2025 Wyndham Championship leaderboard, grades: Cameron Young dominates to finally notch first career win

Young is the 1,000th different winner on the PGA Tour and did so in emphatic fashion

Cameron Young is finally a PGA Tour winner. The former Rookie of the Year dominated the field all week at Sedgefield Country Club to runaway with a six-shot victory at the 2025 Wyndham Championship. 

With the win, Young becomes the 1,000th different winner in PGA Tour history and fulfills the promise he showed early in his career. Young entered this week as a seven-time runner-up on the PGA Tour, but had never been able to get that breakthrough victory. Young looked further away from that first win than ever to start the 2025 season, but he has steadily played his way into form and looked to be a threat again in the second half of the year. 

Now he can officially call himself a PGA Tour winner thanks to a spectacular week driving and putting in Greensboro. Young combined his length off the tee with accuracy to finish second in strokes gained off the tee, and fell in love with the fast greens at Sedgefield to lead the field in strokes gained putting. 

His final round started with a hiccup, as he made a mess of the first hole with a bogey, trimming his advantage to four shots and creating a brief bit of hope for the field that he might be feeling the nerves and come back to them. He erased those hopes swiftly by making five consecutive birdies to extend his lead to nine and put both hands firmly on his first title. That heater was more than enough for Young as he cruised around the back nine at Sedgefield, happy to plot his way around with pars and bogeys to ensure he didn't create any disasters, shooting a final round 68 to finish at 22 under, six ahead of Mac Meissner in second. 

Young did the heavy lifting early in the week, going 62-63-65 in the first three rounds to open a five-shot advantage coming into Sunday, and with the rest of the field stressing over FedEx Cup points and trying to earn their way into next week's St. Jude Championship in Memphis, no one ever threatened to make a real run at him in the final round. 

With the win, he vaults up from 40th to 16th in the FedEx Cup standings himself, effectively securing a spot in the Tour Championship in three weeks. He also adds his name to the list of Ryder Cup hopefuls, as he would love to represent the United States in his home state of New York. Vice captain Webb Simpson admitted after his final round on Sunday that Young has created another conundrum for Keegan Bradley when it comes to captain's picks. 

"Man, I mean, Cam's a New Yorker, I know he loves that golf course," Simpson said. "Anytime you're about to win by 10, you've got to talk about him. And he certainly has the right game for that golf course. He's just adding his name to the list of many guys that are hard for us to say no to." 

That decision will have to wait for two more weeks, but for now, Young can finally shed the label of being one of the best players yet to win on the PGA Tour and head into golf's postseason in great form and with a ton of confidence. Grade: A+

Here are the rest of the notables on the leaderboard at the 2025 Wyndham Championship.

2. Mac Meissner (-16): Meissner began the week 152nd in the FedEx Cup points and will finish 86th. While that's not enough to get into the playoffs, he's now given himself a great chance going into the fall events to lock up a top 100 spot and the full-time status that comes with it. That's a huge deal for a guy who was well outside that range coming into the week, and while it wasn't a win, this could be a life-changing kind of performance for Meissner. Grade: A-

T3. Mark Hubbard (-15): Hubbard came one shot away from making the playoffs, as he couldn't roll in a birdie on the last that would've gotten him inside the top 70. He needed to finish in a two-way tie for second or better this week to make the top 70. However, he still moves from on the bubble for that top 100 after starting the week 98th all the way up to 77th, and will have far less stress on his plate going into the fall season. Grade: A-

T5. Jackson Koivun (-14): The amateur star out of Auburn has now finished inside the top 11 in his last three starts on the PGA Tour, and looks like a serious threat for when he turns pro next year. PGA Tour stars have one more year to get ready for Koivun as he returns to Auburn in the fall. Grade: A-

T5. Chris Kirk (-14): The veteran entered the week in 73rd and needed a strong showing to play his way into the playoffs and did just that. He'll go to Memphis in 61st, which has a real shot at cracking the top 50 to reach the BMW Championship and, most importantly, gets players into all eight signature events next season. Grade: B+

T11. Davis Thompson (-12): We've talked a lot about the guys that were able to grind their way into the playoffs, but Thompson represents the flip side of that coin. He poured in a 47-footer on the 15th to get himself inside the top 70 and just needed to close his round out with three pars, but a bogey on the 18th dropped him back to 71st to make him the odd man out of the playoffs. Grade: C+

T23. Gary Woodland (-9): Like Thompson, Woodland began his day just inside that top 70 but shot an even par 70 on Sunday to fall back 14 spots on the leaderboard and end up in 72nd. He was a fan favorite this week as his comeback from brain surgery has been an unbelievable story, but he will fall just short of the playoff spot he wanted so badly. Grade: C

T31. Matti Schmid (-7): Schmid started the week 70th and finishes the week 70th, making the playoff cut on the number. He had a disastrous first 11 holes on Sunday and was +5 for his day and back to 73rd in the points after a double on No. 11, but he closed with kick to make three straight birdies to end his round. That ended up being just enough when Thompson's par putt missed on the 18th to get into the playoffs, and he'll be headed to Memphis. Grade C+ 

[Aug 3, 2025 at 5:28 pm ET · Robby Kalland]

A bogey on No. 18 drops Thompson out of the top 70 and puts him 71st, agonizingly close to the playoffs. Improbably, Matti Schmid returns to 70th where he started the week as he closed out his final round with three straight birdies to salvage his Sunday and appears headed to Memphis next week for the first playoff event of the season. 

[Aug 3, 2025 at 4:54 pm ET · Robby Kalland]

We don't have any drama about who wins this week, but the battle for the top 70 in the playoff standings is pretty wild. Davis Thompson, Matti Schmid and Gary Woodland have all been lurking just outside the top 70 during their back nines, but Thompson has now moved himself inside that number with a long birdie putt on the 15th to get to T6 at 13 under and 67th in the points. 

Mark Hubbard, in the clubhouse at 15 under, is still in at 68th but needs to avoid late birdies from Alex Noren, Mac Meissner and Chris Kirk, as he has to get a two-way tie for second or better to make the playoffs. Woodland just dropped a shot and he and Schmid seem almost assured to be on the outside looking in, while Cam Davis is the player that got bumped from 70th to 71st with Thompson's birdie -- with Erik Van Rooyen now on the bubble in 70th after a WD in the second round. 

[Aug 3, 2025 at 4:28 pm ET · Robby Kalland]

Mark Hubbard began the week 98th in the FedEx Cup standings and as of this moment has played his way into the playoffs next week as he's tied with Mac Meissner for second at 15 under, nine shots behind Cameron Young. However, the next two hours will feature plenty of stress for Hubbard, as he would drop out of the top 70 with anything worse than a two-way tie for second. Chris Kirk is just one back in fourth at 14 under as the biggest threat to ruin Hubbard's playoff hopes. 

[Aug 3, 2025 at 3:28 pm ET · Robby Kalland]

With Cameron Young extending his lead to 9, we can shift more attention to the chase for the FedEx Cup Playoffs. A number of players came into the day flirting with the bubble and we've seen some guys drop out of and others move into the top 70 in the final round in Greensboro. 

Mark Hubbard's move into T2 at 15 under has him projected 72nd, as he would need a solo second to have a chance at cracking that top 70. Chris Kirk is solidly in if he can hold onto a top 10 position after starting the week 73rd -- he's projected 61st right now as he sits in 5th alone. 

Davis Thompson is right on that bubble number in 70th as he makes the turn in T10 position on the leaderboard, and will want to add some birdies on the back nine to lock himself in to next week's field. Gary Woodland is the odd man out at the moment as he's 71st as he sits in T19 and will need to make a back nine move to get a spot in Memphis. Matti Schmid came into the week on the bubble in 70th and began the final round in a playoff position, but he's +5 thru 12 in his final round and has slipped to a projected 72nd right now. 

Among those finished with their rounds are Cam Davis, who made a terrific up-and-down on the 18th to save par and get into the clubhouse at 4 under (T43), which has him projected 69th and into the playoffs. He'll be sweating out Thompson, Hubbard and Woodland, and hoping they don't make charges up the leaderboard that could drop him out. Nicolai Højgaard began the week 71st and drops to 73rd after finishing at 3 under and in T54, as the Dane will miss out on the postseason after a final round 71. 

[Aug 3, 2025 at 3:06 pm ET · Robby Kalland]

Any early drama after Young's opening bogey has dissipated as he is now seven shots clear of Nico Echavarria after four consecutive birdies to bounce back from that dropped shot on the first. Young looks dialed in with the putter once again, rolling in some beauties to push his lead to 23 under. Echavarria, meanwhile, is off to a scratchy but solid start, as he's needed to hole some lengthy par putts just to stay in second alone. 

At this point, the drama at the Wyndham is less about who will win and more about who will make it to the St. Jude next week for the first playoff event, as there is still plenty to decide on the top 70 bubble. 

[Aug 3, 2025 at 2:23 pm ET · Robby Kalland]

Young settled the nerves and did what he needed on the second, bouncing back from the opening bogey with a birdie to return to 20 under. A solid tee shot with a hybrid allowed him to take aim at the flag from the fairway, and he threw a dart below the hole and poured in a 9-footer to get the shot he dropped at the first back and re-establish a five-shot advantage over Nico Echavarria, who is off to a par-par start and hasn't applied any real pressure to Young in the final pairing. 

[Aug 3, 2025 at 2:10 pm ET · Robby Kalland]

The exact thing Cameron Young wanted to avoid as he began his final round came to fruition on the first hole, as he made a mess of the opener to make a bogey that adds some stress to his Sunday. Young came up short of the green with his second shot and then stubbed his chip and left a 21-footer for par. He ran that three feet past the hole, but was able to clean that up on the comeback effort to avoid a real disaster. The bogey dropped him to 19 under, now just four ahead of Nico Echavarria and six ahead of Mac Missner, Ben Griffin and Chris Kirk in T3 at 13 under. 

The second hole will be the real tell of Young's nerves, as that's been one of the easiest holes all day as seemingly everyone has been able to leave a makable birdie putt to the front left hole location that has banks on both sides funneling the ball towards the cup. If Young can't bounceback with a birdie there, he might be in for a long, stressful round of golf. 

[Aug 3, 2025 at 1:59 pm ET · Robby Kalland]

Young's pursuit of his first career win -- and becoming the PGA Tour's Mr. 1000 -- is underway as he hit an iron off the first tee and found the step cut on the left side. At 20 under, he's five clear of playing partner Nico Echavarria and eight ahead of the big group tied for third at 12 under. It'll take something unbelievable from anyone from that group to catch him, but the real battle will be early between Young and himself. If Echavarria can make some birdies early and apply a bit of pressure, we'll see how Young handles the nerves if he can't put birdies on the card in the first few holes. On the other hand, a hot start could effectively slam the door and alleviate a lot of the potential pressure he'd feel on the back side. 

[Aug 3, 2025 at 1:07 pm ET · Robby Kalland]

The two low rounds of the day belong to Hossler and McCarthy at 5 under so far, as both have made moves into the top 10. Hossler came into this week 96th in the FedEx Cup standings and will need to stay hot and find a way into second if he's going to sneak into the playoffs, but a top 10 would give him a nice cushion going into the fall season to stay in the top 100 and maintain full-time status. McCarthy, meanwhile, came into the week 39th and would remain there with a top 10 finish, giving him a chance to play his way into the Tour Championship during the first two playoff events. 

[Aug 3, 2025 at 11:44 am ET · Robby Kalland]

Players with the biggest FedEx Cup points sweats today

There are a number of players flirting with the top 70 that will be sweating it out today in Greensboro trying to punch their ticket to the St. Jude Championship next week in Memphis. Here's where those who made the cut and are closest to that 70 line stand currently:

T7. Davis Thompson (-10): Projected 69th
T9. Gary Woodland (-9): Projected 70th
T13. Matti Schmid (-8): Projected 65th
T22. Patrick Rodgers (-7): Projected 66th
T37. Emiliano Grillo (-6): Projected 68th
T49. Cam Davis (-4): Projected 72nd
T57. Nicolai Højgaard (-3): Projected 73rd

Those projections will shift and change all day -- while I typed this out Rodgers made a birdie and moved from 71st to 66th, showing the volatility of these standings all day. Erik Van Rooyen withdrew on Friday and Byeong Hun An missed the cut and both of them are projected to slide just outside the top 70 after starting the week inside the playoff field.