The ‘incredible’ change in Cameron Young that has been noticed since he won on the PGA Tour for the first time

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“You look at what happened at The Players Championship, it was entirely different where he just hung around, let others make mistakes, he hit a great shot on the 71st hole of the golf tournament, hit the drive of his life on the 72nd hole of the golf tournament and won with a par. This, I think, was a tour de force and just sent a signal to the Rory’s and certainly the Scottie’s of the world because Cam Young played with Scottie for three of these first four rounds that ‘when I’m at this top gear, I’m incredibly difficult to beat’.

“Cameron Young shoots 64 in the opening round. He leads at the halfway point by five shots. He leads at the 54-hole mark by six shots. And on Sunday you mentioned it was 15 minutes of maybe a little bit of intrigue, I’m not even sure it was 15 minutes. Maybe when the ball moved and he had to take a penalty and ended up making a par, that was it. That was a three or four minute span for Cameron Young.

“He was never seriously threatened on a golf course where there’s a lot of trouble. There’s a lot of hazards. There’s a lot of water. We saw the sand and getting plugged lies all over the place. The wind picked up in advance of the storm. Everything could have happened, and Cameron Young was never seriously challenged while playing with the world number one alongside him. From an attitude standpoint, I’m seeing an incredible shift from Cameron Young over the past couple of months.”

The next challenge for Cameron Young after two statement victories

Winning at TPC Sawgrass and Doral surely confirms that Young has the ideal game to go on and become a major champion in the not so distant future.

In fact, his record in the majors is extremely impressive already. Young has finished in the top three at three of the four majors.

Young has one less top 10 in the majors than Tommy Fleetwood. The Englishman is widely considered the best player without a major win in the current game, and he has played in nearly twice as many as Young.

While it is going to be asking a lot of Young to expect him to contend at the PGA Championship when he is playing three weeks in a row, it should come as no surprise if he wins one of the game’s biggest prizes before too long.