Cameron Young has a case as the hottest golfer on the PGA Tour right now. Young closed out a dominant six-shot win at the Trump National Doral “Blue Monster” course, after tying for third at the Masters and winning THE PLAYERS Championship before that.
Trump was in attendance to watch Young’s second victory of the season, and afterwards, Young was asked about how different the experience was due to the different security protocols and procedures that the President’s attendance warrants.
“Once you get out there … you’re out doing your job, but everything that leads up to that, you know, the place is obviously crawling in Secret Service and security and police, and it has a definitely a different feel,” Young said, per Fox Sports. “I came out to go down to the side door where we’ve been coming in the clubhouse all week and kind of had two guys step together and say, ‘Hey, we’re not letting anybody through this way right now.’
“So, I was just walking in toward the locker room toward dining and had to turn around and walked all the way around the clubhouse to get back to that door. So, there’s little things like that that’s obviously different with the President here, and it changed the rhythm of the day a little bit to start, but it was already so thrown off by the delays that, you know, it didn’t matter too much.”
Young also called it an “honor” to secure a victory with the President watching.
“It’s very unique,” he added. “He’s nothing if not a very, very interesting man. He’s very powerful, and it’s an honor to get to play in front of him. Hugely grateful to him and his family and his organization that has these beautiful properties and allows us to come and play great golf tournaments on them. This is a special place and great championship golf course, I’m thankful to have it back in the schedule.”
Young will be gunning for his first Major victory at the PGA Championship at Aronimink starting May 14.
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