Cameron

Tringale

Tringale has named Tom Sargent, his high school and college coach in his formative years, as the biggest influence on his career.

Sargent, who has been head professional at Mesa Verde Country Club since 1995, could see that even at an early age, Tringale was destined to make it as a pro golfer.

In an interview with Golf Digest in 2009, Sargent said: “He’s just a very mature kid. He’s not going to let things sidetrack him. He’s not a wild party dude.”

It also sounded back then that Tringale had a real love for golf as a team game. “It’s going to be sad not being part of a team," he said as a 21-year-old, looking ahead to life on tour as a professional golfer.

It seems fitting then that the determined young high flyer from 2009 is now enjoying being part of a team again with HyFlyers GC.

Tringale first qualified for the U.S. Open as an amateur in 2009 but missed the cut at Bethpage State Park.

His highlight in a major came at the 2022 U.S. Open at The Country Club in Brookline. Tringale had qualified through being one of the leading 60 players on the Official World Golf Ranking.

On the Sunday he recorded a 69 to finish T14, his best result in a major, but it was made all the more special by the fact that his brother Jon Tringale was his bag man.

That was his third time playing at the U.S. Open and in the same year he achieved his best finish from eight appearances at the PGA Championship, with a T41.

He has also qualified for The Open four times, with a best of T26 in 2021 and The Masters once in 2015, where he was tied in 38th place.

In his 13 years on the PGA Tour, Cameron Tringale finished as a runner-up four times and he climbed as high as 44th in the Official World Golf Ranking.

In August 2022 Cameron Tringale announced on Instagram that he was joining LIV Golf.

Tringale joined HyFlyers GC, captained by six-time major champion Phil Mickelson and made his LIV debut in the fourth event of the 2022 Invitational Series in Boston, finishing 23rd out of the 48 players in action.

In 2023, Tringale’s consistency began to shine through as he claimed five top-5 finishes in the 13 events, ending the season 16th in the individual standings.

‘Camo’ – as his HyFlyers teammates like to call him – produced good numbers again in 2024, including a T6 in the UK and also won both his singles matches in the end-of-season team showdown in Dallas.

Cameron Tringale’s swing on the tee is not what you’d expect from somebody who regularly posts good numbers, with his hands and arms having to work hard at the bottom of the swing to keep everything on track.

Tringale stands 6-foot-2, and as he’s winding up the backswing he has already started to squat down in the legs, which you normally wouldn’t expect to see until the downswing.

There’s not a lot of hinge as he pulls the club far back and it tends to come down at a steep angle.

Tringale has to raise himself up and forward towards the target and use a lot of twist from the forearms to rotate the club face as it reaches the bottom of the swing, to make the perfect impact with the ball.

Cameron Tringale’s HyFlyers teammates claimed he would make the best James Bond out of all of them.

“It’s Camo,” they all agreed, “the silent assassin.”

And Tringale gained some admiring comments befitting of a Hollywood star when he debuted a magnificent full-face beard at the 2017 Genesis Open.

One commentator said: “Absolutely ferocious beard game from Cameron Tringale.”

The southern California native was born in Mission Viejo in 1987 to Joe Tringale and Robin Mullin and has remained in Laguna Niguel to this day.

He has a brother – Jon Tringale – and a sister Alissa Mullin, who is a high school chemistry teacher. He married wife Tasha in December 2018 and they have two young daughters.

In 2014, Tringale traveled to El Salvador with Christian charity Compassion International to witness the poverty that is rife in the country and see how it affects the lives of children.

Since that visit, he has helped fund various charity-led projects in the area, including the installation of water filters for families and construction of classrooms at local Compassion centers.

Tringale and wife Tasha have also been sponsoring a young girl from Colombia since she was four years old.

Cameron Tringale has one of those last names that can catch you out if you haven’t heard the player introduce himself before.

To pronounce the Tringale family name correctly you need to extend the sounds of the A and the E to give you ‘Trin-gaah-lay’.