Cameron Young betting profile: PGA Championship
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In his last competition at the Wells Fargo Championship, Cameron Young concluded the weekend at 3-over, good for a 34th-place finish. He enters play in the 2024 PGA Championship May 16-19 looking for better results.
The PGA Championship tournament and course info
- Date: May 16-19, 2024
- Location: Louisville, KY
- Course: Valhalla Golf Club
- Par: 71 / 7,609 yards
- Previous winner: Brooks Koepka
At the PGA Championship
- Young's average finish has been third, and his average score 4-under, over his last two appearances at the PGA Championship.
- In 2023, Young missed the cut (with a score of 9-over) in his most recent appearance at the PGA Championship.
- With numbers of 4.78 in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee (seventh in field), 5.32 in SG: Approach the Green (seventh), and 4.191 in SG: Putting (13th), Brooks Koepka won this tournament in 2023.
- Koepka's average driving distance was 319 (fourth in field), he hit 61.11% of greens in regulation (29th), with 26 putts per round (first) en route to his win last year.
Young's recent history at the PGA Championship
Date | Result | Round Scores | To Par |
---|---|---|---|
5/18/2023 | MC | 74-75 | +9 |
5/19/2022 | 3 | 71-67-67-71 | -4 |
Young's recent performances
- Young has posted one top-five finish and two top-10 finishes over his last five events.
- Over his last five events, Young has finished within three shots of the leader once and carded a score that's better than average twice.
- He has finished with an average score of -2 those five times he's made the cut.
- In terms of driving distance, Cameron Young has averaged 308.6 yards in his past five starts.
- Young is averaging -1.083 in terms of Strokes Gained: Putting in his past five tournaments.
- Young is averaging 1.001 Strokes Gained: Total in his past five tournaments.
Young's advanced stats and rankings
- Young has put up a Strokes Gained: Off the Tee average of 0.358 this season (32nd on TOUR). His average driving distance (303.7 yards) ranks 44th, while his 67.6% driving accuracy average ranks 35th.
- In terms of Strokes Gained: Approach, Young ranks 22nd on TOUR, posting an average of 0.505, while he ranks 52nd with a Greens in Regulation mark of 67.44%.
- On the greens, Young's -0.154 Strokes Gained: Putting mark ranks 126th this season, and his 28.49 putts-per-round average ranks 55th.
Category | Overall TOUR Rank | Overall | Last 5 Starts |
---|---|---|---|
Average Driving Distance | 44 | 303.7 | 308.6 |
Greens in Regulation % | 52 | 67.44% | 61.94% |
Putts Per Round | 55 | 28.49 | 27.8 |
Par Breakers | 93 | 25.58% | 24.44% |
Bogey Avoidance | 32 | 13.31% | 15.83% |
Young's best finishes
- Young has taken part in 11 tournaments this season, earning two top-five finishes and four top-10 finishes.
- In those 11 tournaments, he made the cut on 11 occasions.
- Young, who has 873 points, currently ranks 31st in the FedExCup standings.
Young's best Strokes Gained performances
- This season, Young produced his best Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee performance at the Valspar Championship (March 2024), ranking No. 1 in the field at 5.055.
- Young posted his best Strokes Gained: Approach mark this season at THE PLAYERS Championship, ranking fifth in the field at 6.757. In that event, he finished 54th.
- In terms of Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green, Young's best effort this season was at The Sentry, where his 1.627 mark ranked 11th in the field.
- At the WM Phoenix Open in February 2024, Young recorded a Strokes Gained: Putting mark of 5.214, which was his best so far this season. That ranked seventh in the field.
- Young delivered his best Strokes Gained: Total mark this season (11.547) in March 2024 at the Valspar Championship, which ranked second in the field. He finished second in that tournament.
Young's Strokes Gained rankings
Category | Overall TOUR Rank | Overall | Last 5 Starts |
---|---|---|---|
Average Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee | 32 | 0.358 | 0.561 |
Average Strokes Gained: Approach the Green | 22 | 0.505 | 2.420 |
Average Strokes Gained: Around the Green | 147 | -0.247 | -0.900 |
Average Strokes Gained: Putting | 126 | -0.154 | -1.083 |
Average Strokes Gained: Total | 50 | 0.463 | 1.001 |
Young's past results
Date | Tournament Name | Result | Round Scores | To Par | FedExCup Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 18-21 | PGA Championship | MC | 74-75 | +9 | -- |
June 1-4 | the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday | MC | 74-75 | +5 | -- |
June 8-11 | RBC Canadian Open | 57 | 71-72-74-70 | -1 | 5 |
June 15-18 | U.S. Open | 32 | 72-70-68-73 | +3 | 24 |
June 22-25 | Travelers Championship | 60 | 67-69-72-67 | -5 | 5 |
July 6-9 | John Deere Classic | 6 | 65-64-71-68 | -16 | 81 |
July 20-22 | The Open Championship | 8 | 72-68-66-73 | -5 | 91 |
July 27-30 | 3M Open | MC | 71-69 | -2 | -- |
August 10-13 | FedEx St. Jude Championship | 31 | 67-71-69-67 | -6 | 92 |
August 17-20 | BMW Championship | 15 | 67-71-68-68 | -6 | 200 |
November 2-5 | World Wide Technology Championship | 54 | 65-74-72-64 | -13 | -- |
November 16-19 | The RSM Classic | 38 | 66-68-68-68 | -12 | -- |
November 30 - December 3 | Hero World Challenge | 15 | 69-71-69-74 | -5 | -- |
January 4-7 | The Sentry | 33 | 68-67-74-65 | -18 | 27 |
February 1-4 | AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am | 70 | 71-74-70 | -1 | 6 |
February 8-11 | WM Phoenix Open | 8 | 67-67-66-71 | -13 | 78 |
February 15-18 | The Genesis Invitational | 16 | 72-66-69-70 | -7 | 115 |
February 29 - March 3 | Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches | 4 | 65-69-71-66 | -13 | 104 |
March 7-10 | Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard | 36 | 73-70-71-76 | +2 | 21 |
March 14-17 | THE PLAYERS Championship | 54 | 70-69-73-74 | -2 | 9 |
March 21-24 | Valspar Championship | 2 | 69-69-68-68 | -10 | 300 |
April 11-14 | Masters Tournament | 9 | 70-73-72-73 | E | 180 |
April 18-21 | RBC Heritage | 62 | 67-71-76-70 | E | 8 |
May 9-12 | Wells Fargo Championship | 34 | 71-69-71-76 | +3 | 26 |
All stats in this article are accurate for Young as of the start of the PGA Championship.
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