Celebrities attending Tiger Woods TGL golf matches at SoFi Center
While most fans attending TGL golf matches since January are ordinary people, there has been no lack of big-named celebrities at SoFi Center.
- Cameron Young, a Jupiter resident, secured his first PGA Tour victory at the Wyndham Championship in his 94th start.
- Young joined the TGL, an indoor golf league founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, after moving to Jupiter.
The Palm Beach Post occasionally will introduce you to a different professional golfer living in our region, whether on the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions, LPGA Tour or LIV Golf.
The area is the mecca of golf with northern Palm Beach County having the highest concentration of professional golfers on major professional tours than anywhere in the world. Today, we take a look at a Jupiter resident who won for the first time on PGA Tour in his 94th start. Young will be competing in the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the first leg of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Playoffs, starting Thursday, August 7.
Here are five things to know about the winner of the Wyndham Championship, Cameron Young.
Cameron Young’s first PGA Tour win wire-to-wire
Young, 28, entered the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., with more second-place finishes (seven) than any player on the PGA Tour without a victory since 2003. That ended August 3 with a wire-to-wire win . Young closed with a 22-under 258, six shots ahead of Mac Meissner. Young became the 1,000th player to win on the PGA TOUR, dating back to Willie Park Jr. in the 1860 Open Championship.
Steady but not spectacular during five years on Tour
Young, the 2022 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year, has been consistently in the top 50 of the world rankings since landing at No. 44 in March 2022, with the exception of three months this season when he missed six cuts in the first 11 events. He has at least five top 10s in the last four years. Young jumped from No. 44 to No. 21 in the world with his win at Wyndham. His highest ranking was 13th in March 2024.
Young learned to play where father was club pro
Born in Scarborough, N.Y., Young learned to play golf at Sleepy Hollow Country Club, where his father, David, was the club’s professional for 20 years. Young won the AJGA Polo Golf Junior Classic in 2014 and a year later represented the United States in both the Junior Ryder Cup and Junior Golf World Cup. He attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., about 30 miles from the site of his first PGA win, graduating in 2019 with a degree in economics.
Young could make a case for 2025 Ryder Cup team
At No. 15 in the Ryder Cup standings, Young is in position where captain Keegan Bradley has to at least think about making him one of his six captain’s picks to go along with the top six in the standings. For Young, the Ryder Cup would be a home game, being played at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y., about 60 miles south of where he was born.
Young held the course record at Bethpage Black — a 64 in the final round of the 2017 Metropolitan PGA’s New York State Open when he became the event’s youngest winner — until Brooks Koepka shot a 63 in the first round of the 2019 PGA Championship.
Moved to Jupiter after graduating from Wake Forest
Young moved to Jupiter following his graduation from Wake Forest and joined the Dye Preserve Golf Club. “The culture down there evolves around golf a lot and my life, at least professionally, evolves around golf,” Young said. “That’s the environment I put myself in.”
Living in the area made him a great fit to join TGL, the tech-infused, indoor league founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. And his roots made him an obvious choice to join the New York Golf Club, joining Rickie Fowler, Matt Fitzpatrick and Xander Schauffele. New York reached the first TGL final, losing to the Atlanta Drive, in March.
Tom D’Angelo is a senior sports columnist and reporter for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at [email protected].
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