by Greensboro, NC – Cameron Young did his best to win the Wyndham championship on Saturday.
He finished a second round 62 with two birdies in his last four holes in the morning, then carded four consecutive birdies on the nine before to build up to an eight -time advance. He cooled a little, but still pulled a third round 65 at the Sedgefield Country Club to improve 20 sous 190 and bring an advance of five strokes to Nico Echavarria until Sunday.
It marks the first advance of 54 holes from Young or co-directing on tour, and equivalent to the biggest advance of 54 holes in the history of the Wyndham championship.
Young, who played his university golf course at Wake Forest University nearby, is without victory on the PGA Tour in 94 departures and finished finalist seven times during his career, the most on tour since 1983. Does he feel like he has a monkey on his back he is trying to get rid of Sunday?
“Not really. If you had asked me two years ago, I would probably say yes, but if you come back, I finished second in a heap, I beat a lot. I played the right golf course in all these cases,” he said. “So, that’s all I am trying to do tomorrow. I’m starting in a good place, so I’m just trying to try to beat second place by as much as possible. This is my state of mind of the first tee on Thursday and that’s what I’m going to try to do tomorrow.”
Young, who is 14 years old under the first nine this week, leads the ground in brain vascular accidents won: put and rush. It is also second to SG: Off the tee and sg: tee to green. Talk about a recipe for success. The 28 -year -old said that he had decided to return to a draw, his favorite ball flight when he was younger, and that he operates through the first 54 holes.
“I might have subsided a driver who went to the right, but I think each other blow was from left to left,” he said. “I had the tendency to try to love what it was to hit something more straight and not to do it. Yeah, safe to say that I will probably do that tomorrow, to see what it does to me.”
Echavarria, 30, is the only player less than eight heads before the final round. The Colombian said that he had watched the classification on the Tour and was lagging behind for seven or eight blows and thought: “It is not normal.”
The Young Birdie sequence began at n ° 3 and included a 33 -foot putt that just fell on the front lip in the fourth. He made his only Bogey of the day – and just second for the week – at No. 14, but bounced with the Birdies at n ° 15 and 17.
Echavarria, twice winner of the tour, ranks second in the Young in SG: Put this week. He wrapped five birdies on the nine rear, including a 6 feet at the last. Despite the five -year follow -up, he said he loved his chances.
“Because I have already been there and I like to be in this position, I like to be in the final group,” he said. “I’m not going to hide tomorrow. Yes, we play tournaments to win. When I’m in the final group on Sunday, that’s why I put so much work there.”
Earlier this year, Tommy Fleetwood, who, with Young, would rank the best current players to never win on tour, wasted his chance to close the traveler championship while Keegan Bradley found him and stung him with a Birdie at the last.
“Until he does, it is this dream that I am sure that he has been held from an young age,” said Mark McCumber de Pga Tour Radio about Young. “It is wise enough to know that if it flashes or tries to protect everything from the guys who can draw 61, 62 here.”
Indeed, it is. Young said so much and promised to keep the gas pedal on Sunday. “I know there is an 8, a 9, a 10 sous there and I would like to be the one who shoots him as opposed to someone in the second or third place tomorrow,” he said.
