Cameron Young has shown promise ever since he burst onto the circuit. His impressive debut campaign for the PGA Tour was full of praises. But to make it even sweeter, Cameron has a memoir to show for his stellar performance as he won the Arnold Palmer Award for the Rookie of the Year 2022 PGA Tour.
Cameron Young succeeds his fellowmate – Will Zalatoris from the Wake Forest school who received the Palmer award last year. Before this, Young finished 5 times in a runner-up position which included the British Open. This award was awarded to him based on the votes of his peers.
A close at 65 with a 17-foot eagle putt at the British Open, Cameron was just short of the first position finishing behind the Australian golfer Cameron Smith. Young received a thumping 94% votes of the members to clinch the award ahead of Tom Kim from South Korea and Sahith Theegala, the American.
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Young was quite thrilled to be sharing the momnt with his parents watching. A successive victory for the Wake Forest alums, Will Zalatoris couldn’t hold himself from congratulating his fellow alumni in a full – ‘from one Deamon Deacon to another’ style. Quite ecstatically expressing his happiness for Young’s victory, it showed how much it meant for Zalatoris to see someone carrying the name of his school.
Webb Simpson just crashed Cameron Young’s press conference. “From one (Wake Forest) Demon Deacon to another” and he presented him the PGA Tour rookie of the year trophy. Nice moment, Simpson said how proud he was of Young.
— Scott Eisberg (@SEisbergWCIV) October 19, 2022
“I know the namesake Arnold Palmer obviously was a giant in the game of golf and we have him to thank for a lot of what we do today, what the PGA TOUR is,” states Young who was reminiscing his old school days remmebering how stromg of a rookie class he had. “I know it’s voted by my peers, so it’s a huge honor to be thought of in that way, just to kind of finish the year that way.”
A whopping $6.5 miilion earned, Cameron Young set a record for so much money by a rookie in a single season. PGA Tour Commisioner Jay Monahan said – “Congratulations to Cameron Young on being voted PGA Tour Rookie of the Year by his peers,” PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said in a news release.”
Here's a story Will Zalatoris told about Cameron Young this past fall from their college days at Wake, which you might hear about today on the broadcast when they play together at the #PGAChampionship
Guessing Cam will have a real warmup today.
— Christopher Powers (@CPowers14) May 22, 2022
Scottie Scheffler did the same in 2020 when he won the Rookie of the Year without a tournament victory. Currently he’s World No. 1 with multiple tournaments and a major to his name. “I’m sure you’ll see him have a breakout year and win a couple of times, be on the top of some leaderboards again,” Scheffler stated. Considering this, things are looking only on the upside for Cameron Young at the moment.
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