Cameron Young, who has seven second-place finishes but no victories in his short PGA Tour career, is in position to become the 1,000th individual to win a PGA Tour event.

The 28-year-old former Wake Forest standout will take a five-shot lead over Nico Echavarria into Sunday’s final round of the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club. Defending champion Aaron Rai, Chris Kirk and Mac Meissner are tied for third, eight shots from the lead.

Though he’s the player with the most runner-up finishes without a victory, Young said the pressure for a first victory hasn’t been uncomfortable.

“Not really. If you had asked me two years ago I’d probably say yes,” Young told reporters. “But if you go back through, I finished second a bunch, I’ve gotten beat a lot. I haven’t — I’ve played some good golf on Sunday in really all those cases.

“So that’s all I’m trying to do tomorrow. I’m starting in a nice spot, so I’m just looking to try to beat second place by as many as I can. That’s been my mindset from the first tee on Thursday and that’s what I’m going to try to do tomorrow.”

Young, 20-under-par 190 for the tournament, shot 5-under 65 Saturday afternoon in the third round after making two birdies on four holes while finishing his second-round 62 in the morning. The tournament record is 22-under.

In three days, CBS television may have been the only thing capable of slowing down Young, who shot 31 on the front nine before CBS assumed third-round coverage from Golf Channel.

Though Young taken control, amateur Jackson Koivun, a rising senior at Auburn, has also grabbed attention, moving into sixth place at 11-under after shooting 65 Saturday.

Following Friday afternoon showers, which included a half-inch of rain and suspended play, greens were more receptive to approaches. Sami Valimaki and Matti Schmid holed second shots for eagle on the 402-yard 17th hole.

Young couldn’t have a much better opportunity to break through with a victory in his 94th PGA Tour start. This year, no third-round PGA Tour leader has lost a lead of more than three strokes.

Despite the big lead, Young said he plans to stay aggressive and keep making birdies.

“Frankly, I’m probably not going to pay much attention to my position,” he said. “I know that there is an 8-, a 9-, a 10-under out there and I’d like to be the one to shoot it as opposed to someone in second or third place.”

With four straight birdies, beginning at No. 3 in the third round, Young took a commanding lead that stretched to as much as nine strokes at one point in the front nine. He then made seven straight pars before making his only bogey at 14.

Echaverria has two PGA Tour, though neither came on U.S. soil. The Colombian shot 31 on the back nine for 64, capped by a 6-foot birdie putt at 18.

“I’ve just been calm,” Echavarria said. “I haven’t let anything rattle me.”

Rasmus Højgaard made Saturday’s best comeback, shooting 29 on the front nine (he started on No. 10) after carding 41 on the back side. The Dane made triple-bogey on 11. He eagled No. 5, sandwiched between birdies at 3,4 and 6.

Young and Echavarria will tee off at 1:55 p.m. in Sunday’s final twosome.

Cameron Young will take the Wyndham Championship lead into the weekend.

The Wake Forest graduate was at 14-under-par through 15 holes Friday afternoon at Sedgefield Country Club when play was suspended for the day.

Young was one stroke ahead of defending Wyndham champion Aaron Rai, who still had five holes to play in the second round, and Mac Meissner, who completed his round at 13-under 127.

Young and Rai will have to finish their rounds Saturday morning before playing their third round in the afternoon.

The cut is projected at 3-under 137. Many of the best-known players, including Webb Simpson, Lucas Glover, Zach Johnson, Andrew Novak, Keegan Bradley and Sedgefield member Alex Smalley will miss the cut. Akshay Bhatia was 3-over with four holes to play and withdrew.

Ben Griffin, the highest ranked player in the FedEx Cup standings, appears set to stick around for the weekend at Sedgefield Country Club. But U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley and Andrew Novak won’t be playing.

No. 7 Griffin shot his second straight 67 Friday for 134, to stay safely inside the Wyndham Championship’s projected cut line, floating at 3-under-par 137 in the early afternoon with about half the field still on the course.

Novak and Bradley shot identical scores of 68 Thursday and 72 Friday for 140. Other notable players on the wrong side of the cut line are Lucas Glover and Zach Johnson at 139.

Wake Forest graduate Cameron Young looks like the best candidate for a winner with local connectins. Young, who birdied three of his first four holes on Friday and was 10-under with 13 holes to play, is the leader of players still on the course and only two strokes behind leader Mac Meissner, who played early in the morning.

Joel Dahmen shot 61 at Sedgefield Country Club, including 29 on the front nine — his final nine Thursday — to take the first-round lead at the Wyndham Championship..

The 37-year-old Dahmen, who joined the PGA Tour in 2017, has a one-stroke lead over Alex Noren and a two-stroke lead over Cameron Young, Nico Echaverria, Mark Hubbard and defending champion Aaron Rai. Jordan Spieth and Adam Scott were in a group of 11 finishers at 65.

Webb Simpson shot 67, recent Wake grad Scotty Kennon shot 68 and recent UNC grad David May shot 67.

Jordan Spieth had a typical members’ start on his first three holes at Sedgefield Country Club during Thursday’s opening round of the Wyndham Championship. And the slick, undulating Donald Ross greens gave and taketh away during a 5-under-par 65 that left him among the early leaders.

Teeing off before 8 o’clock, Spieth hit his opening drive on No. 10 into the left rough, but made par. At 11, he left his short-iron approach almost 50 feet from the hole, resulting in another shaky par.

The round got shakier at 12, the 212-yard par-3 with a false front on the green that slides back down a steep hill. Spieth’s shot hit well onto the green, but slipped down the slope, eventually stopping 37 yards from the hole.

“It was once about 37 feet from the cup, then it was 37 yards,” said Spieth, who eventually missed a 5-footer for par. “So if I hit it worse or better, it would have been on the green and OK, but that’s how that hole is.”

“I was kind of just a little bit off to start. I didn’t have a great warmup this morning and it kind of translated, but it was nice to hang in there, get some breaks on the greens and be a couple under while I wasn’t really, really feeling very good about my game.”

Spieth quickly hit his form, thwarting Sedgefield’s greens in the process. He birdied 13. Then, putting downhill from 46 feet, Spieth hit his birdie putt on a perfect line, though perhaps much too hard. Lucky for him, it hit square in the middle of the cup and dropped.

“My one on 14 I think would have gone off the green if it didn’t go in and that would have been in a tough spot to even go up and down so call that a two and a half shot break just on a putt,” said Spieth. “So my speed control was pretty average, but when I got uphill putts I knocked ’em in.”

Instead, Spieth followed up with another birdie at 16 and ran off a string of seven pars that included a 15-foot save at 18.

On a back (Sedgefield’s front) nine ravaged by several morning starters, Spieth sandwiched birdies at 5, 6, 8 and 9 around a bogey at 7. He made putts of 13 and 15 feet, respectively on the last two holes.

Entering the tournament 50th in FedEx Cup points, Spieth needs to stay in the top 50 after two following playoff stages to gain automatic berths in next year’s “signature events,” which offer $20-million purses.