ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Cameron Young, the 26-year-old Westchester native who played his youth golf at Sleepy Hollow Country Club, missed the cut on Friday at the PGA Championship, in part after being hit with a two-shot penalty during the second round.
The PGA of America announced that on Young’s seventh hole of the day (No, 16), Young putted close to the hole and marked his ball.
With his marker in the line of play of both Tommy Fleetwood and Hideki Matsuyama, Young moved his marker one clubhead length to the side.
After Fleetwood and Matsuyama finished out their holes, Young followed suit, making a par.
But Young forgot to return his marker back to the original position. As a result, when he replaced the ball and holed out, he’d played from a wrong place and incurred the General Penalty (two strokes) for breaching Rule 15.3.
“As a result, when he replaced the ball and holed out, Young had played from a wrong place and incurred the General Penalty (two strokes) for breaching Rule 15.3,” the PGA Championship rules committee said in a statement.
Following a rough 4-over 74 in his opening round, Young, who finished third at last year’s PGA and runner up at the British Open, had been trying to rally, having made three birdies in his first six holes.
The double bogey derailed the round and Young, ranked No. 15 in the world, finished with a 5-over 75 on Friday that left him at 9-over for the tournament, four shots off the cutline.
He declined to comment after the round.
Young finished tied for seventh at the Masters in April with a 6-under, which was a big improvement from his first Masters in 2022, when he missed the cut after shooting a pair of 77s.