Champions Hit Their Mark in Epic Foul-Up!

Cameron Young won the biggest event of his career at the Players Championship on Sunday. Getty Images PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Days (and likely months) before Cameron Young arrived on the 18th green with a chance to win the Players Championship, new PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp envisioned a grand finale unlike any in tournament history.

“I’m very excited,” Rolapp told NBC Saturday. “We’re going to drop the ropes on 18 when the final group comes up so the fans can actually experience that championship moment with the leader, and hopefully, with the eventual champion. It’s a tradition I’ve heard a lot of fans want back, so we’re going to do it this weekend.

” It was only fitting that Rolapp’s dream of a winner’s spotlight was foiled by Young — a character whose very essence repels the spotlight like a cockroach to a high beam. If Rolapp were to choose the antithesis of a star golfer under the Tour’s new high-flying vision of consequence, significance and showmanship, Young might be the golfer he drew — a low-key, low-profile introvert who treats fame with a wariness bordering on neurosis. Young, after all, is the golfer whose press conference was briefly interrupted on Friday afternoon when he spoke so quietly that reporters standing less than five feet in front of him could not make out his answer.

He is the golfer who wouldn’t dare attend (or worse, pontificate upon ) Rolapp’s porcelein state-of-the-state presser from PGA Tour headquarters on Wednesday. And he is the golfer who could be found repeatedly at TPC Sawgrass in one of the places PGA Tour players are loath to visit: The large hill to the aft side of the course’s enormous clubhouse, where he spent time after multiple rounds chasing after his three children (two boys and girl) in endless pursuit of a large rubber golf ball. So who better to claim the title in Rolapp’s first go-around at the biggest event of the Tour season than Young?