Cameron Young prepares to tee off on the 14th tee during the third round of the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club. (Photo: Andrew Redington/Getty Images)
Young is a native of Scarborough, New York, where his father, David, is director of golf at Sleepy Hollow Country Club, one of the great courses in the country. (Young’s mom is a stick, too.) Young showed promise from an early age, becoming the youngest winner of the Carter Cup in 2011 as well as Metropolitan Golf Association Junior champion. He was named MGA Player of the Year in 2015, twice won the prestigious Ike, and claimed the Westchester (NY) Golf Association Amateur title too.
Young had the grades to go to Stanford but chose Wake Forest, where he received the Lanny Wadkins Scholarship. He joked that he wasn’t good enough for the Arnold Palmer Scholarship, which went to his teammate Will Zalatoris. The two former teammates are paired together in the second-to-last group Sunday at Southern Hills (1:25 p.m. local time).
Winning the PGA and the Wanamaker Trophy that goes to its champion would be extra special to the son of a club professional.
“It’s because of the PGA that (my father’s) had the job he had for the last many years. Without that, at Sleepy Hollow I don’t start playing at four years old or earlier. I don’t have the access that I did growing up. I started playing in PGA junior events when I was nine, eight, something like that,” Cameron Young said. “For me I’ve been given so much access to golf because of that organization. So to kind of have the chance to go from local PGA junior tournaments, national PGA juniors to Junior Ryder Cup, to even play in a PGA Championship is really cool for me. It kind of has been with me my whole way through.”
Asked if the PGA is the major he most desired, he said, “I wouldn’t discriminate. If I were to win a major championship, I would take any one of them. This one specifically with my parents here this week would be pretty incredible.”
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