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Cameron Young held off Matt Fitzpatrick and chased down Ludvig Aberg to win the 2026 Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. getty images Sunday at TPC Sawgrass was set up to go one of two ways for Ludvig Aberg . Leading the field by three after 54 holes, the final round was bound to be either coronation or disaster.
The latter happened. And so did Cameron Young. Young started the final round in solo third and four back of Aberg, but he birdied the iconic par-3 17th to take a share of the lead and then made a tournament-winning par on the 18th to claim his first Players Championship title .
It’s the biggest win of Young’s PGA Tour career and just his second victory overall following his title at the Wyndham Championship last August. Young closed with a four-under 68, and at 13 under overall he beat Matthew Fitzpatrick by one. Aberg shot 76 and tied for fifth.
Aberg had a three-shot lead heading into the day over former college teammate Michael Thorbjornsen, but Thorbjornsen ejected from contention with a quadruple-bogey 8 at the par-4 4th hole. Aberg played good but not great golf on the front nine, making one birdie and one bogey to turn in even par and take a two-stroke lead over Ryder Cup teammates Robert MacIntyre and Fitzpatrick with nine to play. Soon Young joined that group at 11 under.
But things changed quickly for the leader on the back nine. On the par-5 11th, Aberg made his first big mistake of the day, hitting his approach into the water and making bogey. As Aberg missed his par putt, Fitzpatrick, in the pairing ahead, drained his short birdie putt to tie the lead at 12 under.