Will it finally be his time? Following a third-round 65, Cameron Young has reached 20 under at the 2025 Wyndham Championship to notch a new 54-hole tournament scoring record and command a five-stroke lead over Nico Echavarria with just 18 holes to play in the PGA Tour’s regular season finale. The advantage represents the largest 54-hole lead of his PGA Tour career and has positioned Young to finally capture his maiden victory on the circuit in his 94th start.
For Young, it has been a long time coming as he arrived at Sedgefield Country Club a runner-up finisher seven times across his four seasons on the PGA Tour — the most from a player without a win since 1983 — in addition to having 22 top-10 finishes to his name. If he were to go onto win, it would represent his first while also making Young the 1,000th unique winner in the history of the PGA Tour.
It has been a near flawless performance for Young up to this point as he has carded 22 birdies against just two bogeys in his 54 holes of action. Entering the third round with a three-stroke lead over Mac Meissner and Sungjae Im after needing to return to the golf course early Saturday morning to polish off the remaining holes in his second round, Young proved not even a little weather could slow him down.
After two straight pars to begin his third round, Young rattled off four straight birdies to stretch his lead to as many as eight. With the rest of the field helpless in comparison to the frontman, Young jumped at the chance to add as much room between himself and his peers.
The birdies grounded in the middle portion of his round, but Young remained steady as ever. A hefty diet of pars and a bogey on the difficult par-4 14th preceded a couple more circles on his scorecard coming home and made sure his lead was well padded by the time he walked off the golf course.
While Young may have one hand on the trophy, it is not yet secure on his mantle as Echavarria may have something to say about it. The two-time PGA Tour winner jumped through a congested chasing pack Saturday afternoon with a 64 of his own to pose as Young’s closest challenger in the final round.
The Colombian began the week No. 65 in the FedEx Cup standings and is projected to move inside the top 50 should he his maintain his place on the leaderboard. A trip into the winner’s circle would push Echavarria’s name even higher as competitors continue to jostle for postseason positioning with only the top 70 players moving onto next week and the start of the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
The leader
1. Cameron Young (-20)
The tournament scoring record at Sedgefield Country Club could very well fall on Sunday as Henrik Stenson and J.T. Poston hold the current record at 22 under. Young will need only a fraction of what he has done the first three days to surpass that mark, and it is largely due to a massive improvement on the greens.
Entering the tournament, Young ranked 10th on the PGA Tour in terms of strokes gained putting after two straight seasons of bleeding strokes to the field with the putter in hand. On Saturday, he sizzled with the blade converting a subtle, but crucial par save on his opener from 4 feet before conversions from 8 feet, 35 feet and 15 feet on his front nine. It’s a weapon Young has wielded effectively so far this week and a weapon he has never had in his past attempts in contention.
Other contenders
2. Nico Echavarria (-15)
T3. Mac Meissner, Aaron Rai, Chris Kirk (-12)
6. Jackson Kouvin (-11)
T7. Matt Fitzpatrick, Davis Thompson (-10)
T9. Alex Noren, Gary Woodland, Joel Dahmen (-9)
With 27 holes left in this tournament, Echavarria found himself eight strokes behind Young. He got within four strokes of the leader when he made birdie on the par-5 15th and Young carded a rare bogey on the hole behind him, but the deficit ballooned back to five when Young made birdie on No. 17.
Echavarria may not have had the most consistent season, but when he sniffs contention he tends to stick around. He has just two top-10 finishes in 2025 with those coming in the form of a playoff loss to Nick Taylor at the Sony Open and more recently a T6 at the Rocket Classic where he finished only two strokes outside of that playoff.
Notable bubble boys
The final round of the regular season will do more than just crown the final regular season winner on the PGA Tour. Playoff positioning is the name of the game on Sunday as players such as Woodland and Thompson have moved themselves inside the projected cut-off with little room to spare.
As for those on the outside who could make a move, Cam Davis has dropped five spots to No. 72 but will have a chance to climb back inside with a good final round. First-round leader Joel Dahmen will need to catch Echavarria in second-place to make the postseason, but even making his way well inside the top 100 would be an accomplishment given the more competitive structure of the PGA Tour this fall where only 100 cards will be up for grabs. Dahmen entered the week No. 101 in the season-long race and is projected to move to No. 88.
| Chris Kirk | 59 | 73 | T3 | -12 |
|
Matti Schmid |
65 |
70 |
T13 |
-8 |
|
Davis Thompson |
68 |
78 |
T7 |
-10 |
|
Gary Woodland |
70 |
75 |
T9 |
-9 |
|
Erik van Rooyen |
71 |
64 |
MC |
N/A |
|
Cam Davis |
72 |
67 |
T37 |
-5 |
2025 Wyndham Championship updated odds and picks
Odds via DraftKings Sportsbook
- Cameron Young: -550
- Nico Echavarria: 13/2
- Aaron Rai: 28-1
- Chris Kirk: 45-1
This tournament might get frisky at certain points on Sunday, but Young will grab his first PGA Tour win and convert his five-stroke overnight lead. His putting has put him on a different level than past versions of himself and will allow him to fend off Echavarria and company.
