Scottie Scheffler Finishes Second Again at Cadillac Championship — Cam Young Scottie Scheffler Doral

Scottie Scheffler finished solo second at the Cadillac Championship, six shots behind Cameron Young, after a final-round 71 left him at 13 under. The result gave him a third consecutive runner-up finish and kept the recent pattern of contention without a closing-round win.

Scheffler At 13 Under

He had a chance to keep the pressure on through Sunday, but the 71 never turned into the low round he needed. Scheffler said, "I felt like I couldn't really get anything going," after the final round, and added, "Just didn't really get enough momentum going."

His own read on the day matched the scorecard. "I was hitting it decent enough. Just putts were going kind of around the hole. Tough to get a lot of momentum. I hit it pretty nice to start, just didn't hole the putts I needed to," he said, then added, "Wasn't hitting it close enough and wasn't holing those 15- to 20-footers when I needed them."

Cameron Young's Weekly Edge

Young made the gap real by the time Scheffler reached the back nine. On Sunday, Scheffler made three straight birdies on Nos. 15-17, but he still finished six shots back after Young controlled the week and made putts from anywhere.

Scheffler played with him three of the four days and came away with the same conclusion. "Cam played fantastic golf all week," he said. "I played with him three out of the four days, and he was hitting a lot of quality shots and making putts from anywhere. He was going to be a tough man to beat this week."

Another Near-Miss Pattern

This was the third straight week Scheffler came up just short after a one-shot loss to Rory McIlroy at the Masters and a playoff loss to Matt Fitzpatrick at RBC Heritage in Hilton Head. Since 2022, he has been inside the top two through 54 holes 24 times and converted 15 of those into victories, a 62.5% rate that leads McIlroy's 60% and Xander Schauffele's 41.67% in the comparison cited with him.

The week started with a 1-under 71 on Thursday, when he opened with three birdies in his first five holes before back-to-back bogeys on Nos. 10 and 11. He followed with a bogey-free 67 on Friday to get seven shots off the lead, then a 3-under 69 on Saturday to move within six shots, but the closing round never produced enough offense to turn that climb into a win. He was outside the top 20 after the opening round for the sixth time in his last eight starts.

For Scheffler, the scoreboard now shows another second-place finish and another week where the chance was real but the final push never arrived. For Young, the margin at 13 under was large enough to leave no closing door open.