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.
The current Australian and Queensland PGA Champions, Jed Morgan and Michael Sim at Nudgee today – photo PGA The PGA Tour of Australasia moves just a few kilometres north for this week’s Queensland PGA Championship, the event following on from the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship held at nearby Royal Queensland last week. The event has […]
Morgan in action in yesterday’s final round – photo Bruce Young As mentioned in an earlier article, the win of Jed Morgan in last week’s Fortinet Australian PGA Championship has seen the 22-year-old make an enormous leap in the latest world ranking released today. Perhaps surprisingly the event carried a strong world ranking rating, likely […]
Su Oh and Jed Morgan hold their respective trophies – photo PGA of Australia. 22 year old Jed Morgan not only created history with his winning margin of eleven at the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship today, he became the youngest player to win the title since the event turned to a stroke-play event in 1964 […]
Jed Morgan amongst his many fans today at Royal Queensland – photo PGA of Australia Starting this week’s Fortinet Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland, 22-year-old Jed Morgan was ranked 1522nd in the world. If tomorrow, as is now expected, he goes on to win the significant title he will jump some 1300 positions to […]
Grace Kim in action today – photo PGA of Australia Sydney’s Grace Kim leads the Fortinet Australian Women’s PGA Championship through 36 holes at the Royal Queensland Golf Club, the recently turned professional adding a round of 68 to her opening 69 to lead by one over the pre-tournament favourite, Su Oh, with another of […]
Jed Morgan in action this morning – photo Bruce Young 22-year-old Jed Morgan stole the show on the second morning of the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship at the Royal Queensland Golf Club in Brisbane, the local golfer racing six shots clear of the morning field at the completion of his second round of 63, less […]
Louis Dobbelaar in action at Royal Queensland this week – photo Bruce Young 20-year-old Queensland rookie professional, Louis Dobbelaar, has already experienced a rewarding few weeks, but after taking the opening round lead at the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland things could potentially get significantly better over the next few days. Several weeks […]
Sarah Jane Smith during yesterday’s pro-am Florida based Queenslander, Sarah Jane Smith, is enjoying being back in Australia for the first time in over two years and as the week has progressed at Royal Queensland, the 37-year-old is emerging as a chance to take back to the US more than just the memories of a […]
Gavin Kirkman PGA of Australia C.E.O and Rodger Davis (Chairman) at today’s media conference – photo PGA of Australia The Fortinet Australian PGA Championship and the ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia received a major boost this week when the PGA of Australasia’s CEO, Gavin Kirkman and its Chairman, Rodger Davis, announced an extension of […]
Elvis Smylie plays the pro-am at Royal Queensland today – photo Bruce Young The scarcity of highly world ranked golfers in this week’s Fortinet Australian PGA Championship field opens the door for a young Australian golfer to step up and claim not only one of Australian golf’s most coveted titles but the first prize cheque […]