Young outduels Fitzpatrick to claim Players victory Estelle.Bronkhorst Mon, 03/16/2026 - 09:00 MIAMI - Cameron Young outdueled England's Matt Fitzpatrick down the stretch to fire a four-under-par 68 and claim a one-shot victory at The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass on Sunday. The 28-year-old from New York, who started the day four shots adrift of third-round leader Ludvig Aberg, pocketed the biggest PGA Tour win of his career after rattling in five birdies and a bogey in his final round. An elated Young said the mentally taxing nature of Sawgrass's unforgiving 7,352-yard layout had made Sunday's victory extra special. "It's absolutely exhausting," Young said. "This place has had my number the last few years. I've never really had a good finish here. It is incredibly taxing. "Every shot all day long you can get yourself into trouble. There's no easy ones. There's no givens. And you're going to make mistakes. "It's a great test of will, a test of patience and obviously a test of hitting some good shots. I feel like I did a lot of those things really well this week." Young, who had drifted off the pace after a double-bogey on the 18th in Saturday's third round,
