Cameron Young had it all working during the Cadillac Championship, and the result was another tournament title.
Young shot a 4-under-par 68 in the final round and was never threatened on the way to a six-stroke victory Sunday outside Miami.
Young finished as the wire-to-wire winner at 19-under 269 at Trump National Doral’s Blue Monster Course, where President Trump was in attendance.
“I feel like I had different parts of the game working on different days,” Young said. “Today I drove it a lot better. First couple days I putted great and I drove it a little bit more all over the place. Thankfully I feel like I’ve got a lot of tools right now and throughout the week I was able to use different parts of the game to keep myself moving in the right direction.”
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler also posted 68 to finish as the runner-up for his third straight start. Ben Griffin (68) was third at 12 under.
Australia’s Adam Scott (64), Austria’s Sepp Straka (66) and South Korea’s Si Woo Kim (70) all tied for fourth place at 11 under.
Young has won two tournaments this year — this followed his breakthrough at The Players Championship in March — and three overall in his PGA Tour career. He didn’t make Sunday’s round complicated.
“I think it was made easier by the weather forecast,” Young said. “We didn’t know exactly how the day was going to go, whether we would be starting and stopping. Started with a delay. It was just one of those times that I feel like that played into my hands and just being really accepting of what came next.”
Young’s biggest glitch might have come on the second hole, when he called a penalty on himself after indicating to officials that he saw the ball move as he was about to hit an approach shot on the par-4 layout. Despite the one-stroke penalty, he drilled a shot to the green and rolled in a par putt from 13 1/2 feet away.
“Your heart sinks when you see it move, but it moved and that’s part of what golf’s about,” Young said of reporting the violation. “There was no one that was going to give me a penalty there but myself.”
Young, who began the day leading by six shots, opened a seven-stroke lead after birdies on the third and fifth holes. He didn’t have a blip on the scorecard until a bogey on No. 11.
Scheffler had birdies on Nos. 15-17, but by then it was too late to catch Young.
“I played with him three out of the four days and he was hitting a lot of quality shots and making putts from anywhere,” Scheffler said. “He was going to be a tough man to beat this week.”
Scott tied with Sahith Theegala for the best score of the day. His bogey-free round included five birdies during the first eight holes.
“I was so disheartened after Friday’s round, my putting was just so bad,” Scott said. “I know a lot of guys have struggled with grain and stuff this week. But just felt like I’m playing good and I’m just not getting anything out of it. So it’s an incredible game because two days later I feel really good about things.”
Sweden’s Alex Noren birdied the first two holes to hold second place before the momentum faded and he shot 69. He finished at 10 under and tied for seventh place with Alex Smalley (69).
The scheduled starting time of the final round was initially moved up several hours as announced Saturday because of weather-related concerns. Then Sunday morning, there was a two-hour delay because of dangerous weather conditions. Golfers then were scheduled to go off from the first and 10th tees.
–Field Level Media
