Cameron Young runs away with Wyndham Championship to claim first PGA Tour win

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It was only a matter of time before Cam Young won on the PGA Tour.
Though he's been in the mix plenty of times lately, he left absolutely no doubt at Sedgefield Country Club on Sunday.
Young, after briefly building up a massive eight-shot lead, cruised to a dominant six-shot win at the Wyndham Championship. It marked his inaugural Tour win after seven runner-up finishes in his career and four top-10 outings already this season. The win also earned him a $1.48 million check, which was part of an $8.2 million purse.
Young is now the 1,000th unique winner in PGA Tour history, too.
Young entered the final round with a five-shot lead already, thanks to his bogey-free 5-under 65 on Saturday. He grabbed an eight-shot lead at one point on Moving Day, too, after rattling off four straight birdies on his front nine.
While he opened with a bogey on Sunday after leaving his approach on the first just shy of the green, Young made up for it immediately. He made five straight birdies and reclaimed his eight-shot lead once again without any issue whatsoever. Young made the turn at 4-under for the day, and saved his par at the ninth with a huge approach from the thick rough right next to the cart path.
Though Young stumbled a bit at the end — he bogeyed the par-3 16th after missing an up-and-down par save, and then he made a second straight bogey at the 17th — it didn't matter one bit. He posted his final round 68 and rolled to the win.
Mac Meissner finished alone in second at 16-under, and Mark Hubbard and Alex Noren tied for third at 15-under on the week. Matti Schmid finished T31 with his 1-over final round, which moved him to No. 70 in the FedExCup standings. He's the last man into the Tour's postseason and will get to compete in next week's FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis as a result.
Davis Thompson, however, is the first man out. He went 2-under on Sunday, and even drained a 47-footer for a birdie late in the day to move inside the top-70.
Thompson, though, ended up falling back out to No. 71.
Young entered the week at No. 44 in the Official World Golf Rankings and was already a lock for the FedExCup Playoffs. But his win on Sunday will jump him up to No. 16 in the FedExCup standings, which is enough to send him through to the season-ending Tour Championship, and to No. 21 in the OWGR.
It's also going to move him to No. 15 in the Ryder Cup standings. He started the week at No. 19 with no path to move into an automatic bid spot — only the top six qualify for the U.S. Team that way — but Young is now undoubtedly in the mix to earn a captain's pick to make the team, especially if he can keep this push going through the first two rounds of the playoffs.
But regardless of whether or not he's representing the Americans next month or not, Young finally has a Tour win under his belt.