
The PGA Tour’s flagship event offered a cash prize worthy of its status: a $25 million purse, with $4.5 million to the winner.
The back nine at the Players Championship rarely disappoints, and it minted a new champion Sunday as Cameron Young shot 33 to close out a 68 and win his biggest PGA Tour title. Young birdied the famous 17th hole and piped a drive 375 yards on the 18th (the longest in the 23-year ShotLink era) to set up a winning par. Matt Fitzpatrick missed an 8-foot par putt that would have forced a playoff.