{"id":47258,"date":"2026-08-06T18:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/47258\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T18:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:38:10","slug":"cameron-youngs-pause-at-the-top-of-his-swing-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/47258\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Young’s pause at the top of his swing explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated Aug. 6, 2026, 10:42 a.m. ET<\/p>\n

GREENSBORO, NC \u2014 To pause or not to pause \u2013 that is the question.<\/p>\n

Cameron Young\u2019s<\/a> idiosyncratic swing with its pause at the top has drawn its share of supporters and haters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It started as a drill that he and his father and swing coach, David, would do on the driving range.\u00a0The purpose? To eliminate any re-routing or sideways movement of the club in transition. Through the years, it has become more pronounced and noticeably longer than it was during his college years at Wake Forest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not a pause,\u201d wrote golf instructor Jim LaBuda on Facebook. \u201cIt\u2019s control. What looks like a pause is actually perfect timing: The backswing fully completes, the lower body is already starting to shift, the upper body stays patient for a split second. That tiny separation is everything. It creates sequence. It creates space. It creates effortless speed. Most amateurs rush from the top and throw everything at the ball at once. Cameron Young does the opposite \u2014 he lets the swing transition before he fires.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Young, 29, is enjoying a breakout season, including a win at the Players Championship in March, and has vaulted to third in the world. He came into the Wyndham Championship<\/a> as the pre-tournament favorite.<\/p>\n

His fundamentals are solid but not everyone agrees that his hesitation at the top of the swing is something to copy. He makes it work but in the history of the game, only a handful of players have been able to pull off that move \u2013 among them Cary Middlecoff, the winningest player on Tour in the 1950s, Nancy Lopez, who dominated the LPGA for much of the 1970s and \u201880s, and more recently Hideki Matsuyama, the 2021 Masters champion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Legendary pro\u00a0Tommy Armour devoted a chapter in his 1954 instruction book entitled \u201cHow to Play Your Best Golf All the Time,\u201d to making a hesitation at the top of the backswing to stop from rushing, improve transition sequencing and gain control of the club before starting the downswing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But some teachers advocate no transition. Golf\u2019s most repeatable swings from Calvin Peete to Lee Trevino to Ben Hogan don\u2019t have a top because the lower body is going forward first before the club gets to the top.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s no arguing that Young is swinging his swing and he\u2019s been able to make his distinctive pause work.<\/p>\n

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Adam Schupak<\/a> is a senior writer for Golfweek, covering the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Aug. 6, 2026, 10:42 a.m. ET GREENSBORO, NC \u2014 To pause or not to pause \u2013 that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[58,685,59,1236,1237,7808,65,80,193,4134,67,1244,62],"class_list":["post-47258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameron-young","tag-accessfree","tag-cameron-young","tag-sourcegolfweek","tag-sstssportsgolfpga","tag-sstsnpga-tour","tag-tagfacebook","tag-taggolf","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagpga-tour","tag-tagsports-coaching-training","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagthe-players-championship","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}