Cameron Young’s Bay Hill connection at Arnold Palmer Invitational

• Cameron Young grew up close to Bay Hill Club and Lodge, viewing it as a “mystical place.”
• Young shot a 5-under 67 on Saturday, putting him in rivalry for the event title.
• Young performed his faculty golf at Wake Forest, Arnold Palmer’s alma mater.
• Young remembers watching Tiger Woods play at the Arnold Palmer Invitational pro-am as a baby.

ORLANDO, Fla. – To Cameron Young, Bay Hill Club and Lodge was his model of the Emerald City and Arnold Palmer was like assembly the Wizard of Oz. His household lived simply throughout the road from the famed membership, not more than a mile away, across the 150-yard mark on the 15^th gap at Orange Tree Country Club. 

“It’s this kind of mystical place, in a sense,” he stated of Arnie’s Place. “I’ve always loved it and always happy to come here and get to play.”

Young’s play would have impressed the course proprietor, whose fingerprints are throughout its design. Young shot 5-under 67 at Bay Hill on Saturday, together with 4 birdies in a row to begin the again 9 and climbed inside 4 strokes of in a single day chief Daniel Berger, who was on 16 when play was suspended on account of darkness. After equaling his finest rating in 17 rounds at Bay Hill, Young sits T-3 and if there’s a sentimental favourite to root for to make a cost, it may be the Wake Forest product who stated his mother initially purchased a spot at Orange Tree in 1979 and remembers using his bicycle to look at Tiger Woods play within the Arnold Palmer Invitational pro-am when he was 9 or 10 years outdated.