Cameron Young to reporter: "Thank you for reminding me!"

Cameron Young didn't seem to love a question by a reporter Wednesday.

06 Jul 2023

Cameron Young did not seem to be a fan of one question he received from a reporter Wednesday ahead of the John Deere Classic this week.

Young, 26, is one of the brightest young stars on the PGA Tour and is currently ranked 19th in the world as a result.

In his rookie year last season, the American racked up five runner-up finishes, just the seventh player since 1980 to do so.

However, he walked away without a win, despite so many close calls.

So far this season, Young has not been on the same pace, but he has still been playing some impressive golf.

Through 17 events, he's only missed two cuts and has three top 10s.

Again, however, Young continues to be win-less on the PGA Tour - currently listed as the top-ranked player in the world without a title.

Still, he's confident that his lack of results have not been reflective of how he's been playing.

"I think the finishes don't really capture how I've played," he told reporters on Wednesday. "I played really well at the U.S. Open and kind of missed everything for a couple of days and then made three doubles in a row on Sunday.

"So you look and say, oh, well, he shot, whatever, 2-over or 3-over for the tournament, but I was in 11th with seven holes to go, and I wasn't going to win, but I could have finished fourth. If it goes the other -- I hit one good shot and make a putt, all of a sudden I'm in 5th or 6th place. You are, like, man, you're having a great year because you have a 7th and a 5th in majors."

But that's not to say the topic of his win-less PGA Tour career hasn't become somewhat of a sensitive topic.

For the very first question of his press conference on Wednesday, Young was asked to speak about his lack of wins.

And it doesn't seem like he loved the question.

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"Thank you for reminding me," he said, though later adding:

"I would say it's something that I want to achieve. It's not something that I go to bed thinking about that it bothers me. If you look back, all of my good finishes -- I finished second a bunch of times. I don't know how many. I've lost by one and finished in third a couple of times.

"None of those tournaments were right here in my hands, and I threw them away. All of those I just played pretty well and somebody beat me. It wasn't like I had a two-shot lead and didn't win or something.

"So none of them bother me, and I don't feel like I've had a tournament in my hands. I think that would probably bother me for some period of time."

Young added that he's still confident that his breakthrough victory is just yet to come.

"But mostly what I take from those is just knowing that kind of what I just talked about. You're very close. Finishing second, you're playing good enough golf to win a PGA Tour event. All it takes is just sometimes a chip just falls in the edge instead of kind of just missing or sometimes you make a putt on the 71st hole that is 35 feet. Sometimes you don't," he said.

"I feel like just one of those times I'm going to have something like that happen, and it's going to go the other way. It's kind of just a waiting game. Keep working on the same stuff and getting better, and eventually things will go the other way."

Young's latest chance at earning his first PGA Tour victory is this week at TPC Deere Run in Illinois. He tees off Thursday for the first round at 1:05 p.m. local time.

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