Cameron Young Voted 2022 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA -- The PGA Tour recently announced that Scarborough native Cameron Young has been named the 2022 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year as voted by the TOUR's membership for the 2021-22 season.
The 25-year-old will recieve the Arnold Palmer Award for winning Rookie of the Year. He was selected for the honor over Tom Kim and Sahith Theegala, recieving 94 percent of the vote.
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Young, who was a 2021 Korn Ferry Tour graduate, made his Presidents Cup debut for the victorious U.S. Team in September, earned five runner-up finishes and ended his rookie season No. 19 in the FedExCup standings.
“Congratulations to Cameron Young on being voted PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year by his peers,” said PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan. “Cameron’s career has seen a remarkable rise over the last several years, and he quickly became a favorite among fans last season with the style in which he attacks the golf course. And of course, given Cameron’s Wake Forest ties, receiving the Arnold Palmer Award as PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year will certainly hold a special significance for him.”
Young's runner-up finishes in 2022 came at the Sanderson Farms Championship, The Genesis Invitational, Wells Fargo Championship, The Open Championship and Rocket Mortgage Classic.With five second-place results, Young tied the most by any player in a single season over the last 40 years, with Vijay Singh in 2003 the last to accomplish the feat. Young also recorded a pair of T3s at the RBC Heritage and PGA Championship, falling one stroke out of a playoff in each. The nine players that finished ahead of Young in his seven top-three results are all currently ranked in the top 25 of the Official World Golf Ranking.
He earned the most money in a single season by a rooke in PGA TOUR history, a record previously held by Xander Schauffele in 2016-17.
Young played collegiate golf at Wake Forest and graduated in 2019. He grew up playing at Sleepy Hollow Country Club where his father, David, is the Director of Golf. During his amateur years, he won a slew of Metropolitan Golf Association (MGA) and Westchester Golf Association events. He was the MGA's 2015 Player of the Year. He also frequented NYSGA Championships throughout his teens. In 2017, he became the first amateur to win the New York State Open.
