Cameron Young Struggles With Windy Conditions In Second Round Of The Masters
Augusta Georgia Cameron young could only shake his head when asked about what the wind was doing in Friday’s Gusty second round of the 88th Masters at Augusta National Golf Club young who fought through a double berie on the 11th hole to shoot one over 73 didn’t have much to say about the wind it was gusting all day in the 25 mph range and sand was getting blown out of the 18th green bunkers late in the afternoon it’s very windy and the trees are all like 90,000 ft tall young said exaggerating about the length of the trees the 26-year-old former Wake Forest star is appearing in his third Masters he finished up his first round on Friday morning in good shape after a two under 70 he worked his way to 5 under on the front side thanks to a birdie at the eighth hole he was still at 4 under as he headed to our men corner but pulled a five iron into the water on the left and took a double bogey to fall back to two under I hooked a five iron didn’t hook a five iron on 13 and made a nice par on 12 he said about making par on 12 and buggying the 13th it’s a tricky stretch the wind is all over the place and nowhere at all and I’m just trying to take the best guess as you can when you guess wrong the ball goes in the water pretty much every time I think that sums it up young who has yet to get that elusive first PGA to in was the tours Rockie of the year in 2022 he missed the cut in his first Masters in 2022 with a pair of 77s but used that experience to help him last year finish in a Ty for 7th in last year’s Masters he carved out a 4 under 68 on Sunday to Vault up the leaderboard Listen Now And subscribe Apple podcasts Google podcasts Spotify RSS feed sound stack all of our podcasts this time around young can go into Attack Mode on the weekend and because he’s one under isn’t that far out of the lead very much the same as the last two days young said I don’t think it’ll play this difficult unless the greens get unbelievably firm I think I’ll have plenty of opportunities and we’ll see what happens following around young this week is his father and swing coach David who is a retired teaching pro Cameron grew up around the game of golf and David was an award-winning teaching pro at Sleepy Hollow Country Club in scarber New York David said that now that he’s retired he’s been able to spend more time with his son to keep his swing sharp Cameron likes that aspect of his team as he looks ahead to the rest of the season he’s been able to spend some more time with me but he’s been my coach my whole life young said this is Young’s 61st career tournament on the PGA tour and he he has seven runner-up showings and 15 top 10 finishes he came into this week with eight tournaments played in and eight Cuts made and is 23rd on the FedEx Cup points list his best finish was in mid-march when he was second at the valpar championship shooting four rounds in the 60s
