Cam Young has firmly established himself as one of the very best golfers on the planet over the past year or so.
It took Young 94 PGA Tour starts before he secured his first victory, but he hasn’t looked back since that win at the Wyndham Championship.
Since then, the 28-year-old New Yorker has played a star role for the United States Ryder Cup team at Bethpage Black, and he won The Players Championship in March.
Cam Young is now ranked as the fourth best golfer in the world but it’s a fair argument to make that he is actually the best player on the planet right now.
Young’s improved putting has taken him to another level in 2026 and he seems to be in contention to win almost every single week now.
Alex Fitzpatrick spent a lot of time with the 28-year-old during his spell at Wake Forest. The Englishman was a freshman while the American was in his senior year.
What Alex Fitzpatrick thought of Cam Young’s golf game at Wake Forest
Fitzpatrick obviously knows Young’s golf game pretty well, having played so regularly with the world number four during their college years.
When speaking on the Happy Hour with Smylie Kaufman, Alex Fitzpatrick responded when asked what he thought of Cam Young as a golfer when they played on the same team at Wake Forest.
“He was a crazy player,“ Fitzpatrick said.
“Like, he hit it a long way. His chipping was unbelievable, great approach play, and I think the only thing that kind of stopped him was his putting.
“But it was either he was winning or he was finishing 40th and there was no in-between.
“He was just yeah, he’s so talented. I love him.
“He kind of, I guess you could say took me under his wing, him and a couple of the seniors kind of, I guess, took a shine to me.
“So, I spent a lot of time with them. Maybe more than I should have, but no, it was great.
“I love them all to bits.“
Cam Young a major champion in the making
Young has obviously come on leaps and bounds since his college days.
He was clearly a supremely talented player back then, but as Fitzpatrick said, his putting held him back.
That was very much the case for the 28-year-old during his early years out on the PGA Tour as well.
However, he seems to have fixed that particular issue over the past nine months or so.
He was ranked seventh in strokes gained putting in 2025 and given the quality of his ball-striking, that makes him a very hard man to beat.
The next step for Cam Young will be to win a major championship, and it will surely only be a matter of time before that happens.
