Cameron Young appears to have one hand on his second PGA Tour title of the season, with the American going into the final round of the Cadillac Championship with a six-shot lead at Doral.
Young took charge of the tournament with a 64 in the opening round on the Blue Monster. And he has not looked back, with the 28-year-old five shots clear at the halfway mark.
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The Players Championship winner will be wary of getting carried away. However, it is extremely difficult to see anyone else coming through and winning the latest signature event on the PGA Tour.
Cameron Young’s performance at Cadillac Championship has been compared to Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy
The biggest 54-hole lead that has been thrown away so far this year is three shots. On that occasion, Ludvig Aberg opened the door for Young to go on and win at TPC Sawgrass.
The worry for the chasing pack is that Young’s performance during Saturday’s third round has been compared with Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy.
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He bounced back from a bogey on the opening hole to post a 70 and extend his advantage. With that, Frank Nobilo told Scorecard on CBS Sports that Young sent out an extremely ominous message to the rest of the field.
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“We had a windy day, that’s stating the obvious, but it’s blown pretty much the same direction for three straight days. And for some reason, Cam is doing this without playing the par fives well. So that means really his iron play is superb,” he said.
“The par fours here are difficult. So Cam Young really has owned this golf course, and even though he’s spluttered a bit – remember he made a six on the opening hole, the par five, he hit his second shot into the water – it didn’t bother him. He just went about his way.
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“His patience is almost irritatingly good, and I think that’s what’s affecting the rest of the field. If you go back a year or two, he would take a backward step. He just kept going and going. And this was not his A game today, and I think that’s the scary part.
“Trevor [Immelman] talked about it on the broadcast, we think his ceiling is extremely high and today was one of those ones you would expect from a Scheffler or a McIlroy, it was the holding pattern. But that holding pattern, it increased the lead.”
How Cameron Young is stealing the show in almost every category at Doral
The Blue Monster at Doral has the potential to be one of the most thorough tests on the PGA Tour. It is an extremely long golf course, with hazards strategically placed on the vast majority of holes.
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Few would have probably anticipated that the leader would be 15-under par with 18 holes to play.
But Young is performing well in almost every category. Unsurprisingly, he is inside the top five for strokes gained tee to green so far this week, according to Data Golf.
But of those same five players, Young is the only one who is also gaining shots on the field with his putter.
In fact, Michael Kim is the only player who is performing better on the greens this week than Young.
It is difficult to imagine that Sunday is going to be particularly exciting from a tournament perspective, but there is no question that we are witnessing an extremely impressive performance from Young.
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