“How can this get any worse?” is what must have been going through Cameron Young’s mind as he was putting at the par 3 in the 2025 Masters Tournament. Playing for par, he missed a sitter that rolled right past the cup. That’s alright cause it’s a simple bogey tap-in.

No! That, too, rimmed past the hole and deviated towards another angle. Still very close to the hole, and Young might be wondering when this nightmare will be over. Another tap-in, and it rolled past the cup again, this time much further away from the spot. Finally, Young put his marker down to take some time to compose himself.

In the end, Cameron Young recorded a 3-over par on Redbud to record one of the most comical horror shows. Tour Golf shared the entire episode on their X, showcasing the PGA Tour pro’s series of mistakes. The caption read “Cam Young…just taaapppp it in man,” with a video attached that showed all the tap-ins and the eventual marker placement. The sad show also ensures that Young misses his cut in the 2025 Masters Tournament.

Just two years back, Young was projected as one of the emerging stars of the sport. In 2022, he was announced as the Rookie of the Year with 94% votes from the members. “It’s very special,” Young had said. “I know the namesake, Arnold Palmer, obviously was a giant in the game of golf, and we have him to thank for a lot of what we do today, what the PGA Tour is. Just to be related to that in some small way is very cool.”

Young had finished second at the Sanderson Farms Championship, The Genesis Invitational, Wells Fargo Championship, The Open Championship, and Rocket Mortgage Classic back then. These five finishes tied the most by any player in a single season in the last 40 years, with Vijay Singh being the last to do it in 2003. Even PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan had heaped praise on him.

“Cameron’s career has seen a remarkable rise over the last several years, and he quickly became a favorite among fans last season with the style in which he attacks the golf course,” Monahan had said. “And of course, given Cameron’s Wake Forest ties, receiving the Arnold Palmer Award as PGA Tour Rookie of the Year will certainly hold a special significance for him.” But last year has not been up to the mark for the Wake Forest alum.

After grabbing the runner-up spot at last year’s Valspar Championship, Young rose to No. 13 in the Official World Golf Ranking. But since then, he slipped 46 places to enter the Masters as World No. 59. He has until now missed 5 of his 10 cuts in 2025. And Augusta presented nothing different. That received a lot of response from the community on X. The comments were mostly divided between laughs and sympathy as everyone caught on to the events of Augusta National quickly.

Sympathy to mockery: fans divided over Cameron Young’s misses

The second round of the 2025 Masters Tournament was quite eventful, as the likes of Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau rose up in the rankings. But the highlight would definitely be Cameron Young after his abysmal episode at the 16th hole. However, some believe that this is a norm for the PGA Tour players. They commented, “If you asked which of the 95 players in the field did this, I think everyone’s first guess would have been Cam Young.”

They are suggesting that without any visual evidence and only the description of the entire scenario, it wouldn’t have been hard to guess that it was Cameron Young who pulled this off. Interestingly, he did have another iconic meltdown back in 2024 when he broke his driver out of frustration in the final round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

Another was a lot more critical of Young while also throwing some insults his way. They tweeted, “Ahahaha, brilliant, couldn’t have happened to a more miserable ba**ard.” This is not the first time the 27-year-old has had such a miserable series of mishaps. Back in the 2021-22 season, his frustration was split across 5 tournaments as he was a runner-up in all of them without winning a single title all year long.

One of the fans was also a bit cringed by what Cameron Young just produced at Augusta National. They said, “Yikes that made my toes curl 😬,” suggesting that the pro-golfer’s misses made them squirm. As hilarious as it may be, no one wants to see a PGA Tour pro put up such an abysmal show. That was reflected in another tweet that simply read “Painful!.” Fans also seem to understand how scarring such an incident can be. Hopefully, Young will be able to find his way back from this in the near future.

Funnily, one of the followers also pointed out that Young “Should’ve used AimPoint” to hit from the near distance. They also attached a picture of Min Woo Lee using the controversial green reading method when he was 2 feet away from the 18th hole in his 2025 Texas Children’s Houston Open win. What are your thoughts about Young’s abysmal show on Redbud in the 2025 Masters Tournament? Let us know in the comments section.