Cadillac Championship: Cameron Young claims dominant wire-to-wire victory to win third PGA Tour event
Cameron Young posted a final round 68 to win the Cadillac Championship, his second PGA Tour victory of the season; Scottie Scheffler finished second for the third time in as many weeks, with the world No 1 battling through putting issues to end his week at 13-under par
Sunday 3 May 2026 23:10, UK
Cameron Young cruised to a dominant wire-to-wire victory at the inaugural Cadillac Championship on Sunday, winning his second PGA Tour title of the 2026 season by six shots at Trump National Doral Miami.
It was the second-highest winning margin on the PGA Tour this year, behind Justin Rose's seven-shot victory at the Farmers Insurance Open in January, with Young ending his week at 19-under par.
The Players champion started his final round six shots clear of a chasing pack of players, which included Scottie Scheffler, and increased his lead to 18-under par through nine holes, following birdies on the third, fifth and eighth holes.
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While Scheffler toiled with his putter for most of the round, the world No 1 mounted a late surge on Young, carding three birdies in his final four holes, to finish his week at 13-under par and finish second.
It is the third time in as many weeks Scheffler has placed as a runner-up, notably losing out to Rory McIlroy at The Masters in April, before he was beaten by Matt Fitzpatrick in a play-off at the RBC Heritage.
Despite Scheffler's best attempts to catch the leader, Young was unreachable, wrapping up his back nine with two bogeys and three birdies to win the third PGA Tour title of his career.
"I think the self-belief just continues to build," Young said. "I put myself in plenty of good places over the course of the last four, five years. Recently, I've started to come out on the better side of it.
"So, yeah, just excited for the next few weeks and moving on toward Charlotte and the PGA."
Young will take home a $3.6m (£2.65m) cheque after winning the fifth Signature Event of the season at Trump Doral, and is also set to move to third in the FedExCup Rankings.
Young dominates despite ruling penalty
On the second hole, Young was given a penalty stroke for making his golf ball move after grounding his club when addressing the shot.
Young earned plenty of respect from the crowd for immediately calling the rules official and taking responsibility for the error.
"It's just one of those, your heart sinks when you see it move, but it moved, and that's part of what golf's about," Young said. "There was no one who was going to give me a penalty there but myself, and I think I had about four of those on the PGA Tour now, so I need to start setting the club down a little softer.
"But yeah, just one of those times. I mean, I wasn't going to look the other way and say it didn't move when it rolled over an inch forward, so it's just unfortunate, but I handled it really well."
He bounced back in brilliant fashion, with Young finding the heart of the green with his approach shot, before sliding a long putt into the hole to save par.
"The worst case, realistically, was I made bogey and I still had a three, four or five-shot lead, whatever it would have been at the time," he added on the penalty. "Really unfortunate, and I really would like to have the one back that I had to give there, but at the end of the day, if I had to pick a time to give one back, it just wasn't the worst time."
Scheffler struggles, as Scott thrives in the rain
Scheffler had cut a seven-shot gap to Fitzpatrick at last month's RBC Heritage to force a play-off. But today, the world No 1 struggled with his putter, missing a birdie chance on the third hole before leaving an eagle putt short of the cup on the fourth.
The American's flatstick continued to beleaguer him, and after he made a three-putt on the par-three ninth hole, Scheffler vented his frustrations to his caddie, Ted Scott.
"I felt like I couldn't really get anything going," Scheffler said. "I was hitting it decent enough. Just putts were going kind of around the hole. Tough to get a lot of momentum. I hit it pretty nicely to start, just didn't hole the putts I needed to.
"I made a little bit of a sloppy bogey on hole nine, where I felt like I hit a good bunker shot and a good putt, and just little stuff like that. I just didn't really get enough momentum going. Wasn't hitting it close enough and wasn't holing those 15 to 20-footers when I needed them."
Scheffler bounded back in incredible fashion, draining a long uphill 20ft putt for a birdie on the 10th before birdieing three of the last four holes to cap off his week with a round of 68. Despite missing out on another victory, Scheffler will rise to No 1 in the FedEx Cup standings.
"Overall, some good takeaways from this week," Scheffler added. "Cam played fantastic golf all week. I played with him three out of the four days, and he was hitting a lot of quality shots and making putts from anywhere. He was going to be a tough man to beat this week."
Inclement weather forced tournament officials to postpone the final round by two hours, and when the tournament resumed on its final day, some players saw their chance to capitalise on the soft conditions and post a big score.
Ben Griffin and Adam Scott were two of them. Despite a bogey on the 18th, Griffin enjoyed an excellent round, posting four birdies to climb up two places to secure third place at 12-under par.
Scott, meanwhile, surged 21 places up the leaderboard on Sunday to T4, after posting a flawless eight-under par 64 to end his week at 11-under par. It is only the second time the Australian has finished inside the top five this season.
"That's good playing around here, for sure," the 2013 Masters champion said.
"Especially yesterday in the wind, I played really, really nicely. I was so disheartened after Friday's round; my putting was just so bad.
"I know a lot of guys have struggled with grain and stuff this week. But just felt like I'm playing good and I'm just not getting anything out of it. So, it's an incredible game because two days later, I feel really good about things, sitting here talking with you."
After gaining his first PGA Tour card last week with a victory alongside his brother Matt at The Zurich Classic, Alex Fitzpatrick's brilliant form continued, with the Englishman surging up the leaderboard by seven places to finish T9 at nine-under par.
His compatriot, Rose, was playing for the first time with his new McLaren clubs, but the 2013 US Open champion endured a tough week, slumping to end his week at two-over par and T65 on the leaderboard.
'Young's career path similar to Scheffler's'
Sky Sports Golf analyst Paul McGinley likened Young's career trajectory to Scheffler's, saying:
"He's always been a world-class player," McGinley said. "What did he have, seven second-placed finishes before he went on to win?
"It's a similar trajectory and career path that Scottie Scheffler had, who had a lot of second-placed finishes before he broke through. But once they break through that glass ceiling of winning on tour, then they seem to go to a different level."
McGinley also explained Scheffler was too slow to get going on Sunday.
"Scheffler came out of the blocks slow," he said.
"We talk a lot about how great this player is, how we haven't seen the levels of consistency since Tiger Woods, and yet he seems to come out of the blocks slow all of the time. He's done it again this week; he shot 71 in round one, while Young shot 64 - that's the tournament right there.
"He did the same at The Masters, he was 12 shots behind Rory McIlroy at halfway and ended up only losing by a shot. He's got to fix that if he's going to go on and win another major, which we know he's well capable of."
What's coming up next?
The PGA Tour heads to Charlotte, North Carolina, next week for another Signature Event, The Truist Championship at Quail Hollow Club.
Watch all four rounds of the Truist Championship live on Sky Sports. Early round coverage commences on Thursday from 12.30pm on Sky Sports+. Get Sky Sports or stream golf with no contract.
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