Entries by Bruce Young

Amateur Harrison Crowe takes NSW Open title

Harrison Crowe with his trophy – photo Golf NSW 20-year-old New South Wales golfer, Harrison Crowe, became the third amateur in recent memory to win the NSW Open Championship after the weather shortened event was completed today at the Concord Golf Club in the inner west of Sydney. The last amateur to win the title […]

Stephanie Kyriacou performing well ahead of LPGA Tour debut

Stephanie Kyriacou in action this week – photo Ladies European Tour Sydney’s Stephanie Kyriacou, now a fully-fledged member of the LPGA Tour, is back in the happy hunting ground for her of the Ladies European Tour this week and she is again performing well. The 21-year-old from the St Michael’s Golf Club in Sydney, finds […]

Collyer and Crowe show the way at Concord Golf Club

Blake Collyer – in action today – photo Golf NSW Victorian, Blake Collyer, and exciting Sydney amateur, Harrison Crowe, have the halfway lead at the Golf Challenge NSW Open at the Concord Golf Club in Sydney’s inner west. The pair are tied at 14 under par through 36 holes in what has been a low […]

NSW Open victory could open important door for many

Defending champion Bryden Macpherson playing well enough to contend again – photo Golf NSW One of Australian golf’s more iconic titles is to be decided this week at the Concord Golf Club in Sydney, the Golf Challenge NSW Open one of the more lucrative of the PGA Tour of Australasia after Covid had taken its […]

Cameron Smith’s standing in world golf taken to another level

Cameron Smith being interviewed after his win 28 year old Cameron Smith was arguably amongst the game’s elite even before his historic victory over an equally determined India’s Anirban Lahiri in today’s final round of the Players Championship, but his hard-fought one shot victory in golf’s richest tournament takes him to a career high 6th […]

Aaron Pike wins playoff for TPS Hunter Valley title

Pike with his TPS Hunter Valley trophy – photo PGA of Australia Queensland’s 37-year-old Aaron Pike has today won his third PGA Tour of Australasia title with a playoff victory over 22-year-old New Zealander, Momoka Kobori, in the mixed gender event, the TPS Hunter Valley, played at the Cypress Lakes Resort in Pokolbin, New South […]

Cameron Smith creeping closer at Players Championship

Cameron Smith – just two from the lead – file photo IGF Cameron Smith has played only one hole in round two of the Players Championship but a birdie from 25 feet at that hole has seen the Queenslander leap nine positions in the horrific conditions that prevailed on day three to a share of […]

Weather chaos at Players Championship

Jason Day – back after time away to mark the passing of his mother Denning Play in the second round of the US$20 million Players Championship at the TPC Sawgrass at Ponte Vedra Beach in Florida was again disrupted by rain deluges and storms and at the end of day two more than forty players […]

Su Oh chasing first LPGA Tour title in Thailand

Su Oh – on course this week – photo Getty Images A tap in eagle at her final hole of today’s second round of the Honda LPGA event in Thailand has given Victorian Su Oh a share of the halfway lead with Japan’s Nasa Hataoka at the Siam Country Club in Chonburi in Thailand and […]

Eight Australasians chasing record US$20 million Players purse

Adam Scott – previous winner and playing well – file photo European Tour The Players Championship, the USPGA Tour’s flagship event, has long been considered one of golf’s most significant tournaments, not only for the fascination the TPC Sawgrass provides to television viewers and on-course fans, but that the field is typically one of the […]