ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – Cameron Younger, the 25-year-old PGA Tour rookie from Westchester, is main the British Open.
Younger shot a blemish-free 8-under-par 64 in Thursday’s opening spherical on the Previous Course at St. Andrews in his first profession British Open. When he walked off the course, Younger had a three-shot lead over Australian Cameron Smith, who shot a 5-under-par 67.
“I’m pleased I shot 64, I’m pleased that, so far as I do know, I’m nonetheless main The Open Championship, nevertheless it’s not going to vary how I really feel an hour from now,” Younger stated. “I imply, it'd change how I really feel on the primary tee a little bit bit (Friday), however I’ll overlook about it in a short time.”
Younger has had some sort of yr, posting three runner-up finishes and two third-place outcomes, considered one of which was on the PGA Championship at Southern Hills, the place he had a chunk of the lead on the fifteenth tee within the closing spherical.
That have was immeasurable for Younger.
“I feel any time you’re across the lead in a significant championship or any PGA Tour occasion, frankly, you get an increasing number of comfy each time,” Younger stated. “Whether or not I’m main by three or one or 4 again after right now, I’ll sleep simply tremendous. I really feel like I’ve been round, despite the fact that it’s solely been many of the yr, I’ve been across the lead a great bit, and I feel we’ll simply take (Friday) because it comes. That’s actually all I can management.”
That is Younger’s second journey to St. Andrews. He got here as a 13-year-old together with his mother and father, David and Barbara, on a household golf journey.
“I feel we performed eight or 9 golf programs in six days – right here on the New (Course), the Previous (course), we performed Kingsbarns, Carnoustie, Gullane,” he stated. “On that journey, the primary time I obtained to be out right here, my dad, I feel, requested for permission to play from the again tees. I feel that’s one thing you must do, if I bear in mind accurately.
“So, once we got here out to hit our first tee photographs with the R&A constructing proper there, there have been a bunch of R&A members presumably watching. And I’m glad I didn’t know; I’m certain I'd have been nervous out of my thoughts. However I feel there’s an image of me hitting there with a bunch of these guys watching. That’s actually my first reminiscence of right here.
“I’ve at all times liked golf over right here,” Younger went on. “I feel it’s a really distinctive expertise in comparison with what we’re used to within the States. Yeah, I've a number of good recollections from that journey from enjoying within the rain and the wind and the chilly. The primary expertise over right here for me is one I’ll bear in mind rather a lot. I feel simply the distinctive sort of golf that you simply play over right here may be very particular.”
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