Donald Trump was reportedly present at the 2026 Cadillac Championship, where Cameron Young secured the victory. The star golfer has now reflected on what it is like to win with the president watching, calling the experience “very unique.”
Cameron Young reacts to winning in front of Donald Trump
Cameron Young has won the 2026 Cadillac Championship at the Trump National Doral Miami “Blue Monster” course, where Donald Trump was in attendance. The golfer recounted winning with the PGA Tour game in front of the president during a post-tournament press conference.
“Once you get out there … you’re out doing your job, but everything that leads up to that, you know, the place is obviously crawling in Secret Service and security and police, and it has a definitely a different feel,” Young recalled (via Golf Channel).
“I came out to go down to the side door where we’ve been coming in the clubhouse all week and kind of had two guys step together and say, ‘Hey, we’re not letting anybody through this way right now.’ So, I was just walking in toward the locker room toward dining and had to turn around and walked all the way around the clubhouse to get back to that door,” this year’s winner of the Cadillac Championship shared.
He added, “There’s little things like that that’s obviously different with the President here, and it changed the rhythm of the day a little bit to start, but it was already so thrown off by the delays that, you know, it didn’t matter too much.”
Young further recalled meeting Trump following the tournament and thanking him for hosting the championship. “He was just very complimentary, the way that he – you know, I’ve been fortunate to meet him before, and that’s especially with us golfers, it’s something he loves and I think appreciates how good everybody is on the PGA Tour,” the athlete said.
“So really just hugely complementary, and I, of course, thanked him for hosting us, and that was about it,” Young said. “It’s very unique,” he said, stating that it was an “honor to get to play in front of” Trump. He added, “Hugely grateful to him and his family and his organization that has these beautiful properties and allows us to come and play great golf tournaments on them.”
Originally reported by Namrata Ghosh on Mandatory.
