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Cameron Young, a Palm Beach Gardens resident, won The Players Championship, his second PGA Tour victory, earning $4.5 million.
Cameron Young , who lives in Palm Beach Gardens, won the The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida on Sunday, March 15 by shooting an overall 13-under 275. Matthew Fitzpatrick of North Palm Beach placed second, shooting 12-under. Fitzpatrick and Young are close friends and TGL teammates.
It was the second PGA Tour victory for the 28-year-old Young, who earned $4. 5 million. Cameron Young the golfer Young, a native New Yorker, settled in northern Palm Beach County after he graduated from Wake Forest in 2019 and joined the Dye Preserve Golf Club.
"The culture," he once said about the area, "evolves around golf. " Young, ranked No. 15 in the world entering The Players, is one of the more unassuming, unemotional golfers on the PGA Tour.
He often is among those who go unnoticed. Part of that is because he never did much to break out and make people notice. He previously won once on the PGA Tour, the 2025 Wyndham Championship.