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Review of the 2026 PLAYERS Championship | TPC Sawgrass
By TERRY LYONS, Editor of Digital Sports Desk
PONTE VEDRA BEACH - Older vs. Younger - the “age old” dilemma. A man who is 90 years old thinks hard and says, “Ah, would that I were only 80 years old,” according to French author Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757) who wrote it down in French, of course.
Taking it a step further, a man 60 years old, wishes he were 20 or 30 years younger, especially reliving life with all he’s learned to appreciate during that time. Whatever it is to dream of - maybe 10 years younger, 20 years, 25 years?
Personally, I wish I were Cameron Young. Or, at the least, I wish I had Young’s golf game on Sunday. Young closed like a freight train, as they say in the horse racing world, chasing down a very good (68) Matt Fitzpatrick to take The PLAYERS Championship by one stroke.
Cameron Young (1st/-13), 28-year-old, earned his second win on TOUR in his 104th start (2025 Wyndham Championship);. It was his second win in his last 11 starts after going winless in his first 93 starts on TOUR, notching seven runner-up finishes during that span.
Young earned his third consecutive Top-10 finish of the 2026 season (T7/The Genesis Invitational, T3/Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard), his second streak of three consecutive Top-10s on TOUR (T3/2022 RBC Heritage, T2/2022 TruistChampionship, T3/2022 PGA Championship).
Young earned 750 FedExCup points and moves from No. 12 to No. 2 in the FedEx Cup standings, his highest rank after any week in his TOUR career. His four-stroke comeback matched the fifth-largest final-round comeback in PLAYERS Championship history and matched the largest comeback of the 2026 season on TOUR (4/Chris Gotterup/2026 WM Phoenix Open).
In four previous appearances at THE PLAYERS Championship, he finished MC (2022), T51 (2023), T54 (2024) and T61 (2025).
The PLAYERS | Final Leaderboard
1 Cameron Young 68 67 72 68 275 (-13)
2 Matt Fitzpatrick 70 69 69 68 276 (-12)
3 Xander Schauffele 69 65 74 69 277 (-11)
4 Robert MacIntyre 72 72 65 69 278 (-10)
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What They’re Saying
Winners & Losers from Sunday at The PLAYERS (ESPN)
Rory Ponders Prep for The Masters (ESPN)
Young Etches Name at PLAYERS with “The Best Shot of My Life” (PGATourCom)
Sporting Goods and Golf Industry News
Mental Health (Golf Week)
Winner’s Bag from The PLAYERS (Golf Week)
On This Day in Golf History
March 16, 1975 - Playing without a pitching wedge for six holes, Jack Nicklaus shot a final round (68) to win the Doral Eastern Open in Miami. The head of the Nicklaus pitching wedge flew off at the practice range causing one of his business associates to find some quick-dry glue and repair the club mid-round. - Courtesy of Randy Walker, Author of On This Day in Golf History, available via Amazon.com and by clicking HERE
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