Cam Young reacts as Matt Fitzpatrick booed by | Golf News

As spectators jeered Matt Fitzpatrick throughout the ultimate holes, his taking part in accomplice, Cam Young, expressed gratitude for celebrating his victory with household, crediting his Ryder Cup expertise as instrumental to his triumph.

Spectators at The Players Championship confronted harsh criticism, with many calling their conduct “disgusting” after they booed the four-time Ryder Cup star, Fitzpatrick. Following Young’s tournament-winning putt that secured the $4.5 million first-place prize, crowds broke into “USA! USA!” chants, prompting the champion to acknowledge the passionate home assist.

Young carded a final-round 68 to declare the trophy, ending a streak of seven runner-up finishes on the PGA Tour before finally breaking through. Fitzpatrick settled for second place after Young birdied the seventeenth gap, with the victor acknowledging how his Ryder Cup participation proved essential to handling the stress, even as observers observed his understated gesture toward Fitzpatrick before delivering the decisive blow.

“It definitely helps. It just provides you some kind of context for how you can perform and how you can think when you feel that way,” said Young after the win.

“Dealing with nerves is tricky. They make you — your senses are kind of heightened. Typically I hit the ball a little farther, so it makes you capable of more, but if you kind of let them get in the way, obviously it can kind of be disastrous.

“So it’s a balancing act of, like, realizing that they’re there and making an attempt to use them to the best of your capacity. I really feel like I used to be positively form of low-level nervous the entire back 9 and then actually a bit nervous over the putts on 18.

“It’s sketchy back there; it’s kind of on a crown and the greens are fast and there’s a lot of wind blowing. Yeah, the Ryder Cup, looking back, I think is a huge just learning experience on how I personally deal with those nerves and what I can do when I do feel that way.”

Young acquired a heat reception from spectators at the Players Championship.

“Yeah, it’s nice to be welcomed warmly like that,” said Young. “Any amount of support that I get out there I’ll take. That’s positive energy, and it brings nothing but positive thoughts to my mind. So very grateful to have had the support of the fans those last few holes.

“I do not assume it is — it is form of a passive factor, but to remember that you have got so a lot assist out there may be actually cool and, yeah, I imply, any reminder of that Ryder Cup — clearly we did not come out on the precise facet of it as a staff, but I took a lot of positives from it. Anytime I’m reminded of that, it form of takes me back to all the work we did to get there and the success that I really feel like or the progress that I really feel like I made during that match.”

While Young’s moment shone brightly, Fitzpatrick faced jeers on both the tee box and the green where he missed an eight-foot par putt on the 18th hole that could have led to a playoff.

Fitzpatrick shrugged it off, having experienced significant heckling at the Ryder Cup in 2025. “Listen, the gang, that was actually kid’s play in contrast to Bethpage,” said Fitzpatrick after the round.

“If they assume that that was something, then they need to reassess. Get your self up to New York. Listen, that’s how it’s. That’s how it’s. I’d hope it is the precise same if — nicely, it in all probability would not be because we’re a little bit more well mannered in Europe, I’d say, but I’d hope it could be of related depth in Europe. I knew it was coming. I had it with Jordan Spieth in 2023. Yeah, it is humorous to me. I discover it hilarious.”