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Cam Young rallies to win The Players Championship and our reaction to PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp's 6-theme plan

Subpar

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Golf, Sports

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode GOLF's Subpar, Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz recap Cam Young's comeback victory at The Players Championship, Brian Rolapp's 6-theme plan for the PGA Tour and Colt's annual match with Mike Commodore at Shadow Creek.

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0:00.0

All right, here we go.

0:10.9

Welcome back to another episode of Subpar, very special episode coming to you this week.

0:16.3

We're going to break down the players championship, which is, some say, the fifth major.

0:20.7

And also some big

0:21.6

news that came out since our last show, CEO of the PGA tour, Brian Rollout, laying out

0:26.4

what possibly the future of the PGA tour looks like. We're going to get into all that. But

0:30.8

Slees, let's start with the players, because once again, TPC Sawgrass delivered, and it was

0:35.1

an exciting tournament where it ended up being an incredible duel between Cam Young and Matt Fitzpatrick. Cam Young getting him by one shot with a par on the 72nd hole. How about the stones this kid's developed in the last whatever months it was since the, you know, the narrative was he's close, he can't win. What do you have like, he's like seven runner-ups or something before he just blist everyone at the wind him. Then he goes to rider cup, goes three and one in his hometown, basically, makes, I would argue the putt that's the most pressure you could have in golf. The putt, not to win the rider cup, but if you miss it, we got zero percent chance and we actually, he gave us life after that makes that and then do what he did

1:11.2

down the stretch at the players i mean we can go back to a bunch of shots but the ones to get all

1:15.6

the attention 17 the shot he took that pin on which very few people were doing downwind and then

1:20.1

not just take it on but then make that putt drips it in the center and then 18 when like group

1:26.1

before two groups four zanders hitting four iron

1:28.4

off the teague's downwind on 18 he pulls out driver yeah just rocket three set hit it 98 yards

1:34.9

to a back pin i didn't even know you could have inside 100 yards on 18 yeah exactly i mean just

1:39.4

he's i don't want to say he's comfortable because i don't think anyone's comfortable and we'll get

1:43.7

into that like ludwig and what happened to but like he's found a way to manage it. And it's almost like the bigger the moment, the better he becomes with the putter especially, but just hits some unreal shots. I mean, he's a monster right now. Yeah, the putter the last nine months has just totally changed for him. I don't know what he's done technically or if it was just a putter change, but I remember going back to the memorial last year and falling him around on me. He couldn't put it in the ocean. He couldn't hit the hole from three feet. He was so lost. And then something clicked. And it started at the Wyndham Championship, obviously the Ryder Cup. He seems to be a factor every week. He teased it up now. I think you look back at his last 12 events and like other than three events, the worst finish is tied for 11th. Yeah, nine of the 12. Yeah, he's won two of his last 12. Obviously, a lot of people comparing him to David Duvall. You know, he's very stoic out there. It took David Duvall, 92 events to get his first win. Same for Cam Young. And then he went on this absolute heater.

2:37.1

And Ken... know he's very stoic out there it took david deval 92 events to get his first win same for cam young

2:35.1

and then he went on this absolute heater and cam young obviously has the talent to do that he's been a

2:41.2

factor in major championships he's got six top tens in major championships in a young career but going back

2:46.0

to another shot that i don't think just got near enough love the plug bunker shot on 16 was absurd i mean a horrible break to hit the tree it wasn't a good shot it was a bad shot that I don't think just got near enough love. The plug bunker shot on 16 was absurd.

2:52.1

I mean, a horrible break to hit the tree. It wasn't a good shot. It was a bad shot. It was a few bad shots. But to have a plug sucked. And you have this 30-yard bunker shot out of a Friday glide. We've seen guys chip it in from easier, chip it in the water from easier spots. They're doing it all over. Yeah. And for him to, I know it went to 30 feet,

3:07.9

but I think just under the circumstances,

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