Cameron Young keeps lead at PGA Tour's Wyndham Championship - ESPN

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Cameron Young ran off four straight birdies on the front nine and stretched his lead to eight shots Saturday before he settled into a series of pars for a 5-under 65, giving him a five-shot lead in the Wyndham Championship as he goes for his first PGA Tour victory.

Young capped a bogey-free 65 in the storm-delayed second round in the morning. Then he stretched his lead with his four straight birdies, including a 30-footer on No. 4 and a two-putt birdie from 20 feet on the par-5 fifth.

«Just played some really nice golf there for about an hour,» Young said. «Had some opportunities on the back nine, too, just didn't make as many putts. But kind of cruised along with hitting some average shots through the middle of the round, and nice to finish up the way I did.»

Nico Echavarria of Colombia cut the margin to four shots with three birdies in a four-hole stretch on the back nine. A final birdie gave him a 64.

Young, who had gone 39 straight holes without a bogey at Sedgefield Country Club until missing a 6-foot sliding par putt on the 14th hole, responded with a beautiful lag for a two-putt birdie on the par-5 15th, and a 10-foot birdie on the 17th to put the lead at five.

«I'm just going to worry about what I'm doing. As I said, try to hit the best shots I can and try to hole the putts and we'll add it up after 18,» Echavarria said.

Young is widely considered the best player to never have won on a main tour, a runner-up seven times since his rookie season in 2021. That includes a World Golf Championship and more notably the 2022 Open Championship at St. Andrews.

«I finished second a bunch. I've gotten beat a lot. I've played some good golf on Sunday in really all those cases,» Young said. «So that's all