Entries by Bruce Young

Minjee Lee returns from break to finish runner-up

Minjee Lee – photo Kyle Rivas – Getty Images Minjee Lee has added yet another high finish to what has been a breakthrough year in many respects, when finishing joint runner-up at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship in Rogers, Arkansas. Lee shared the lead into to day’s final round and was still a factor playing […]

Anthony Quayle records best finish in Japan in 2021

Anthony Quayle – file photo NZPGA The Japan Golf Tour never really gets the exposure it perhaps deserves and in this time of Covid related restrictions, that obscurity has been heightened, as, for much of the 2021 season, the tour featured mainly Japanese players without the significant contingent of foreigners who would otherwise ply their […]

Europe need history rewritten to take the cup back home

Day two action at Whistling Straits – Maddie Myer PGA of America The European Ryder Cup side faces a massive task if it is to retain the Ryder Cup it won in Paris three years ago after sharing fourball honours on Saturday afternoon at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. Now trailing by a huge six point […]

Now its Minjee Lee’s turn to share Arkansas lead

Minjee Lee – photo Kyle Rivas Getty Images Yesterday it was Australia’s Katherine Kirk who shared the lead at the LPGA’s Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, today it is her fellow countrywoman, Minjee Lee, who has that honour, the West Australian tied for the lead with one round remaining in the event in Rogers, Arkansas. Lee […]

Katherine Kirk shares lead in Arkansas

Katherine Kirk – file photo Bruce Young Australian Katherine Kirk’s year in 2021 has been a struggle to date but, just as her fellow countrywoman, Su Oh, did last week in Portland she might well have turned a corner with an opening round of 8 under par 63 in the opening round of this week’s […]

The Ryder Cup – one of Sport’s greatest battles

The Ryder Cup – photo PGA of America As has been so often the case, even over the 42 years since the Ryder Cup developed in 1979 into a contest between Europe and the USA rather than just Great Britain and the USA, the Americans will start the on-paper favourites at this week’s edition of […]

Impressive PGA Tour Champions week for Australasians

John Senden file photo – records top ten on PGA Tour Champions Four Australasians have finished inside the top 12 players of the PGA Tour Champions Sanford International in Sioux Falls in South Dakota, making it one of the most successful weeks ever in terms of the number of down-under golfers featuring in a PGA […]

Su Oh finishes runner-up in Portland Oregon

Su Oh – a timely return to form – Steve Dykes Getty Images Victorian Su Oh has equaled her best ever finish on the LPGA Tour when finishing runner-up at the Cambia Portland Classic in Oregon this weekend. Oh finished tied for second with Jeongeun Lee and four shots behind the former world number one, […]