The habits instilled in Young at an early age contribute to his success.
Cameron Young is not one to shy away from big moments on the golf course. Fans of the many eclectic personalities in professional golf don’t often encounter the simplicity of Young — an old soul at only 29 years of age who is ranked No. 3 in the Official World Golf Ranking.
Outside of his career, he prioritizes building his Catholic faith and living a life bigger than himself.
Young shows a natural selflessness that is routinely captured by television cameras. He is quick to acknowledge the importance of Sunday Mass, which he honors amid the season-long grind of tournaments and travel on the PGA Tour. His public demonstration of faith is a testament to his willingness to look at God as the central attraction in a world utterly and adversely dialed into worshipping celebrity figures. For Young, championship golf can wait until after the final blessing is administered by the priest.
“He did a good job making it a pretty normal Sunday morning,” said his father David, during an interview with NBC Sports, after his son won his first PGA Tour event last year at the Wyndham Championship.
“He got up, went to church, had breakfast, and did all the things he would normally do on a Sunday morning. Same drills and same routine on the range.”
The habits instilled in Young at an early age contribute to his success. Young has stayed grounded in his faith amid some of the most pivotal hours of his career, whether representing the United States at the Ryder Cup or playing a major event on the PGA Tour calendar. He is living proof that faith and career success don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Cameron Young acknowledges the crowd at The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England in July 2026.(Photo: Courtesy photo)
Young currently lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, but his roots are in Scarborough, New York. He honed his craft from an early age at Sleepy Hollow Country Club, where dad David served as head golf pro for more than two decades. His dad remains his coach to this day, allowing them to grow their special bond amid the backdrop of golf’s biggest events.
“He smiles a lot and has a great sense of humor,” said David in an exclusive interview featured on the PGA Tour website. “One of the gratifying parts of us as parents are the interviews where people get to see what he’s really like other than just the stoic look he has between the ropes.”
The calm-natured Young has already won two titles this year on the PGA Tour as well as posted a runner-up finish at The Open Championship last month.
In March, Young topped the leaderboard at the famed TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, posting a final card of 13-under at an event dubbed “golf’s fifth major” for its history, unique course layout and lofty prize money. In May, Young won his third career PGA Tour event at the Cadillac Championship played at Trump National Doral. He finished an impressive 19-under, as his family and President Donald Trump watched him take the winner’s mark in Miami.
“I was really happy to see them at the end of a day like that,” Young said during an interview with the Golf Channel of embracing his wife, Kelsey, and their three young children: sons Henry and John and daughter Vivienne.
Young went to Catholic school at Fordham Preparatory School, an all-boys Jesuit high school in the Bronx. From there, he earned a scholarship to Wake Forest University, where he developed into one of the best amateur golfers in the country. Outside of bloodlines, Young’s entourage includes a college teammate-turned-caddie named Kyle Sterbinsky, who mans his bag with fraternal spirit.
Unlike a lot of his athletic contemporaries, Young has chosen a humble approach in his public profile. Similar to Scottie Scheffler, an outspoken Christian who sits atop the world golf rankings, both men honor their Redeemer at every turn. Young himself has publicly praised Scheffler, the current standard-setter in the sport, for staying grounded with every high-pressure swing. Golf is not just a lifestyle for both men, but instead a life worth living to glorify God.
“He is a very humble young man,” former PGA Tour golfer Jerry Haas told the Register, who coached Young at Wake Forest. “He is quiet and caring and almost wants to be invisible.”
Fittingly, that character was molded in a loving and supportive household, said Haas.
“I soon realized there was a father and a mother that showed him the fundamentals of the game, showed him proper etiquette, then just supported him in his dreams.”