Cameron Young

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — The first time Cameron Young played the Old Course at St. Andrews was one of his best moments in golf. The most recent on...

He was just inside the top 500 in the world a year ago. He has been around the game long enough to realize not to get too far ahead. Now he is No. 32, thanks to four top-three finishes, including at the PGA Championship, where he finished one shot out of a playoff at Southern Hills. He drove over the green on the par-4 12th, pitched back to 8 feet and holed it for birdie to reach 7-under par. But he three-putted for par on the 14th. “You could play every day here for a year and you would just scratch the surface of what you can know about this place. “So when we came out to hit our first tee shots with the R&A building right there, there were a bunch of R&A members presumably watching. “My dad asked for permission to play from the back tees. But in his short time back at St. Andrews, he learned enough about where to go and how to play the centuries-old course to get by just fine. Young, whose father is the longtime pro at Sleepy Hollow in New York, first came to Scotland in 2010 when he was 13. “Any time you set foot on the first tee or 18th green or anywhere, there’s just no hiding how special of a place it is,” Young said. He’s not even sure he played his best for his opening round.

Cameron Young shot 64 Thursday morning at the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews. See the clubs the American used.

PGA Tour rookie Cameron Young shot a bogey-free, 8-under-par 64 Thursday to establish the early lead at The Open Championship at St. Andrews in Scotland.

Woods hit his second shot on the opening hole out of a divot. Ernie Els, 52, used four birdies between the eighth and 12th holes to get to 5 under. At the 18th, he left an 84-foot eagle putt inches to the right of the cup for his final birdie. “And then made a few putts early, which kind of set the tone for the day. In Young’s debut at The Open, he came up one shot shy of tying the lowest first-round score in championship history. Seven of Young’s eight birdies came over the first 12 holes.

The Open Championship leader wanted to make sure that people understood his success story wasn't as surprising as it may look on paper.

He was in contention at the PGA Championship and is now out in front at The Open. "I lived on the lower course out there," Young explained. He shot a bogey-free round and carded a sterling 64 to put him at 8 under for the tournament.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — The first time Cameron Young played the Old Course at St. Andrews was one of his best moments in golf. The most recent on...

He was just inside the top 500 in the world a year ago. He has been around the game long enough to realize not to get too far ahead. Now he is No. 32, thanks to four top-three finishes, including at the PGA Championship, where he finished one shot out of a playoff at Southern Hills. He drove over the green on the par-4 12th, pitched back to 8 feet and holed it for birdie to reach 7-under par. But he three-putted for par on the 14th. “You could play every day here for a year and you would just scratch the surface of what you can know about this place. “So when we came out to hit our first tee shots with the R&A building right there, there were a bunch of R&A members presumably watching. “My dad asked for permission to play from the back tees. But in his short time back at St. Andrews, he learned enough about where to go and how to play the centuries-old course to get by just fine. Young, whose father is the longtime pro at Sleepy Hollow in New York, first came to Scotland in 2010 when he was 13. “Any time you set foot on the first tee or 18th green or anywhere, there’s just no hiding how special of a place it is,” Young said. He’s not even sure he played his best for his opening round.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — The first time Cameron Young played the Old Course at St. Andrews was one of his best moments in golf. The most recent on...

He was just inside the top 500 in the world a year ago. He has been around the game long enough to realize not to get too far ahead. Now he is No. 32, thanks to four top-three finishes, including at the PGA Championship, where he finished one shot out of a playoff at Southern Hills. He drove over the green on the par-4 12th, pitched back to 8 feet and holed it for birdie to reach 7-under par. But he three-putted for par on the 14th. “You could play every day here for a year and you would just scratch the surface of what you can know about this place. “So when we came out to hit our first tee shots with the R&A building right there, there were a bunch of R&A members presumably watching. “My dad asked for permission to play from the back tees. But in his short time back at St. Andrews, he learned enough about where to go and how to play the centuries-old course to get by just fine. Young, whose father is the longtime pro at Sleepy Hollow in New York, first came to Scotland in 2010 when he was 13. “Any time you set foot on the first tee or 18th green or anywhere, there’s just no hiding how special of a place it is,” Young said. He’s not even sure he played his best for his opening round.

After a third place finish at the PGA Championship a couple months ago, Cameron Young might have been on the radar of bettors this week at The Open ...

Tipico has no influence over nor are any such revenues in any way dependent on or linked to the newsrooms or news coverage. Only 10 opening-round leaders in the past 10 years failed to finish in the top six, and two ended up winning — Jordan Spieth in 2017 and Rory McIlroy in 2014. Louis Oosthuizen, who shot a 64 last year, is the only other player in the last 10 years with an opening round score as low.

Cameron Young has one of the best swings in golf, and he seized the early lead at the 2022 Open Championship.

“It meant he had pretty good mechanics from a young age. “Anybody who wants to get good at golf, they should make them play hockey,” he says. “Obviously there is also lots of hand-eye coordination and physical fitness stuff that comes with playing other sports but is hard to train.” In fact, it has the opposite to do with golf. It all started with his father and coach David Young, the head professional at Sleepy Hollow Country Club and an accomplished player in the MET section PGA in his own right. Young has come in for a lot of plaudits this season, and for good reason.

American Cameron Young led the way amid predicted low scoring on the first day of the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews but favourite Rory McIlroy was ...

Ever the showman Poulter milked the applause, standing with his hand up to his forehead peering into the distance in the direction of where his ball had disappeared into the hole. LIV Golf rebel Ian Poulter turned jeers into cheers as, having been booed by some fans on the first tee for his involvement in the Saudi-backed breakaway series, he was playing to the galleries by the par-four ninth hole when he holed a massive 160-foot putt for the tournament’s first eagle. He then reeled off three successive birdies from the fifth, where he picked up a shot despite his drive losing some yardage after hitting a stone marker in the middle of the fairway which designates the original boundary of the course.

A reporter clearly didn't do much research before asking the British Open leader about his background.

To reiterate, Cameron Young is not from the streets of New York. He grew up one one of the best golf courses in the country. He's not a country club kid in the true sense of the definition, but he literally lived at a country club all through his childhood. But hey, don't let the facts get in the way of a good story! If you watched any of those events—especially the PGA—you would be aware that Young's dad, David, is a PGA professional. He's the longtime head pro of Sleepy Hollow Country Club, a historic C.B. Macdonald track that's No. 62 on Golf Digest's latest list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses. NBD. And mind you, it's been a pretty well-documented background with him contending in so many tournaments during his rookie season, including the PGA Championship in May.

Making his tournament debut and playing just the sixth major of his career, Young carded eight birdies in a flawless 64.

A bristling Poulter, who recovered to post 69 in a tie for 10th, rejected hearing the jeers, but a nightmarish scenario for The R&A and a LIV Golf winner come Sunday is very real after Lee Westwood (-4), Bryson Dechambeau (-3) and Dustin Johnson (-4) tamed the Old Course. His humour now only extenuates his brilliance on the course, teasing playing partners Xander Schauffele (-3) and Morikawa after clattering the fairway stone on the fifth to hold up one of his crushing drives: “I still hit it past the other two.” Still in the tournament, just about, the 25-year-old, joined by fellow major champions Justin Thomas and Shane Lowry at even par, will need to go low on Friday to chip away at their eight-shot deficit to the dominant Cameron Young after a sublime round of 64. A scrappy opening round of 72 for Morikawa, salvaged with birdie on the 18th, saw him remove his hat and brush his hair in relief beneath the towering grandstands. “And I feel like every time the round did that to me today, I was able to come through it. So it might have looked easy, but there’s certain parts of the round that are challenging.”

In his British Open debut, Young plotted his way around the course in a gentle breeze and finished with a long two-putt birdie for an 8-under 64 for a two-shot ...

He was just inside the top 500 in the world a year ago. He has been around the game long enough to realize not to get too far ahead. Now he is No. 32, thanks to four top-three finishes, including at the PGA Championship, where he finished one shot out of a playoff at Southern Hills. He drove over the green on the par-4 12th, pitched back to 8 feet and holed it for birdie to reach 7-under par. “You could play every day here for a year and you would just scratch the surface of what you can know about this place. But he three-putted for par on the 14th. “So when we came out to hit our first tee shots with the R&A building right there, there were a bunch of R&A members presumably watching. “My dad asked for permission to play from the back tees. But in his short time back at St. Andrews, he learned enough about where to go and how to play the centuries-old course to get by just fine. Young, whose father is the longtime pro at Sleepy Hollow in New York, first came to Scotland in 2010 when he was 13. “Any time you set foot on the first tee or 18th green or anywhere, there’s just no hiding how special of a place it is,” Young said. He's not even sure he played his best for his opening round.

PGA Tour rookie Cameron Young made his Open Championship debut with an 8-under 64 at St. Andrews. Rory McIlroy shot a 66 and is in second after the first ...

"Xander and I talked about it. Scheffler tried to explain just how fast the links were playing by suggesting the ball was rolling faster on the fairways than on the greens. "It's the way the golf course is set up. He has had one of the better rookie seasons on the PGA Tour, and the 25-year-old New Yorker is not the least bit daunted by the stage. McIlroy looked free as ever at St. Andrews, his first time back for the Open since 2010. Young played smartly and took advantage of the birdie chances. Defending champion Collin Morikawa struggled with his putting and had a 72. "The way the golf course is designed ... to get better angles and better lines, you've got to hit across all the fairways. Just two months ago, he contended into the final hour of the PGA Championship until finishing one shot out of a playoff. "It's the fiddliest Open that I've played. "OK, the 18th at Carnoustie was like a runway, that fairway. Young and McIlroy didn't have to contend with as much wind in the morning, though St. Andrews has seen far stronger gusts over its centuries of golf.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — The first time Cameron Young played the Old Course at St. Andrews was one of his best moments in golf. The most recent one was ...

He was just inside the top 500 in the world a year ago. He has been around the game long enough to realize not to get too far ahead. Now he is No. 32, thanks to four top-three finishes, including at the PGA Championship, where he finished one shot out of a playoff at Southern Hills. But he three-putted for par on the 14th. “You could play every day here for a year and you would just scratch the surface of what you can know about this place. He drove over the green on the par-4 12th, pitched back to 8 feet and holed it for birdie to reach 7-under par. “So when we came out to hit our first tee shots with the R&A building right there, there were a bunch of R&A members presumably watching. But in his short time back at St. Andrews, he learned enough about where to go and how to play the centuries-old course to get by just fine. Young, whose father is the longtime pro at Sleepy Hollow in New York, first came to Scotland in 2010 when he was 13. A record score at St. Andrews on a good day for scoring was within reach. “Any time you set foot on the first tee or 18th green or anywhere, there’s just no hiding how special of a place it is,” Young said. He's not even sure he played his best for his opening round.

"Everything feels very settled," said Rory McIlroy, who sits two back of the lead after 18 holes at the 150th Open Championship.

Nice to get out there and shoot a number and get myself well under par.” Everything feels just sort of nice and quiet, which is a nice way to be. At 67 was Players champion Cameron Smith and Robert Dinwiddie, who birdied the last hole to get to 5 under. By day’s end, McIlroy trailed only Cameron Young, who contended in the PGA Championship and is looking for his first PGA Tour title. Still, all was well heading to Scotland, and McIlroy knew he had three top 10s in majors this year. It has been a dozen years since he tied for third in the Open at St. Andrews, a windblown, second-round 80 getting the best of him.