Signature Scroll: Cameron Young channels Secretariat; Adam Scott races to 100 consecutive major starts

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It’s solely acceptable that, on the identical day because the Kentucky Derby, Cameron Young provided his finest Secretariat impression at Trump National Doral.

“The tournament’s in his hands in his hands right now,” he mentioned Scottie Schefflerwho will play alongside Young within the remaining group Sunday. “I can go out and have a really good round, and if he has another really good round, he’s going to be a tough guy to catch.”

Young has been flat-out dominant all through the bag. A 9-foot par putt on the 18th gap may not make a giant distinction in the long term, but it surely closed out a third-round 70 for Young and emphasised the balanced recreation on show in Miami: fourth in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee, third in SG: Tee-to-Green, second in SG: Putting and main the sector in Scrambling.

Entering the week, typical knowledge steered that Young could be a prime contender at Doral due to his benefit off the tee. His sizeable benefit really could be larger if he had been taking part in higher on the longest holes: Young is simply 1 beneath on the par 5s this week, together with a banana ball off the tee Saturday on the par-5 tenth that obtained a lucky bounce off a palm tree. But he is doing ample harm on the par 4s, taking part in the 10-hole assortment in a robust mixture of 11 birdies and 19 pars.

Young has made simply two bogeys via 54 holes and has appeared like his typical unflappable self all week lengthy. He did not blink whereas taking part in alongside Scheffler within the first two rounds, and whereas there’s now a trio of gamers six pictures adrift in second, together with the world No. 1, it is exhausting to see any identify apart from Young’s happening the trophy Sunday.

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Adam Scott took a giant step Saturday towards reaching the century mark later this summer season.

The Aussie has been a mannequin of consistency for almost a quarter-century. After taking part in The Open in 2001, ending T47 simply days after his twenty first birthday, he has performed in each major single honest. The streak reached 98 on the Masters, and he’ll simply qualify for this month’s PGA Championship through his world rating. But the US Open, which might be 100 in a row, stays a query mark.

Scott was within the remaining group final yr at Oakmont however light down the stretch amid soggy circumstances; While a top-10 end would’ve secured an exemption to Shinnecock Hills, he completed T12. So his spot on this yr’s subject will come down to world rating: With the highest 60 after the PGA Championship exempt for Shinnecock, Scott entered this week at No. 54 and is drifting within the fallacious course.

Things obtained off to a tough begin Thursday, as I tumbled to the underside of the standings thanks partly to taking part in a fallacious ball. He steadied the ship on Friday, then moved into the highest 25 with one of the rounds of the day, a 6-under 66. It took three days, however the Aussie lastly rekindled the shape that helped him raise a trophy at Doral in 2016, the final time the TOUR visited.

“It’s been a decade of like trying to figure out the game all the time,” Scott mentioned. “I’m happy to be out here doing it still.”

Scott is now able to snag just a few well-timed OWGR factors together with his consequence this week, and he’ll play one other no-cut occasion subsequent week on the Truist Championship earlier than heading towards Aronimink. Suddenly, his prospects of staying inside the highest 60 by the May 18 cutoff are fairly rosy.

Back in 2018, Scott famously had to make a visit to sectional qualifying to snag a US Open invite. He made the minimize, and the streak hardened. Now it is wanting increasingly like he’ll have the opportunity to keep away from an analogous detour subsequent month.

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