Cameron Young's PGA Tour breakthrough was always just a matter of time
It's just that the longer it was taking, the more it was becoming a thing for Young, who had done just about everything in golf but win on the PGA Tour.
It was taking much longer than anyone — most of all Young himself — had anticipated.
Finally, in the Wyndham Championship on Sunday at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., it happened.
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