Entries by Bruce Young

Andrew Martin wins cliffhanger in Darwin

Andrew Martin – image Australian Golf Media Former Australian Amateur Champion, Andrew Martin, has held off a spirited challenge from New South Wales golfer, Nathan Barbieri, to win the second event of the 2025/2026 PGA Tour of Australasia season’s schedule, the Northern Territory PGA Championship at the Palmerston Golf Club near Darwin. 41-year-old Martin began […]

Hannah Green finds form in Massachusetts

Hannah Green – file photo  Off the back of four consecutive missed cuts and a best of 12th in her last nine LPGA Tour starts, Australia’s Hannah Green is contending at the halfway stage of the FM Championship in Norton in Massachusetts. Weather, then darkness, caused play to be called at 7.15 pm with many […]

The Omega European Masters – then and now

The great Sir Bob Charles and yours truly during his 1974 Swiss Open victory 51 years ago, I arrived in Crans-sur-Sierre above the Rhone Valley of Switzerland for the 1974 Swiss Open around 9.00pm, having sailed on the hovercraft across the English Channel to Bolougne and then driven across France and Switzerland to this most […]

Minjee Lee runner-up to local favourite Brooke Henderson in Canada

Australia’s Minjee Lee file photo – image Australian Golf Media  Minjee Lee continued yet another fine season on the LPGA Tour with a runner-up finish behind Canada’s favourite golfing daughter and one of its finest sporting stars, Brook Henderson, at the CPKC Women’s Open (Canadian Open) at the Mississauga Golf and Country Club outside of […]

Huge week for Kazuma Kobori at British Masters

Kazuma Kobori – file photo – image Australian Golf Media 23-year-old Kazuma Kobori has recorded the best finish of his rookie DP World Tour season with a share of the runner-up place at the British Masters at the Belfry. A stunning closing stretch of 6 under over his last six holes, including two consecutive putts […]

Karrie Webb back competing at US Senior Women’s Open

Karrie Webb in action this week – image USGA Australian golfing legend Karrie Webb played this week’s US Senior Women’s Open in San Diego and although she is likely to finish well off the pace, the seven-time major winner enjoyed the experience of being back playing competitive golf. “So far it’s been fun catching up […]

Kobori and Smylie in contention at the Belfry

Kazuma Kobori in contention after three missed cuts in a row – image Australian Golf Media The winners of the PGA Tour of Australsia’s Order of Merit in each of the last two years, Kazuma Kobori and Elvis Smylie, are nicely placed at the halfway mark of the British Masters at The Belfry. 23-year-old Kobori […]

No Australian at Tour Championship for first time since 1998

Jason Day finished best of the Australasians in the FedEx Cup standings but missed out on Atlanta – image courtesy of USGA Australia is without a representative in the Tour Championship for the first time since 1998, when the event gets underway at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta this Thursday. Jason Day was […]

Cory Crawford wins opening event of Australasian Tour season

Crawford holds a second PNG Open trophy – image Australian Golf Media Gold Coast-based Cory Crawford has won the opening event of the 2025/2026 PGA Tour of Australasia season with a one-shot victory at the Kumul Minerals PNG Open at the Port Moresby Golf Club. 32-year-old Crawford won the event for the second occasion, having […]

Elvis Smylie records best finish of 2025 in Copenhagen

Smylie a better finish in Copenhagen – image Australian Golf Media Australian Elvis Smylie recorded just his second top ten in 2025 when finishing in a share of 6th place at the Danish Golf Championship in Copenhagen this weekend. In 14 starts in 2025, Smylie had been inside the top ten on only one other […]