Cameron Young takes his first lead on Tour with 64

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The Editorial Team|July 8, 2023

Cameron Young holds closed with a 64 on Friday to take a two-shot lead in the John Deere Classic.

The American hit 15 of 18 greens in regulation for the second consecutive day en route to 65-64—129, one stroke shy of his best opening 36-hole total on Tour (66-62—128 at the 2022 Genesis Invitational/T2).

“I definitely drove it better yesterday. I don’t know what the stats are, but yesterday I think I only really — I might have missed three fairways, but two of them were first cuts, and they were both really good shots right down the middle of 9 and right down the middle of 4.

“So I think I definitely drove it better yesterday. I think I hit a few really good iron shots today, which probably helped the stats quite a bit.

“Then obviously I putted really nicely, especially early today. They felt similar. I felt like I was a little bit more in control of the driver yesterday.

“But all in all, very similar. I was pretty comfortable each day.”

Young holds the 36-hole lead/co-lead for the first time on Tour. He was the 2022 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year and has recorded six runner-up results, including one this season at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play when he lost the final to Sam Burns. At No. 19 in the Official World Golf Ranking, he is the highest-ranked player in the field.

Adam Schenk carded a bogey-free 66 for a share of second place at 11-under alongside fellow American Brendon Todd (65) and South Africa’s Garrick Higgo (66).

Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg closed with a 64 for a share of fifth place at 10-under alongside Americans William Mouw (66), Denny McCarthy (64) and Kevin Roy (bogey-free 63).

Mouw, playing on a sponsor exemption, and Schenk are the only two players bogey-free through 36-holes.

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Starting on the back nine, overnight leader Jonas Blixt posted nine straight pars on the same nine holes he carded the first sub-30 nine-hole score of his PGA Tourcareer on Thursday (29).

Of the players who made the cut, Blixt was the only player to shoot an over-par score in the second round and is currently tied in 18th place at 7-under.

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	Total
1	Cameron Young	-13	65	64	129
T2	Adam Schenk	-11	65	66	131
T2	Garrick Higgo	-11	65	66	131
T2	Brendon Todd	-11	66	65	131
T5	Ludvig Aberg	-10	68	64	132
T5	William Mouw	-10	66	66	132
T5	Denny McCarthy	-10	68	64	132
T5	Kevin Roy	-10	69	63	132
9	Mark Hubbard	-9	67	66	133
T10	Grayson Murray	-8	64	70	134
T10	Lucas Glover	-8	69	65	134
T10	Kevin Streelman	-8	71	63	134
T10	Peter Kuest	-8	67	67	134
T10	Cody Gribble	-8	68	66	134
T10	Jim Herman	-8	71	63	134
T10	Chris Kirk	-8	68	66	134
T10	Nate Lashley	-8	65	69	134
T18	J.T. Poston	-7	68	67	135
T18	Akshay Bhatia	-7	66	69	135
T18	Yuto Katsuragawa	-7	72	63	135
T18	Greyson Sigg	-7	65	70	135
T18	Jonas Blixt	-7	62	73	135
T18	Seamus Power	-7	66	69	135
T18	Adam Svensson	-7	69	66	135
T18	Keith Mitchell	-7	68	67	135
T18	Jimmy Walker	-7	67	68	135
T18	Doug Ghim	-7	70	65	135
T18	Tano Goya	-7	67	68	135
T29	Alex Smalley	-6	66	70	136
T29	Richy Werenski	-6	65	71	136
T29	Tyler Duncan	-6	70	66	136
T29	Sepp Straka	-6	73	63	136
T29	Nick Hardy	-6	67	69	136
T29	Satoshi Kodaira	-6	67	69	136
T29	Eric Cole	-6	69	67	136
T29	Chris Stroud	-6	67	69	136
T29	MJ Daffue	-6	68	68	136
T29	Ryan Gerard	-6	71	65	136
T29	Michael Thorbjornsen(a)	-6	73	63	136
T29	Beau Hossler	-6	69	67	136
T29	Troy Merritt	-6	69	67	136
T29	Matt NeSmith	-6	68	68	136
T29	Brian Stuard	-6	68	68	136
T29	Jason Dufner	-6	70	66	136
T45	Byeong Hun An	-5	67	70	137
T45	Davis Thompson	-5	68	69	137
T45	Chad Ramey	-5	70	67	137
T45	Cameron Champ	-5	68	69	137
T45	Robert Streb	-5	71	66	137
T45	S.Y. Noh	-5	71	66	137
T45	Aaron Baddeley	-5	70	67	137
T45	Austin Smotherman	-5	71	66	137
T45	Kevin Yu	-5	70	67	137
T45	Stephan Jaeger	-5	68	69	137
T45	Harrison Endycott	-5	68	69	137
T45	Russell Henley	-5	69	68	137
T45	Russell Knox	-5	70	67	137
T45	Chez Reavie	-5	69	68	137
T45	Lanto Griffin	-5	71	66	137
T45	Andrew Novak	-5	69	68	137
T45	Gordon Sargent(a)	-5	70	67	137
T62	Harry Higgs	-4	69	69	138
T62	Geoff Ogilvy	-4	70	68	138
T62	Brandon Matthews	-4	68	70	138
T62	Kramer Hickok	-4	67	71	138
T62	Matt Kuchar	-4	69	69	138
T62	Zach Johnson	-4	72	66	138
T62	Andrew Landry	-4	69	69	138
T62	James Hahn	-4	70	68	138
CUT	William McGirt	-3	69	70	139
CUT	Dylan Wu	-3	70	69	139
CUT	Adam Long	-3	71	68	139
CUT	Tyson Alexander	-3	69	70	139
CUT	Nico Echavarria	-3	68	71	139
CUT	Martin Laird	-3	70	69	139
CUT	Joel Dahmen	-3	68	71	139
CUT	Ben Martin	-3	69	70	139
CUT	Robby Shelton	-3	70	69	139
CUT	Trevor Cone	-3	72	67	139
CUT	Trevor Werbylo	-3	73	66	139
CUT	Patrick Rodgers	-3	70	69	139
CUT	Trey Mullinax	-3	70	69	139
CUT	Zac Blair	-3	68	71	139
CUT	Nick Watney	-3	72	67	139
CUT	Ryan Moore	-3	69	70	139
CUT	Wesley Bryan	-3	69	70	139
CUT	D.A. Points	-2	70	70	140
CUT	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-2	71	69	140
CUT	S.H. Kim	-2	72	68	140
CUT	Michael Kim	-2	71	69	140
CUT	Emiliano Grillo	-2	69	71	140
CUT	Sam Ryder	-2	71	69	140
CUT	David Lipsky	-2	71	69	140
CUT	Sam Stevens	-2	73	67	140
CUT	Carl Yuan	-2	71	69	140
CUT	Taylor Moore	-2	70	70	140
CUT	Derek Ernst	-2	70	70	140
CUT	Kelly Kraft	-1	70	71	141
CUT	Sung Kang	-1	69	72	141
CUT	K.H. Lee	-1	71	70	141
CUT	Vince Whaley	-1	72	69	141
CUT	Tommy Kuhl	-1	70	71	141
CUT	Henrik Norlander	-1	72	69	141
CUT	Ryan Palmer	-1	69	72	141
CUT	Callum Tarren	-1	72	69	141
CUT	Brandt Snedeker	-1	71	70	141
CUT	Hank Lebioda	-1	72	69	141
CUT	Max McGreevy	-1	71	70	141
CUT	Scott Harrington	-1	71	70	141
CUT	Scott Brown	Par	71	71	142
CUT	Derek Lamely	Par	70	72	142
CUT	Paul Haley II	Par	72	70	142
CUT	Dylan Frittelli	Par	71	71	142
CUT	Joseph Bramlett	Par	74	68	142
CUT	Patton Kizzire	Par	71	71	142
CUT	Erik van Rooyen	Par	70	72	142
CUT	Ryan Brehm	Par	71	71	142
CUT	Kevin Chappell	Par	71	71	142
CUT	Austin Cook	Par	69	73	142
CUT	Augusto Núñez	Par	73	69	142
CUT	Ross Steelman	Par	69	73	142
CUT	Reid Martin	Par	72	70	142
CUT	Adam Hadwin	+1	70	73	143
CUT	Cameron Percy	+1	74	69	143
CUT	Peter Malnati	+1	71	72	143
CUT	Martin Trainer	+2	72	72	144
CUT	Jonathan Byrd	+2	69	75	144
CUT	Brice Garnett	+2	68	76	144
CUT	Kevin Tway	+2	72	72	144
CUT	Ryan Armour	+2	76	68	144
CUT	Brent Grant	+2	75	69	144
CUT	Chad Collins	+2	71	73	144
CUT	Doc Redman	+2	74	70	144
CUT	Zecheng Dou	+2	71	73	144
CUT	Kaito Onishi	+2	72	72	144
CUT	Greg Chalmers	+3	72	73	145
CUT	David Lingmerth	+3	74	71	145
CUT	Kyle Westmoreland	+3	72	73	145
CUT	Kyle Stanley	+3	70	75	145
CUT	Nick Taylor	+4	72	74	146
CUT	Carson Young	+4	75	71	146
CUT	Chesson Hadley	+4	70	76	146
CUT	Taylor Montgomery	+5	75	72	147
CUT	Matthias Schwab	+5	75	72	147
CUT	Will Gordon	+6	77	71	148
CUT	Arjun Atwal	+6	71	77	148
CUT	Tommy Gainey	+6	74	74	148
CUT	Marcus Byrd	+6	76	72	148
CUT	Sean O'Hair	+7	74	75	149
CUT	Matti Schmid	+7	77	72	149
CUT	Ricky Barnes	+8	76	74	150
CUT	Jay Giannetto	+8	77	73	150
CUT	Michael Gligic	+9	77	74	151
CUT	Ben Taylor	+11	75	78	153
CUT	Anders Larson(a)	+12	72	82	154
W/D	Scott Piercy	-	76	-	76

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Updated: July 13, 2023

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