2026 Players Championship results: Cameron Young comes from behind to win at TPC Sawgrass

Cameron Young shoots a 4-under 68 to come from behind to win the 2026 Players Championship!

This is Young’s second win on the PGA Tour after his first title last year at the Wyndham Championship.

Cameron Young has a 15 foot birdie putt to win the Players title.

Matt Fitzpatrick is trying to save par and get himself into a playoff if Young misses.

It seems like the Players title will come down to Cameron Young and Matt Fitzpatrick – who will emerge victorious on the 18th?

Or will we go to a playoff?

With both at 13 under – two clear of clubhouse leader Xander Schauffele – it’s hard to imagine one not hoisting the golden trophy when this is all said and done.

Ludvig Åberg has dropped to nine under.

Currently projected to finish T-5, Sudarshan Yellamaraju is expected to earn nearly $1,000,000. That will more than double his all-time career earnings from the Tour, Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour Canada.

Xander Schauffele is in the clubhouse at 11 under after a 3-under 69. That’s the score the beat coming home.

Matt Fitzpatrick is back at 13 under. Him and Young are at the 16th. They should get some birdie looks in these final few holes, but the 18th is showing its teeth today.

10 under feels like it won’t be good enough. 11, 12, 13 under – those are the ones that seem to still have a shot.

A bird tried to save Sepp Straka’s shot from going in the water at the 18th, but he didn’t have enough flap.

This is what Sundays are made for. Final round of The Players, and, realistically, eight guys are in contention. It could go a million different ways. How fill the final few holes play out? Will we have an outright winner or go to a playoff?

Thankfully, the weather seems to be holding on.

Matt Fitzpatrick dropped a shot at the par-4 14th. The pairing of Fitzpatrick and Young are now tied at the top with matching 12 under for now.

Åberg’s par putt went way past the hole. His bogey putt came up 8 inches short. So it’s a double for the leader coming into Sunday, and he is now 10 under and three shots back from Matt Fitzpatrick.

Between them are Robert MacIntyre at 11 under and Cameron Young at 12 under.

Sepp Straka is tied with Åberg at 10 under.

The typically unflappable Åberg is falling apart before our eyes. He hooked his drive at the par-4 12th and is once again in the water.

Meanwhile, Fitzpatrick takes the solo lead at the par-3 13th. He is now 13 under.

Young, who is paired with Fitzpatrick, had a similar birdie look and it’s an easy 2 to move to 12 under. Young and Åberg are now tied.

Åberg was having a neutral round until his second shot at the par-5 11th. From the fairway, he had to carry the water that sat in front of and to the right of the pin at the edge of the green.

Åberg pulled the shot, tricky wind likely playing a factor, and it splashed down right in the middle of the pond.

After the drop, Åberg hit it to within 16 feet. His par putt missed just left of the hole. That’s a bogey and a dropped shot. He is now tied with Fitzpatrick at 12 under.

Through 16 holes, Sudarshan Yellamaraju is tied for the round of the day at five under. The Canadian is the most mysterious of those occupying the top of the leaderboard. He’s surrounded by names like Åberg, Fitzpatrick, Schauffele, Thomas, Fleetwood, Koepka.

So who is Sudarshan Yellamaraju?

Born in Visakhapatnam, India and playing from Mississauga, Canada, Yellamaraju has not had the typical path to the Tour.

He is primarily a self-taught player who learned by watching YouTube videos of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.

While in India as a young child, Yellamaraju’s dad, Suresh, worked in a high-rise office overlooking a golf course, but it wasn’t until the family moved to Canada when Yellamaraju was 4 that he started playing.

He started with a plastic set of clubs and balls and would hit range balls with a set of rental clubs at a local golf dome.

Yellamaraju’s family moved to Mississauga when he was 11. He was homeschooled and took a gap year before turning professional at 19, opting not to play college golf.

In October 2025, the 24-year-old earned his Tour card for the 2026 season when he finished 19th in the Korn Ferry Tour season standings.

Five months later, he’s in contention at The Players.

After a birdie from Cameron Young on the par-4 10th, there are now three players at 11 under: Young, Fitzpatrick, MacIntyre.

Åberg still has a two-shot lead, but he hasn’t been able to do much today. Even round so far after a birdie and bogey on the front nine.

Sepp Straka is sitting at 10 under with six holes to go. He’s made three birdies in the past four holes.

Robert MacIntyre, meanwhile, is now tied with Matt Fitzpatrick at 11 under after a birdie on the 11th.

Both are putting pressure on Åberg but running out of daylight and have to close the gap. He’s holding steady with a two-shot lead thru 9.

A quad bogey has already derailed one of the leader’s round. Michael Thorbjornsen carded an 8 at the par-4 fourth after hitting his ball into the water on the approach shot. He now sits at 7 under and T-11.

Åberg dropped a shot there as well but still has a two-shot lead over Matt Fitzpatrick, 13 under to 11 under.

Åberg and Thorbjornsen both pick up birdies on the par-5 second. Åberg is now at 14 under, still leads by three.

Watch Åberg’s tap-in:
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Åberg and Thorbjornsen are even thru 1. Meanwhile, a couple holes ahead, Hovland, Young and Fitzpatrick have picked up shots and are now all 10 under with Thor.

Åberg still leads by three, but it’s still early – plenty of time for someone in the final few pairings to make a move.

Hideki Matsuyama carded a 5-under 67 for the best round of the morning wave – six birdies to one bogey. He finished 3 under overall, currently good for T-30.

Matsuyama has had a good start to the season; he hasn’t missed a cut, with his best finish being second after a playoff with Chris Gotterup at the WM Phoenix Open. His worst finish came last weekend at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, where he was T-41.

Chad Ramey aces the 13th for his first hole-in-one on Tour!

How many balls go swimming at the island green today?

14.5 footer for birdie.

Leaders tee off at 1:40. Scattered thunderstorms start rolling in around 4. Sunset is at 7:33.

Last year’s Players had a Monday finish, but the Monday forecast is much worse than Sunday. Let’s see how the day goes.

1. Ludvig Åberg -13
2. Michael Thorbjornsen -10
3. Cameron Young -9
T-4.Matt Fitzpatrick -8
T-4. Brian Harman -8
T-4. Viktor Hovland -8
T-4. Justin Thomas -8
T-4. Corey Conners -8
T-4. Xander Schauffele -8
T-10. Robert MacIntyre -7
T-10. Sahith Theegala -7
T-10. Austin Smotherman -7
T-10. Jacob Bridgeman -7
T-10. Sepp Straka -7

Much ado has been made about Scottie Scheffler’s game as of late, and it might be nothing.

Scheffler carded a bogey-free 5-under 67 in Round 3 of The Players on Saturday after narrowly making the cut a day prior. With that 67, early rounds of 72 and 73 are all but forgotten as Scheffler, at least for now, seems to have emerged from a brief, but frustrating rut.

“I was a little sharper today than I was the first two days,” Scheffler said. “I felt like I was swinging it better each day of the tournament. Today hit a few more fairways and was able to give myself a few more looks for birdie.”

The question everyone has been asking is, ‘What’s wrong with Scottie’s form?’ But is there really anything wrong when you’re ranked No. 1 in the world – by a large margin – and haven’t finished lower than T-25 since August 2024?

Read the full story here.

Ludvig Åberg thinks about winning a lot.

On Sunday, the two-time PGA Tour winner and Ryder Cupper has the chance to win the biggest title of his career to date at the 2026 Players Championship, where he has a three-shot lead.

It’s the largest 54-hole lead at The Players since 2018, when Webb Simpson was seven shots ahead and held on to win by four.

The 26-year-old Swede doesn’t shy away from the what ifs – he embraces them. While some might avoid thinking about the next round or what a win like The Players would do for one’s career, he thinks about what it would look like, what it would feel like. He’s done that since his college days at Texas Tech.

“I think I’m trying to embrace it,” Åberg said Saturday in his post-round press conference. “I’m trying to be okay with all those things that come with it, which is why we play golf.

“We spend so much time practicing, playing, training, preparing, so why wouldn’t we think of what it would actually mean to win. So, naturally, that’s what I’m going to do tonight. But does it change anything for me tomorrow? I don’t think so.”

Read the full story here.

Defending Players champion Rory McIlroy is already on the course. As is Jordan Spieth, Patrick Cantlay and Wyndham Clark.

Here are notable tee times/pairings coming up (all times EDT):

• 10:40 a.m. - Sam Burns, Max Homa
• 11:25 a.m. - Chris Gotterup, Akshay Bhatia
• 11:35 a.m. - Maverick McNealy, Scottie Scheffler
• 11:55 a.m. - Keegan Bradley, Brooks Koepka
• 12:50 p.m. - Sahith Theegala, Austin Smotherman
• 1:00 p.m. - Xander Schauffele, Robert MacIntyre
• 1:10 p.m. - Justin Thomas, Corey Conners
• 1:20 p.m. - Brian Harman, Viktor Hovland
• 1:30 p.m. - Cameron Young, Matt Fitzpatrick
• 1:40 p.m. - Ludvig Åberg, Michael Thorbjornsen

For full tee times and pairings, click here.