The swing of Cameron Young (-13) is absolutely recognisable, with that pause at the top, so many times the prelude to fabulous shots. “Yes, the pause, it’s been there most of the time, although sometimes I tried to make it disappear. But when it’s not there, my game doesn’t work, so for now it’s going to stay,” said the player from Sacarborough, New York, right after signing a 64 on the second day of the Dubai Desert Classic, a score that has taken him straight to a powerful and solitary leadership, waiting for what will still happen in the afternoon round of play.
Of course not, Cameron. Why eliminate a technical pause with which you have signed four top tens in majors in the last two years and with which you also propelled yourself to a whole Number 13 in the world (today he is the 25th)? Don’t even think about it again…
Never better said: without hurry (this circumspect 26-year-old never seems rushed), but with pause, his pause, the fact is that he has taken everything ahead today. His accumulated -13 in 36 holes, in fact, can be misleading, since the Majlis course of the Emirates Golf course, is not being manipulated just like that. The proof is that the players at -6 will probably end the day within the top ten, and they are guys who are already seven strokes behind the American. Young’s combination has been lethal: he has plugged a lot and from all distances, but he has also played from tee to green like a real killer in several phases of the round. In the end, on hole 9, he gave the rest a break by sending his ball into the water and signing the only bogey of his round.
Well, this one was already seen coming in recent seasons, we are not discovering him in the emirate, but the factory of the stars and stripes does not rest, it continues to produce extraordinary golfers. Young has not yet debuted in a Ryder, for example, but he will, oh yes he will. LIV would always lack space (money, unfortunately, no) to take them all.
Two strokes behind for now is an outstanding Andy Sullivan, who has insisted on contradicting us all, with a partial in two days of eight less for the first nine holes of the course and only two less for the seconds, where historically better results have always been achieved. Sullivan’s things, an absolutely unpredictable player. It’s too early to establish a unique and direct pulse between Young and Sullivan, because it also gives the impression that the firmness of the greens will increase over the weekend and the movements on the board can be epic, but the others will do well not to lose sight of them.
