Updated May 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m. ET
Cameron Young held a significant lead after the second round of the 2026 Cadillac Championship.The tournament is a 72-man, no-cut signature event on the PGA Tour schedule.It is being played at the Blue Monster course at Trump National Doral for the first time since 2016.Gary Woodland discussed managing his PTSD on the course following his 2023 brain surgery.
The 2026 Cadillac Championship, a new event on the PGA Tour’s 2026 schedule, finished up its second round at the Blue Monster at Trump National Doral on Friday.
This is a 72-man, no-cut tournament with everyone playing all four days, so there was no normal Friday afternoon rush to the cutline.
2026 Cadillac Championship leaderboard
See all the second-round tee times and pairings. Keep tabs on the scores from all 72 golfers all week on the Cadillac Championship leaderboard.
Here’s a look at the leaderboard after 36 holes of play.
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The Cadillac Championship is one of eight signature events on the PGA Tour’s 2026 schedule and one of five with no cut.
Cameron Young settles into lead
After posting birdies on three of his first five holes, Cameron Young bolted out to a three-stroke edge over the field as of 3:30 p.m. Young, who has climbed to fourth in the Official World Golf Ranking, is off to a banner start to the year, making the cut in all eight events in which he’s played. Of course, he captured the title at the Players, but he also has top-3 finishes at both the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Masters.
Young rolled on, and finished the day with a 67, so he’s sitting at 13 under and with a sizeable edge. But he understands that could easily change by the time he gets back on the tee on Saturday.
“I think you have to be ready for them to be low,” he said. “I don’t know exactly what the weather looks like, but there’s been scoring in the morning every day out here. There were a couple guys that went nuts this morning. I feel like you have to be ready for that.
“I may have a two- or three- or four-shot lead starting tomorrow, but it just goes away so fast out here, there’s no sense really playing like you have a four-shot lead, you might as well play like you’re four back.”
Average day for Spieth, but he’s hanging around
Jordan Spieth didn’t have the same magic on Friday that he did on Thursday, especially with the putter, but a 71 kept him in a tie for third place with Nick Taylor at 8 under. And incredibly, while the field has struggled mightily in the final few holes, Spieth birdied No. 16 and then added another on the difficult 18th hole.
“That was one of the harder holes I’ve played on the PGA Tour today. So getting a birdie there felt like a huge steal,” he said. “Just wanted to hit the putt hard enough. They were pretty slow and bumpy this afternoon. I hadn’t really made much and I got one to fall in on 17, made the hole look like it existed. Then sometimes that’s all you need.
“What did I do best? Probably, I kept just kind of underreacted to things, which is what I’ve been working on. Yesterday I caught a couple nice breaks, today I had a couple that kind of hung on the edges of rough, bunker, or just kind of were as anything when its wind happens on hard courses you can get in some tough spots. I just didn’t react and made sure that bogey was my worst score. Then you never know. Birdieing two of the last three was a huge bonus heading into the weekend with Cam posting 13.”
J.T. Poston came out hot on Friday
It’s been an incredible opening to J.T. Poston’s round on Friday as he birdied each of the first five holes to get to 6 under par for the tournament as of 10:30 a.m. ET.
Poston, who has three PGA Tour victories, has not finished in the top 20 in nine starts this season.
He did, however, have some obstacles to contend with:
Woodland in a good place at Doral
Gary Woodland, who shot a 68 in the first round, suffers from PTSD following 2023 surgery in which doctors removed a tumor in the area of his brain that controls fear and anxiety. He continues to experience hypervigilance with part of the tumor still resting against his brain. Woodland called the Masters “as hard a week as I’d had through this process,” adding he had not experienced “that much stimulation with the people that close to me.”
Woodland called the Cadillac a “normal” week. What helps is the signage on most tee boxes, which is not the case at Augusta National. Having something, or someone, behind him where spectators can get close makes him feel safer And PGA Tour security now regularly checks to see if any more is required.
“We have it set in stone now where we have it set up where I’m in a pretty good spot, but they check in on me every day,” he said. “It’s definitely easier out here than it is (Masters) week for me.”
Woodland finished Friday with 69 and sits alone in fifth place.
Final two holes playing brutally hard at Doral
As expected, the closing holes at Doral have lived up to their reputation this week during the Cadillac Championship at Doral. In the opening round, the field was a collective 53-over on Nos. 17 and 18 and 79-under on the other 16 holes.
What happened in Friday’s first round at the Cadillac?
Cameron Young’s 8-under 64, a round that featured four birdies on the front and four on the back, paced the field. He credited his putter after his round.
“I feel like I made a billion feet of putts, which I think works most places. It’s just one of those days that each mistake I made I was not penalized as much as I could have been,” Young said. “And every time my ball got near the hole it seemed to want to go in.”
Meanwhile, Jordan Spieth, who’s tied with Alex Smalley for second, was looking like his old self on Thursday.
“Just have to stay really disciplined. Like you may hit a shot that something looks like can you get at a pin because the greens are big you just have to play away from it when you’re in the rough or something like that. I think it’s just, out here or any really hard golf course it’s just recognizing that the par is a score and that’s hard most of the courses we play it’s a sprint,” he said. “So when you’re playing well you want to keep doing that, but you got to take your medicine sometimes. So I did that okay today.”
What was the forecast for Friday at Doral?
Here’s a look at the weather conditions on Friday, which are similar to those on Thursday. Better early, windier as the day progresses.
How much money is on the line at the Blue Monster?
The total prize fund is $20 million, as it is at the other eight signature events in 2026, with the winner adding $3.6 million (before taxes) to his bank account.
Where are they playing the 2026 Cadillac Championship?
The PGA Tour is back at the Blue Monster at Trump National Doral for the first time since 2016 when the tournament was called the World Golf Championships – Cadillac Championship. The golf course is ranked 10th in Florida on the latest Golfweek’s Best 2025: Top public-access golf courses list. It’s a par 72 that will play 7,739 yards this week. It was originally designed by Dick Wilson in 1962. In 2014, Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner renovated the layout. The Blue Monster will host the PGA Tour for a 56th time in 2026. It’s one of nine current courses with more than 50 years of competition on the circuit.
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson share the mark of 19 under, with Lefty doing it in 2009 and Tiger matching him in 2013. Tiger won there four times in all. The course record is 61 by Stephen Ames in 2000 but the tournament also recognizes the 62s by Bubba Watson in 2012 and J.B. Holmes in 2015 as part of the “WGC era.”