RYDER CUP ’25: For Cameron Young, A New York Homecoming In The Works For 12 Years

NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Bethpage Black is a big ballpark on Long Island that made the boy feel even smaller. He was holding his father’s hand on Father’s Day in 2002 as they watched the U.S. Open won by Tiger Woods. It was Cameron Young’s first glimpse of golf at the highest level. He was 5, already hitting a pyramid stack of range balls until his tiny hands were sore, able to hit a wedge into a 55-gallon drum from 30 yards away. Young has a much clearer memory of the day in 2013 when the PGA of America announced golf’s rowdiest event, the Ryder Cup, would be played in 2025 at Bethpage Black with its notoriously loud New York fans who felt ownership of the state-owned course. By then he was a junior in high school, good enough and old enough to dream, even if it felt so far away. “That golf course is where our state Open was every year. That was the big tournament for me at that point,” Young said, who in 2017 became the first amateur to win the New York State Open with a course-record 64 at the Black. “I knew that golf course
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