Cameron Young wraps up wire-to-wire victory in AdventHealth Championship at Blue Hills

Dodging raindrops from start to finish the past few days, Cameron Young did something else from start to finish in the Korn Ferry Tour tournament held Thursday-Sunday at Blue Hills Country Club in Kansas City.

He led.

From wire to wire, Young, a 24-year-old who played in college at Wake Forest, could not be caught in the 2021 edition of the AdventHealth Championship, formerly known as the KC Golf Classic.

Young shot 4-under Sunday to finish the 72-hole tournament at 19-under (269). It’s his first win on the Korn Ferry Tour and first as a professional.

“It’s hard kind of to work through them at the moment, to be honest,” Young said of his emotions afterward. “Obviously the last hour or so I probably had a good feeling I was going to win, but it’s hard to get through those last few holes and, you know, hit the shots that I needed to hit. I was a little bit squirrelly down the stretch.”

After two birdies in his first three holes, Young went bogey-birdie-birdie-bogey on Nos. 5-8 and made the turn at 2-under. He held a four-stroke lead early on the back nine before making birdies on Nos. 13 and 17.

Young earned $121,500 and 500 Korn Ferry Tour points for his victory. The event’s total purse was $675,000.

South African Dawie van der Walt was runner-up at 17-under, also carding a 4-under Sunday.

Zach Wright shot an 8-under 64 Sunday, but he had too much ground to make up to catch Young. Wright finished 16-under for the tournament.

This story was originally published May 23, 2021 at 4:00 PM.