Cameron Young fired an eagle at the par-5 15th as well as seven birdies and a bogey to close with an 8-under 64 and move into a share of the lead at 10-under at the Hero World Challenge.

Young led the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (5.254) and Strokes Gained: Around the Green (2.026) in round two.

His 64 included a back-nine 30, tying the low back-nine score at Albany. Young also had the only birdie on the par-4 16th hole in round two.

“I made a couple putts late but it is just one of those courses where, I actually said it to Kyle yesterday, I felt like we played pretty well and, you know, comfortably could have shot 4, 5, 6 under, and the scoring made 2 feel kind of bad yesterday. But the reality is day to day out here you just can have runs of holes where it starts to feel easy and it’s not that different to yesterday. I feel like I played pretty similarly and just made a couple putts down the stretch,” said the American.

“I’m kind of not using the week as practice, but I’m using the week to try to build on some things that we’ve been doing and less so looking at the results just because I haven’t played any competition in the last couple months. So it’s more just an opportunity to keep building on what we were doing mentally. I don’t think the result is necessarily going to dictate the outcome, I think it’s going to be more kind of how we go through our process and how we attack the golf course.”

Young posted eight top-10s in 25 starts during the 2025 season, including hisn first career PGA Tour title at the Wyndham Championship.

Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama carded a bogey-free 66 for his share of the lead. The 2016 Hero World Challenge champion finished 29th in the FedExCup with one win (The Sentry) and two other top-15 finishes in 23 starts (T13/The Genesis Invitational, T13/Rocket Classic).

Wyndham Clark eagled the par-5 6th and made four birdies and two bogeys for a 68 and his share of the lead. The American finished No. 65 in the 2025 FedExCup Fall standings after posting two top-five finishes in 24 starts (T4/The Open Championship, T5/Texas Children’s Houston Open).

American J.J. Spaun fired eagles at the par-5 6th and par-4 14th, three birdies and three bogeys for his own 66 and share of the top spot. He leads the field in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (3.018) and Approach the Green (3.704) through two rounds.

Spaun had seven top-10 finishes in 25 starts in 2025, including his second career PGA Tour title at the US Open and three runner-up results (Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches, The Players Championship, FedEx St. Jude Championship).

Finally American Akshay Bhatia made three bogeys and recorded a 68 to rounds out the tie at the top. He had four top-10s in 26 starts during the 2025 season (best: T3/The Players Championship) and finished T13 in the FedExCup.

Two-time defending champion Scottie Scheffler of the USA made an eagle at the par-5 15th and a double bogey at the par-4 16th, as well as four birdies and a bogey and posted a 68 for his 18th consecutive round of par or better at Albany. He currently lies in T6 at 9-under.

The Hero World Challenge, an unofficial PGA Tour event played annually following the FedExCup Fall, is being played in the Bahamas for the 10th consecutive time, and 26th edition overall.

Eligible players for the Hero World Challenge are as follows:

• Defending champion of the Hero World Challenge
• Current year winners of The Players Championship, Masters Tournament, PGA Championship, US Open and The Open Championship
• Three sponsor exemptions restricted to players ranked among the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking as of Monday, Aug. 25
• To complete the field of 20 players, the top available players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of Monday Aug. 25

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