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Wyndham Championship payouts: How much did Cameron Young earn for winning?
Cameron Young earned his first PGA Tour victory after winning the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Sunday, Aug. 3. Young finished at 22-under par at the event, six strokes ahead of second-place finisher Mac Meissner. While the 28-year-old Young had never won a PGA Tour event prior to Sunday's victory, he has had success at some of golf's biggest tournaments. He finished tied for fourth at this year's U.S. Open, In 2022, he finished second in the British Open and tied for third in the PGA Championship. With his victory at the Wyndham Championship, Young became the 1,000th first-time winner on the tour and will take home $1,476,000 in prize money. Young's portion of the winning comes from the prize fund that was shared across all competitors. 2025 Wyndham Championship purse The Wyndham Championship had a total purse of $8.2 million, with $1.476 million going to the winner. 2025 Wyndham Championship payouts Young will take home the top prize, but here are the tournament's payouts for 2025, detailing what each participant was awarded. Wyndham Championship 2025 prize money, payouts Position, golfer, final score, winnings
Yahoo
an hour ago
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Ace a trump card for Aussie as Young bags first PGA win
Australian rookie Karl Vilips has scored his first hole-in-one on the US PGA Tour to cap off a consistent tournament as American Cameron Young broke through for his first title at the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina. Vilips scored his ace with a 179-yard shot on the third hole using an eight iron. His final-day 67 followed earlier rounds of 67, 67 and 69 for a four-round total of 270, 10 under for the tournament, leaving him in a tie for 19th place. 🚨 First career ACE! 🚨Rookie Karl Vilips drops it in from 179 yards @WyndhamChamp! — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 3, 2025 Vilips was the leading Australian at Greensboro, but finished a distant 12 shots behind first-time PGA winner Young. The American shot a two-under-par 68 in the final round and wasn't challenged on his way to his first PGA Tour victory on Sunday (local time). "It's the end of my fourth season and I've had my chances -never quite like this," Young said. "I wasn't going to let it get away from me." Young strung together five consecutive early birdies and cruised to a six-stroke triumph at 22-under 258 at Sedgefield Country Club, where he matched the tournament scoring record. The American, who began the day with a five-stroke advantage, became the 1000th different winner in the history of the PGA Tour. He had previously been a seven-time runner-up. After tapping in the final putt, Young hugged his caddie and began to walk off the green. "Where do I go?" he said. "I've never done this before." Mac Meissner posted 66 to finish runner-up at 16 under. Mark Hubbard (63) and Sweden's Alex Noren (64) tied for third place at 15 under. Amateur Jackson Koivun (67), a junior golfer at Auburn University, Chris Kirk (68) and defending champion Aaron Rai (68) of England shared fifth place at 14 under. Playing not far from the Wake Forest campus where he went to college, Young was in control for most of the tournament. After a bogey on the first hole on Sunday, Young put together his string of birdies for what became a nine-stroke advantage. He then had pars on nine consecutive holes before bogeys on the par-3 16th and par-4 17th. He barely missed a birdie attempt on the last hole. The final margin marked the third-largest winning spread on the tour this year. He became the tour's 12th first-time winner of the season. "I've been waiting for this for a while," he said. Denny McCarthy matched Hubbard's 63 for the best score on Sunday and ended up at 12 under, tied for 11th place. Of the other Australians in the field, Cam Davis finished in a tie for 44th place at four under, a shot ahead of Adam Scott (tied for 55th), with Aaron Baddeley tied for 72nd spot at two over. The tournament marks the final regular-season event on the tour, with golfers needing to finish in the top 70 of the season standings to advance to the FedEx Cup playoffs beginning on Thursday.
USA Today
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Last five in, first five out: A deep dive into the FedEx Cup Playoffs bubble for top 70
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Survivor, Wyndham Championship edition lived up to its billing. There were birdie bombs and three putts, clutch shots and three-jack bogeys at 18 and lots of refreshing the FedEx Cup standings to see who would be moving on to Memphis and the FedEx St. Jude Championship. In the end, only one player moved in (Chris Kirk thanks to a T-5 jumped from No. 73 to No. 61) and one out (Ben An, who missed the cut and tumbled from No. 69 to 74) from the top 70 but the drama was real. Here's a closer look at the bubble. Last five into 2025 FedEx Cup Playoffs Yu started the week at No. 63. He missed the 36-hole cut but didn't really have to sweat it out at all. He'll have work to do next week if he wants to move on to the BMW Championship, the second leg of the playoffs. Grillo started the week at No. 66 and by virtue of making the cut, he turned out to be safe, dropping just one spot for shooting 4-under 276 and finishing T-44. The South African started the week at No. 64 but he withdrew citing a back injury on Friday afternoon after playing 14 holes. He was 4 over and well outside the cut line. Entering Sunday's final round, he stood on the wrong side of the bubble at No. 71 but by the slimmest of margins and it turned out things went his way for him to hang on to a spot. Davis started the week at No. 67 but going into the final round was projected to be bumped to No. 72. The Aussie endured a wide-range of emotions on Sunday. He made a triple bogey at No. 11 to drop to 4 over for the day and dig himself a big hole. But he battled back with three birdies on his final seven holes and canned an 8-foot par putt at 18 to shoot 1-over 71 and finish T-44. "I just freed up and just started playing golf because I kind of thought that my chances of getting through to next week were kind of out of my hands at that point," he said. It proved to be enough to squeak his way into the playoffs even if Davis decided not to stress it. "I'm not going to ride that emotional rollercoaster. I've been on the cutline every year I feel like since I've been on Tour, whether it's for the 50 or for this. No, it's too stressful to keep your eyes on it or try to follow too closely what's going on," he said after his round. The German started the week as the "Bubble Boy" and finished there as well but not without a wild ride of emotions. He started the day projected at No. 65 but played the first 11 holes in 5-over par. "I just didn't have it," he said. "Put myself in bad spots, missed some key fairways I would say and struggled out of the rough here." But he refused to throw in the towel. He made a birdie at 13 to right the ship. As he played the 15th hole, he noticed that he stood in 72nd place and still had a chance. "Then I made three birdies so probably I should look at it more often," he said with a smile. That included a clutch 25-foot birdie putt at 18 to shoot 1-over 71 and finish T-31. First five out of 2025 FedEx Cup Playoffs The former Georgia Bulldog, who started the week at No. 78, was in and then he was out. He jumped from No. 71 to No. 67 when he rolled in a 48-foot birdie putt at 15 and showed some rare emotion with a multiple fist pumps. But at 18, he slammed a 46-foot birdie putt past the hole and missed the 6-foot comebacker. The bogey dropped him to 12-under 268 and T-12 and his bubble popped. Thompson said he probably won't touch a club for the next few weeks. "Putted terrible today. Made that long putt on 15, that's about it," he said. "It's really disappointing. Sucks ending regular season this way. Yeah, that's pretty much it." Entering the week at No. 75, Woodland, who had surgery to remove a brain lesion in late 2023, was the sentimental favorite. He stood T-9 going into the final round and was the "Bubble Boy," projected at No. 70, heading into the final round. It wasn't to be as he shot even and finished T-23. The Dane started the week at No. 71 but never got untracked. He survived the cut on the number at 3 under and shot even for the weekend to finish T-35 and drop to No. 73. It also wasn't a week that helped his European Ryder Cup hopes. The South Korean entered the week at No. 69 but missed the cut this week and his chances of sneaking into the top 70 were slim to none. He fell to No. 74. The former Georgia Bulldog began the week at No. 72 and needed to make the cut to have a chance. But in his second round, he four-putted from 49 feet and made double bogey at 15 and failed to convert a 6-foot par putt at 18 to miss the cut by one. "Gave it my all this year, probably too much, loads of pressure on myself to make the playoffs and top 50. Physically my game has shown signs but just haven't shown up in the moment when it counts the most. We fight and fight and grind to give it our all and to finish like that is really just heartbreaking," he wrote in a text to PGA
