Cameron Young's Mental Game: Key to His Golf Success

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00:00I was cheering for Cameron Young harder than I've ever cheered for him in my life.

00:08And once you have a rooting interest from somebody, you really start to pay attention

00:13to every single thing that they do.

00:16And I felt like I was a friend watching from afar, and I just felt like I needed to just

00:25go up to him and be like, dude, snap out of it, right?

00:29Because when you watch Cam Young, I'm telling you like two or three times a day, I'm just

00:35doing some work here on the computer, and I have the golf on, and I hear this sound

00:43coming off of a face.

00:46And I was like, whoa, who is that?

00:49Every single time it was Cam Young.

00:51And I thought that said everything you needed to know about Cameron Young, which is undeniable

00:59power and just raw talent and skills.

01:04But one of the biggest ingredients that he is missing that I felt like Trevor nailed

01:10right at the end, because Colt said, what's the takeaway this week?

01:13And Trevor said, you know what, he's got to start working on his mental game.

01:17And that is exactly what I've been noticing.

01:21And what Trevor was able to take away from the back nine on a Sunday, is that he's too

01:26hard on himself.

01:27He is way too hard on himself.

01:30And I wonder if he's just a little bit too proud to work on his mental game.

01:35Because what I see is somebody that is really high expectations for themselves, and wants

01:42perfection and demands it out of himself, out of his team.

01:48And doesn't it feel like a player like him, the longer this goes along, where he doesn't

01:55get that win, and doesn't look himself in the mirror.

02:00Maybe this is the week in which he says, you know what, I need to be kinder to myself,

02:05like Trevor said, after he's putting out on Sunday, I need to find a way to be kinder

02:12to myself when the moments are the biggest, and find a way for a little smile to come

02:17out.

02:18Let me see some Cam Young pearly whites on a Sunday.

02:22Let me see just that beard glisten a little bit more, because for somebody that was his

02:29biggest fan this week, nobody was cheering for him harder.

02:33He was hard to root for, because of the way he was just kind of belittling himself.

02:38Who knows what he was saying under his breath.

02:41I was that way.

02:42I understand what he's going through.

02:44That is exactly how I was wired.

02:46I don't want that drive to go away, but use it in a way in which it'll fuel you to winning

02:52golf tournaments.

02:53Like a way that kind of like John Rom does.

02:55Yes.

02:56Does he cost a lot?

02:58Absolutely.

02:59Is he the model citizen on a golf course?

03:01Absolutely not.

03:02But what is he able to do?

03:04He's able to turn the page from one shot to an X on a Sunday on a back nine and realize,

03:10Hey, this isn't a time to sulk.

03:12This isn't a time to look at shots that I didn't pull off.

03:17We've got to find a way to get the ball in the hole and understand what it takes to win

03:21a golf tournament.

03:22What that number is going to be.

03:24Hopefully Cam Yong and his team are able to go do that because he definitely needs to

03:27go and look in the mirror and be like, I should have won that golf tournament that this was

03:32my tournament to win.

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