Brady’s Bunch: The PLAYERS Final Round, Young Takes Title, Notes

PHOTOS BY JIM BRADY/Florida Sports Wire

Final Leaderboard

• Winner: Cameron Young (1^st/-13)
  • 28-year-old earns his second win on TOUR in his 104^th start (2025 Wyndham Championship); second win in his last 11 starts after going winless in his first 93 starts on TOUR, notching seven runner-up finishes during that span
  • Earns his third consecutive top-10 finish of the 2026 season (T7/The Genesis Invitational, T3/Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard), his second streak of three consecutive top-10s on TOUR (T3/2022 RBC Heritage, T2/2022 Truist Championship, T3/2022 PGA Championship)
  • Earns 750 FedExCup points and moves from No. 12 to No. 2 in the FedExCup standings, his highest rank after any week in his TOUR career
  • In four previous appearances at THE PLAYERS Championship, he finished MC (2022), T51 (2023), T54 (2024) and T61 (2025)
  • Four-stroke comeback matches the fifth-largest final-round comeback in PLAYERS Championship history
  • Matches the largest comeback of the 2026 season on TOUR (4/Chris Gotterup/2026 WM Phoenix Open)
  • Becomes the first PLAYERS Champion to birdie No. 17 in each of the final three rounds
  • Led the field in proximity on approach shots (28′ 1″) and scrambling (16 of 21); his 375-yard drive on No. 18 was the longest drive on that hole by any player in the ShotLink era (since 2003)
  • Earns an exemption on the PGA TOUR through 2031 and three-year exemptions into the Masters Tournament, PGA Championship, U.S. Open and Open Championship

  Miscellaneous Notes

  • 2022 U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick finishes runner-up at 12-under; matches the best finish by a player from England at THE PLAYERS (2^nd/Ian Poulter/2009, 2^nd/Lee Westwood/2021, 2^nd/Tyrrell Hatton/2023, T2/Nick Faldo/1992, T2/Luke Donald/2005, T2/Ian Poulter/2017); notches his first top-three finish on TOUR since the 2023 BMW Championship (T2)
  • 36- and 54-hole leader Ludvig Åberg (T5/-9) closes with 4-over 76, including 40 on the back nine; falls to 1-for-3 when leading/co-leading after 54 holes on TOUR; notches his second consecutive top-five finish on TOUR (T3/Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard)
  • Xander Schauffele (3^rd/-11) earns his third top-three finish at THE PLAYERS Championship (T2/2018, T2/2024), matching the most top-three finishes at THE PLAYERS without a win (Jeff Maggert, Bernhard Langer, Tom Watson, Jim Furyk)
  • After opening 72-72 and sitting T42 after 36 holes, Robert MacIntyre (4^th/-10) cards 65-69 on the weekend for his second consecutive top-10 finish at THE PLAYERS (9^th/2025); missed the cut in each of his first two starts (2021, 2024)
  • One of 15 first timers in the field, Sudarshan Yellamaraju (T5/-9) closes 66-68 on the weekend to earn the fourth-best finish by a PGA TOUR rookie at THE PLAYERS (T2/David Lingmerth/2013, T3/Fulton Allem/1988, T3/Camilo Villegas/2006)
  • Making his second start of the 2026 season since returning from back surgery in November, 2021 PLAYERS Champion Justin Thomas (T8/-8) earns his first top-10 finish on TOUR since the 2025 TOUR Championship (T7)
  • Two-time PLAYERS Champion (2023, 2024) and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (T22/-5) records his 27^th consecutive top-25 finish on TOUR, the second-longest streak since 1983 (38/Tiger Woods)
  • Hideki Matsuyama (T27/-3) carded the low final-round of the day (67)
  • Chad Ramey (T27/-3) makes a hole-in-one on the 13^th hole; his first ace on TOUR; the 45^th ace in PLAYERS history (41^st at TPC Sawgrass)

PHOTOS BY JIM BRADY/Florida Sports Wire