World quantity 15 Cameron Young was given a two-stroke penalty in Friday’s second spherical of the PGA Championship after making a tap-in putt from an incorrect spot.

The 26-year-old American, final 12 months’s British Open runner-up, made a ball-marking blunder on the sixteenth inexperienced at Oak Hill enjoying alongside Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama and England’s Tommy Fleetwood.

Young, the 2022 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year, completed second on the WGC Match Play in March, his sixth profession runner-up end in a quest of a primary PGA title.

Young, who started on the again 9, left a birdie putt from simply inside 60 toes two toes shy of the opening and marked his ball.

But as a result of the ball marker was within the line of play of each of his enjoying companions, Young moved the marker one clubhead size to the aspect.

Once Matsuyama and Fleetwood have been finished, Young didn’t transfer the marker again to the unique place.

When Young changed his ball and tapped in, he performed it from an incorrect spot, thus incurring a two-stroke penalty and taking a double bogey six moderately than a par on the opening, the PGA Championship guidelines committee stated in a press release.