Cameron Young laps the field at Cadillac Championship for third PGA Tour win

That continued for most of the tournament as Young ranked second in Strokes Gained: Putting for the week. Summing up his putting performance, he added, “I made all the ones that you feel like you're supposed to make and then I've had a good few on top of that from 15 to 30 feet, which is a nice relief when those go in.”

Young followed with rounds of 67 and 70 to open a six-stroke lead going into the final round. But he had to play in the final group with Scottie Scheffler. Young was unfazed. Not even calling a penalty stroke on himself at the second hole, where he couldn’t be sure if he made his ball move, could sabotage his momentum. He stuck the landing on an 8-iron and rolled in the putt for par. On a day when morning showers softened the course and led to the final round being played under preferred lies, Young birdied Nos. 3, 5 and 8 to extend his lead to seven. “His patience is almost irritatingly good,” said CBS’s Frank Nobilo.

The mental side of the game has been the final ingredient in Young’s evolution into one of the top players in the game and on the short list for the hottest player in the world. Young projects a stoic demeanor on the outside, but he can run hot on the inside and had developed a habit of being his own worst enemy.

“When you have somebody who is as talented as Cam, who can hit all the shots with great majesty, the next shot is the next battle, not the last shot,” said Young’s mental coach, Dr. Bhrett McCabe. “I tell him, ‘Don't beat yourself up on what went wrong, why it went wrong, let's move on.’ ”

That philosophy has served Young well. On Sunday, with President Donald Trump in attendance at the club he owns, Young made bogeys at Nos. 11 and 13 but bounced back with birdies at 12, 15 and 16 and clipped Scheffler (68), the world No. 1 by a touchdown. Ben Griffin (68) was a shot back in third, and Adam Scott, who tied for the low round of the day with 64, played bogey-free on the weekend for the first time since 2017, and finished T-4 with Si Woo Kim and Sepp Straka.

It took Young 93 Tour starts before he secured his first victory, 10 to win his second and just three to grab his third trophy after taming the famed Blue Monster course, shooting 19-under 269. He also went wire-to-wire, joining Justin Rose at the Farmers Insurance Open as the only players to do so this season, and the first at Doral since Andy Bean in 1977. Three wins in Young's last 14 starts is not too shabby.

“This was not his ‘A game,’ and that's the scary part,” Nobilo said of Young’s third-round 70. "His ceiling is extremely high.”

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Cameron Young wins Cadillac Championship 2026 for third PGA Tour win