E Every bomber seems to have a signature move. For Rory, it’s fast hips. For DJ, it’s the bowed left wrist. For Rahm, it’s the short backswing. What’s Cam Young’s thing? You might say it's the pause before he starts his downswing. That’s tough to ignore. However, the more you see his swing, the more your attention goes to its explosiveness. Young swings like he’s trying to turn the ball into dust. “He did everything hard growing up – threw hard, hit baseballs hard, and so is his golf swing,” says Cam’s father, David Young, the retired head profes- sional at Sleepy Hollow Country Club in New York state. David is Cam's coach. “It wasn’t something we worked on. He just natu- rally knew how to use his body to crank it.” That raw power has been refined to find more fairways, but Young still cranks it, averaging 316 yards off the tee on the PGA Tour. Here father and son reveal the components that create this power – and what you can take away for your game.
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