Cameron Young confirms the enormous change he made with his driver the week before the Wyndham Championship

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Cameron Young is in a really strong position to win his first ever PGA Tour event after his third round 65 at the Wyndham Championship.

Young holds a five-stroke lead over second-placed Nico Echavarria at the Wyndham Championship.

It’s quite remarkable that the 28-year-old from Scarborough, New York, is still yet to win a PGA Tour event, but his time will come, most likely on Sunday.

Young insisted that he still has hopes of qualifying for the Ryder Cup team, after his second round on Friday.

That will be entirely dependent on whether or not he wins the Wyndham Championship on Sunday.

He will most likely need another win in the play-offs as well, if he is to even get close to making the Ryder Cup team.

The New Yorker has been in sensational form this week. Young’s 125 total for the first two rounds at the Wyndham Championship was the second lowest 36-hole score of the season, behind Scottie Scheffler’s 124 at the CJ Cup Bryson Nelson.

Now Young just has to finish the job off.

Cameron Young on why he changed one shot before the Wyndham Championship

Young’s 65 on Saturday was superbly put together.

He made six birdies and just one bogey during his third round, and now he is in a really commanding position heading into Sunday.

Young spoke to reporters after his third round at Sedgefield Country Club and opened up on how a complete change of shot shape has helped him shoot the scores he has shot this week.

He said: “I might have heeled a driver that has gone left to right, but I think every other shot has been right to left, some more than others, but yeah, I stuck to it. I haven’t hit anything left to right on the range. I had the inclination to try to like see what it felt like to hit something straighter today and just didn’t.

“Yeah, safe to say I’ll probably be doing that tomorrow, see what it gets me.“

Young was then asked when he decided to commit to hitting the draw rather than a fade.

He responded: “Last week just practicing at home. I’m always looking through old video and stuff, just found that I used to swing it just a little bit more biased towards a draw. I don’t know, just my iron play this year hasn’t been great doing it the other way and I’ve noticed I kind of haven’t gotten on any substantial run anywhere, and I felt like committing to just one shot might allow me to kind of build some feel and that seems to have worked pretty well.“

Before last week, Young exclusively hit a power-fade off the tee, and used the same shot-shape when hitting his irons.

So to move to the draw was a big and somewhat risky change from Young, but one that appears to have paid off.

More ground help is definitely the biggest bonus of hitting a draw off the tee, but it’s not like Young required extra yardage!

At the very highest level of golf, changing shot shapes can end up being detrimental to players’ careers. Just ask Martin Kaymer and Collin Morikawa!

Young will be desperate to get his maiden win on the PGA Tour on Sunday, and his game is exactly where it needs to be with just one more round remaining at the Wyndham Championship.

Cameron Young could become the PGA Tour’s 1,000th unique winner

If Young is victorious at the Wyndham Championship this week, he will become the 1,000th different player to have won on the PGA Tour.

This event at Sedgefield Country Club is the 94th of Young’s PGA Tour career.

He’s surely due a win!

Young just needs to carry on doing what he has done for the first three rounds at the Wyndham Championship.

If he manages to do that, he will win the tournament at a canter.