Cameron Young is finally a PGA Tour winner. The former Rookie of the Year dominated the field all week at Sedgefield Country Club to runaway with a six-shot victory at the 2025 Wyndham Championship.
With the win, Young becomes the 1,000th different winner in PGA Tour history and fulfills the promise he showed early in his career. Young entered this week as a seven-time runner-up on the PGA Tour, but had never been able to get that breakthrough victory. Young looked further away from that first win than ever to start the 2025 season, but he has steadily played his way into form and looked to be a threat again in the second half of the year.
Now he can officially call himself a PGA Tour winner thanks to a spectacular week driving and putting in Greensboro. Young combined his length off the tee with accuracy to finish second in strokes gained off the tee, and fell in love with the fast greens at Sedgefield to lead the field in strokes gained putting.
His final round started with a hiccup, as he made a mess of the first hole with a bogey, trimming his advantage to four shots and creating a brief bit of hope for the field that he might be feeling the nerves and come back to them. He erased those hopes swiftly by making five consecutive birdies to extend his lead to nine and put both hands firmly on his first title. That heater was more than enough for Young as he cruised around the back nine at Sedgefield, happy to plot his way around with pars and bogeys to ensure he didn’t create any disasters, shooting a final round 68 to finish at 22 under, six ahead of Mac Meissner in second.
Young did the heavy lifting early in the week, going 62-63-65 in the first three rounds to open a five-shot advantage coming into Sunday, and with the rest of the field stressing over FedEx Cup points and trying to earn their way into next week’s St. Jude Championship in Memphis, no one ever threatened to make a real run at him in the final round.
With the win, he vaults up from 40th to 16th in the FedEx Cup standings himself, effectively securing a spot in the Tour Championship in three weeks. He also adds his name to the list of Ryder Cup hopefuls, as he would love to represent the United States in his home state of New York. Vice captain Webb Simpson admitted after his final round on Sunday that Young has created another conundrum for Keegan Bradley when it comes to captain’s picks.
“Man, I mean, Cam’s a New Yorker, I know he loves that golf course,” Simpson said. “Anytime you’re about to win by 10, you’ve got to talk about him. And he certainly has the right game for that golf course. He’s just adding his name to the list of many guys that are hard for us to say no to.”
That decision will have to wait for two more weeks, but for now, Young can finally shed the label of being one of the best players yet to win on the PGA Tour and head into golf’s postseason in great form and with a ton of confidence. Grade: A+
Here are the rest of the notables on the leaderboard at the 2025 Wyndham Championship.
2. Mac Meissner (-16): Meissner began the week 152nd in the FedEx Cup points and will finish 86th. While that’s not enough to get into the playoffs, he’s now given himself a great chance going into the fall events to lock up a top 100 spot and the full-time status that comes with it. That’s a huge deal for a guy who was well outside that range coming into the week, and while it wasn’t a win, this could be a life-changing kind of performance for Meissner. Grade: A-
T3. Mark Hubbard (-15): Hubbard came one shot away from making the playoffs, as he couldn’t roll in a birdie on the last that would’ve gotten him inside the top 70. He needed to finish in a two-way tie for second or better this week to make the top 70. However, he still moves from on the bubble for that top 100 after starting the week 98th all the way up to 77th, and will have far less stress on his plate going into the fall season. Grade: A-
T5. Jackson Koivun (-14): The amateur star out of Auburn has now finished inside the top 11 in his last three starts on the PGA Tour, and looks like a serious threat for when he turns pro next year. PGA Tour stars have one more year to get ready for Koivun as he returns to Auburn in the fall. Grade: A-
T5. Chris Kirk (-14): The veteran entered the week in 73rd and needed a strong showing to play his way into the playoffs and did just that. He’ll go to Memphis in 61st, which has a real shot at cracking the top 50 to reach the BMW Championship and, most importantly, gets players into all eight signature events next season. Grade: B+
T11. Davis Thompson (-12): We’ve talked a lot about the guys that were able to grind their way into the playoffs, but Thompson represents the flip side of that coin. He poured in a 47-footer on the 15th to get himself inside the top 70 and just needed to close his round out with three pars, but a bogey on the 18th dropped him back to 71st to make him the odd man out of the playoffs. Grade: C+
T23. Gary Woodland (-9): Like Thompson, Woodland began his day just inside that top 70 but shot an even par 70 on Sunday to fall back 14 spots on the leaderboard and end up in 72nd. He was a fan favorite this week as his comeback from brain surgery has been an unbelievable story, but he will fall just short of the playoff spot he wanted so badly. Grade: C
T31. Matti Schmid (-7): Schmid started the week 70th and finishes the week 70th, making the playoff cut on the number. He had a disastrous first 11 holes on Sunday and was +5 for his day and back to 73rd in the points after a double on No. 11, but he closed with kick to make three straight birdies to end his round. That ended up being just enough when Thompson’s par putt missed on the 18th to get into the playoffs, and he’ll be headed to Memphis. Grade C+
