From there, it was 10 straight pars until cleaning up a bogey 6 at the 18th.

"I guess there (were) two parts to my round," Korda said. "Definitely on my front nine I had my A-game, and then on the back nine I wasn't playing bad; just wasn't hitting it close. And then I was kind of cruising and then golf humbled me on the last hole. Made my (second bogey) on the weekend."

Korda continued a thoroughly dominant season to this point. In six starts, she now has three victories and three second-place finishes.

"I've had some amazing moments in my career," the 27-year-old said. "In 2024 I won five in a row and my fifth one was a major. So I've had — I can't say that one moment in my career was the best. I think all of them have had a different meaning and all of them have been so great in different ways.

"I'm just happy to be competing out here healthy, motivated. You know, I'm so happy on the golf course. I'm happy off the golf course."

Yubol brushed off an early bogey with birdies at Nos. 4 and 5, but her next eight holes were all pars and she ran out of time to catch up to Korda. A double bogey at No. 16 killed her chances despite three birdies in the last five holes.

"Normally when I play with like another player and they have like a big crowd, so my brain is kind of crazy a little bit, and sometime it's too hard to like control your game and control your brains, anything," said Yubol, who played on her 24th birthday.

"But this time, it's kind of like, I don't know, maybe it's my birthday, too. Like I'm growing up; 24 already. Like I talk to myself like all the time. Like even I'm hit bad I'm still talk to myself, you can do it. You can come back any time. Just play your game and everything happen is happen."

Do, 36, had one top-10 and zero top-five finishes in her LPGA career before this week. She was a co-leader after the first and second rounds but was still pleased with the end result.

"After last year, you know, going into it I believed that my best golf was still ahead of me even though I'm one of the older players out here, and I still believe that. It just showed this week," Do said. "It's hard to not get emotional, but I'm really proud of myself and how I played."

This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: Cameron Young finishes off wire-to-wire win at Cadillac Championship