Scottie Scheffler finished solo second at the Cadillac Championship on Sunday, six shots behind Cameron Young, and the result marked his third consecutive runner-up finish. Scheffler closed with a final-round 71 to end at 13 under, but he never seriously closed the gap after Young pulled away.
Scheffler said after the round that he felt like he could not really get anything going. He said he was hitting it decent enough, but putts kept going around the hole and he could not build momentum. He opened with a 1-under 71 on Thursday, making three birdies in his first five holes before back-to-back bogeys on Nos. 10 and 11 slowed him down. Friday brought a bogey-free 67, leaving him seven shots off the lead, and he moved a little closer with a 3-under 69 on Saturday, when he stood six back. Asked then about Young, Scheffler said the tournament was in his hands.
The numbers behind Scheffler’s streak help explain why the finish still drew attention. Since 2022, he has been inside the top two through 54 holes 24 times and has converted 15 of those chances into victories, a 62.5% rate that leads the peers mentioned in the article. He entered the week after already finishing one shot behind Rory McIlroy at the Masters and losing a playoff to Matt Fitzpatrick at RBC Heritage in Hilton Head.
Sunday briefly looked like it might turn when Scheffler reached par-5 No. 1 in two and made birdie, and he also got up-and-down from 61 feet for birdie on No. 16. He finished with three straight birdies on Nos. 15-17 and shot 68 for the day, but the late push only trimmed the margin on the scorecard. He also took a bogey at the par-4 seventh and dropped another shot at the ninth.
What separated Young was the putting. Scheffler said Young played fantastic golf all week and called his work on the greens unbelievable, saying he hardly missed anything in the first 27 holes. Young and Scheffler were paired for the opening two rounds, and Scheffler said Young was just holing everything while playing quality shots and putts from anywhere all week. The result left Scheffler with another near miss and Young with a win built on the one area Scheffler could not match.
