Examining Cameron Young’s potential to rise to ‘superstardom’ on Tour | Golf Central | Golf Channel

Rich Lerner and Brandel Chamblee analyze Cameron Young’s current form and the areas of improvement needed in order to follow a path to “superstardom” on the PGA Tour. #Golf #GolfCentral #CameronYoung
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Cam, you made the turn. You were two under. Then you get five birdies and an eagle. What kind of momentum did you gain on that second nine? Yeah, the ball just started going in a little bit. I mean, the front nine could have been just about the same. Um had, you know, really nice chances throughout the front and just wasn’t able to make anything. And then, um, yeah, the back nine just started to see the ball go in a little bit. And um you know even the the couple holes that I you know made a couple pars in a bogey and every putt I hit on those holes very well could have gone into. So uh I felt like I was hitting quality putts and just was waiting around for a couple of them to go in. Kim you get the win in Greensboro but since that victory your finishes on the PGA Tour fifth, 11th, fourth and ninth. How would you describe the belief you have in your game right now in your career? It’s a lot higher than it has been at other times. Um certainly a lot higher than it was the beginning of this year. And that’s really all that I’m trying to do this week is kind of maintain the same progress kind of in a forward direction on some of that stuff. And um you know hopefully the golf takes care of itself. But if it doesn’t then I can look back and you know say I stuck to what we were going to do and keep moving on. Well played. We’ll see you tomorrow. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So Cameron Young uh trending in the right direction as Todd just alluded to. you know, he had those seven runner-up finishes and everyone was saying, “Hey, when’s this guy gonna finally break through?” He did. You heard that at Greensboro and he won by a mile there. It wasn’t the strongest field, but it’s PGA Tour field. They’re all very good. So, the temptation would be right now to say, “Okay, he’s on his way to superstardom.” But you want to sort of with all the greatest amount of respect, you want to just kind of pump the brakes a little bit on that. I’m curious why. Look, he does seem to save his best golf for the biggest moments. uh what we saw in the RDER Cup is evidence of that. What we’ve seen in major championships is evidence of that. Three top fives in major championships. Kind of when you look at that, you know, you can’t help but draw a parallel to Xander Schoffley who similarly would save his best golf for the biggest moments. But when you looked at Xander and you looked at all the data, the data said, “Look, I know he’s doing great in these major championships, but he’s underperforming.” I mean, relative to his data, what we saw Xander Schoffley do last year, you could have predicted it was there. He was great at every single aspect of the game. When you look at Cameron, there’s some holes in his game. Uh, yes, marvelous talent, hits it long, capable of handling the big moment. That says a lot about him, but he got to clean up his iron play. Uh, you know, iron play is the most important aspect of the game the last four years. Uh the best position he’s been is 87th in strokes gain approach uh 130th I think this year. Uh you know that’s a comparatively to the people you’re trying to beat in the major championships. That is a lot more 40footers and 30footers and 20footers when they got 25 footers 15footers and 10footers. Uh and that is just uh too much mountain to climb. Anything specifically you see with his iron play that is holding I do. So, look, you know, to hit a great iron shot, it’s it’s a little bit different than hitting it nine miles. You know, to hit it nine miles, uh, if you just want to increase your club head speed, uh, rotate and jump, but if you want to hit iron shots, you got to slide and cover. So, the rub is how you do both of those. And so, the greatest players manage to blend those perfectly. And that’s what Scotty Sheffller does. He’s got slide in his swing, but he’s also he got hip slide in his golf swing for sure. But you’ll hear a lot of people want to keep that hip inside the uh heel of the left foot, the lead foot. Well, that does help you hit it farther like a home run hitter. But the best don’t do that. They cover. They get that left hip out over the left foot, even beyond it sometime, while they simultaneously rotate and extend. So there you’ve got the perfect blend of everything. You got the power moves and rotation and extension. You got the cover moves or the accuracy moves in lateral slide and covering it. He’s got a little too much power moves and not enough accuracy move to cover it. He needs to cover it and trap it to become a better iron player. The risk is, do you want to abandon a strength to try to develop a weakness? Uh, and that’s where the risk comes in. What would you say if you had a seat at their table with with dad David who’s was a long time you know I think he’s such a good athlete that he could organically get there but I would set him up on a trackman and say look all we’re going to do is hit iron shots we’re going to hit cuts we’re going to hit draws we’re going to hit it high we’re going to hit it low and let’s tighten the circle let’s tighten the dispersion organically he would get there because he would correlate the accuracy when he gets on top of it say trying to feel like he’s punching it and organically he would get there. Never lose sight of the fact that these guys are geniuses of movement. I mean, Butch Harmon in his book talked about his father not saying a word to some great amateur player coming to see him and talked profusely to his sons about their golf swing. And they said, “Why are you always telling us stuff?” He didn’t tell him anything. And he said, “Because you you can,” and he didn’t use the word mess, but you can mess up talent in a hurry. And you guys don’t have any talent. Uh, you know, there’s a great story about Claude to his his uh sons, including Butch. Uh, and so when you look at a Cameron, there’s enormous talent there, and it comes with a lot of risk at messing up the DNA of his golf. He did strengthen what had been a weakness. That was the putting. If he can become a top 40, top 30 approach guy, then what it is, a guy who wins multiple times in a year. Yeah. Keeping a clear head amidst the chaos of a major championship is high level stuff. They’re not they don’t come along all the time. And this is why so much greatness was predicted of Xander Schoffley. It was evident that he could see clearly in the fog of a major championship. Uh and the same thing can be said of of of Cameron Young. Uh I got the sense in Xander that he was very confident about his future. Uh, I’m not going to say he was ebulent, but he was uplifting. Uh, I don’t get the same sort of of arrogance in Cameron Young. Maybe he just hides it, but being the of the walk is is is not a bad thing. Thinking you better than you are is not a bad thing. Now, it may not make you the best company in particular, but being inly arrogant and outwardly humble, uh, that’s a good thing for an athlete to be. Maybe he is inly arrogant and he he might be getting there. Uh Greensboro is a step. What he did at the Ryder Cup Yeah. is another step. This could be one as well. Absolutely. We We’ll see.