Bruce Young has established himself as one of Australia’s leading golf journalists and analysts. Since leaving a marketing role in the golf course design company of highly regarded Australian golfer Graham Marsh in 1999, Bruce has created a portfolio of golf related work in internet, print, radio and television commentary and has recently branched out into hosting lunches and other MC related activities.
Daniel Hillier every reason to smile – image NZ Open On a cold and windy day near Arrowtown, 27-year-old Daniel Hillier became just the fourth New Zealander in the last 26 years to claim their own national open golf championship with a two-shot win over Australian Lucas Herbert at the Millbrook Resort. Beginning the final […]
The Landing – sure to be a popular spot throughout the week Continually pursuing a point of difference for its highly popular PGA Tour of Australasia event, the New Zealand Open has further enhanced its innovative approach by improving, even further, spectator viewing at the Millbrook Resort near Arrowtown. Introduced for this year’s event, The […]
Austen Truslow (right) and Cooper Moore (runner-up and leading amateur) image PGA of Australia Today’s win at the Quinovic New Zealand PGA Championship by the 30-year-old American Austen Truslow highlights an often-held misconception about the success or otherwise of Americans on links layouts and in windy conditions. Not sure how many times I have heard […]
Even a disappointing bogey at his final hole could not take away from Adam Scott’s very impressive second round of 63 at the Genesis Invitational at the Riviera Country Club this morning. Scott, who has a self-confessed love affair with the park-like layout in suburban Los Angeles, began his round with an eagle at the […]
Austen Truslow – handled the tough conditions well on day two with a best of the day 65 30-year-old American Austen Truslow has the halfway lead at the PGA Tour of Australasia’s New Zealand PGA Championship at the Paraparaumu Golf Club north of Wellington. Truslow, who has focused his playing career in Asia in the […]
The return of tournament golf to one of New Zealand’s finest golfing layouts is the feature of this week’s New Zealand PGA Championship at Paraparaumu Links in the Kapiti region, just north of Wellington. The New Zealand PGA Championship is being staged at the venue for just the second occasion after being first played there […]
Michael Wright – file image Queensland’s Michael Wright, now into his third season on the PGA Tour Champions, has recorded his best finish in 45 starts on that tour when sharing second place at the Chubb Classic in Naples in Florida, the soon to be 52 year old finishing just one shot from the winner, […]
Min Woo Lee – file image courtesy of USGA Min Woo Lee’s impressive share of 2nd place in this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am will see the West Australian improve from 52nd to 31st in the revised world ranking, and while still short of his previous best of 22nd, he moves ahead of Jason […]
Anthony Kim – the long wait is over – image LIV Golf Professional golf has, over a long period of time, shown a capacity to produce some amazing feel-good stories. On occasions, it involves the retirement of a long-standing hero of the game, on others a victory by a relative unknown in a major championship […]
Min Woo Lee – file photo – in the firing line in the US$20 million event Min Woo Lee has produced a second round of 65 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am, his second round of 7 under 65 at Pebble Beach Links improving him 14 positions from his opening round of 67 at […]