Cameron Young has some scar tissue from the last Ryder Cup process.<\/p>\n
Ninth in points yet bypassed for a spot on the 2023 U.S. team that eventually was beaten convincingly in Rome, Young was frustrated, he admits, by being left home.<\/p>\n
\u201cSet out the year to give our captain no choice,\u201d Young said, \u201cand I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m in a position to do that or not, but it would take some really good golf between now and then.\u201d<\/p>\n
At least this week, nobody is playing better golf.<\/p>\n
Not even close, as Young is 20 under through three rounds of the Wyndham Championship, five shots clear entering Sunday\u2019s final round at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina. Seven times a runner-up but no wins still in his PGA Tour career, the 28-year-old Young would love to open the floodgates entering the FedExCup Playoffs.<\/p>\n
At No. 19 in U.S. Ryder Cup points, he\u2019s likely not going to make up enough ground to crack to top six automatic selections, which are determined after the BMW Championship. But if he wins Sunday, a victory that is projected to bump him well inside the top 20 in points, he will probably make it to the Tour Championship, meaning that after this week, his late audition for captain Keegan Bradley is three events.<\/p>\n
A product of Scarborough, New York, Young debuting in a Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black is especially meaningful.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that that location is, first of all, one of my favorite golf courses in the world,\u201d Young said. \u201cI have a lot of good memories there playing the New York State Open, and I\u2019m sure a New York crowd would be, I at least hope, on my side to some extent. So yeah, that\u2019s been a goal this whole year. I\u2019m trying to just look at that to just take all the small stuff that happens day to day as it comes\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the back of my mind, I\u2019m trying to picture myself on that team.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, how does Young compare with other potential American captain\u2019s picks?<\/p>\n
He\u2019s 74th in total strokes gained, which is well behind names such as Patrick Cantlay (11), Ben Griffin (14), Jordan Spieth (16), Sam Burns (23), Daniel Berger (24), Chris Gotterup (28) and Maverick McNealy (32).<\/p>\n
But he\u2019s 10th in strokes gained putting, a career best.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like just mechanically I just am a better putter than I am at any other point in my career,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n
And then he\u2019s 157th in strokes gained approach, though he seemingly discovered something last week. During the off week, he was looking through some old swing videos when he noticed his better iron swings of old had more draw bias. He decided to commit to hitting draws to hopefully build a feel that appears to have since rooted.<\/p>\n
Young is 13th in strokes gained approach through 54 holes of the Wyndham, while he\u2019s also tops in the field in putting and second off the tee.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had the inclination to try to like see what it felt like to hit something straighter today and just didn\u2019t,\u201d Young said. \u201cYeah, safe to say I\u2019ll probably be doing that tomorrow, see what it gets me.\u201d<\/p>\n
It could be Young\u2019s first career PGA Tour title.<\/p>\n
And it eventually could be his first Ryder Cup nod, just like Young has been picturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Young has some scar tissue from the last Ryder Cup process. Ninth in points yet bypassed for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-115553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114964790305176247","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}