Cameron Young Assessed Two-Shot Penalty at PGA Championship

Last year's PGA Tour rookie of the year was dinged for failing to replace a ball marker he had moved on the green.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Cam Young suffered a two-stroke penalty during the second round of the PGA Championship that severely impacted his chances of making the 36-hole cut.

Young, who was the PGA Tour’s rookie of the year last season, played from the wrong spot on the 16th green, his 7th hole of the day, violating Rule 15.3c which calls for a two-stroke penalty.

His score went from a par 4 to a double-bogey 6 and from 2 over par for the tournament to 4 over par—which was the cut line for most of the day. Young added three more bogeys and a double bogey to shoot 75 and finish at 149, 9 over par.

When Young finished, the projected cut was 4 over par, although expected to go higher. The top 70 players and ties make the 36-hole cut.

According to the PGA Championship rules committee, Young had hit his first putt near the hole at No. 16 and marked his ball. Because his marker was in the line of play of both Tommy Fleetwood and Hideki Matsuyama, Young moved his ball marker one clubhead length to the side.

But after the other players putted out, Young failed to move his marker back to its original position. When he holed out from the wrong spot, he had played from the wrong place and incurred the two-stroke penalty.

Young finished T3 at the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills and was excited for this week, having grown up in Scarborough, N.Y.