Cameron Young won the Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral by six shots on Sunday, and he did it in the most Cameron Young way possible. He started the final round with a six-shot lead through 54 holes, kept piling on at the 7,700-yard Blue Monster and walked off with his second victory of the young season.
The win was built where golf tournaments usually get tightest: on the greens. Young led the field in Strokes Gained: Putting and picked up more than seven shots on the field with his putter, turning a comfortable lead into a runaway. Scottie Scheffler finished runner-up, his third second-place finish in as many starts, and he said the first 27 holes were a blur. “First 27 holes I don't think he missed anything, really. It was nuts,” Scheffler said. “Guy was just holing everything. When you're hitting really good shots and holing a lot of putts, that's a recipe to run away with a golf tournament.”
Young had broken free from the pack on Friday's second round at Trump National Doral and was five shots clear at the halfway point before stretching that margin to six through 54 holes. The result gave him his second win in a season that has already doubled his TOUR victory total from before 2026. His previous victory came last summer at the Wyndham Championship, and he added THE PLAYERS Championship earlier in 2026.
The turnaround has been striking for a player who was a mainstay on major leaderboards since 2022 yet was outside the top 60 in the Official World Golf Ranking last summer and had to go to final qualifying to earn a place at the U.S. Open. That slide looked real at the time. The rebound now looks even more so, sparked shortly after the Wyndham win and a standout Ryder Cup performance.
Scheffler's latest runner-up finish fit a strange pattern as much as Young's victory did. He had already finished second at the Masters and the RBC Heritage, and Doral made it three times in as many starts. He still has the actual gold medal. Young, for his part, has another trophy, another convincing win and another answer to anyone wondering whether the rise is for real.
