Entries by Bruce Young

Ruffels Remains Alive at US Women’s Am

Ruffels in action today – Chris Keane USGA Australia’s Gabriela Ruffels hopes of a second consecutive US Women’s Amateur Championship title remain alive following success in her Round of 32 and Round of 16 matches at the Woodmont Golf Club in Maryland today. Ruffels was behind early in both matches but fought back from a […]

Jason Day Shares PGA Championship Lead

Jason Day in action today – photo courtesy of  PGA of America Australian Jason Day has opened with a round of 5 under par 65 at the PGA Championship at the TPC Harding near San Francisco and shares the lead with American Brendon Todd at the end of day one. That pair is one shot […]

Mahar and Ruffels Advance at US Women’s Amateur

Brisbane’s Emily Mahar in action during her win today – Chris Keane USGA Australians Gabriela Ruffels and Emily Mahar have advanced to the second round of the US Women’s Amateur Championship in Rockville in Maryland. The only other Australian in the event, Kirsty Hodgkins, was eliminated after losing to Malaysia’s Alyaa Abdulghany. Ruffels, who is […]

Gabi Ruffels begins well in US Amateur Defence

Ruffels in action today – photo Chris Keane USGA Victorian, Gabriela Ruffels, has made a promising start to the defence of her US Women’s Amateur Championship, the 20 year old daughter of tennis champions, Ray Ruffels and Anna-Maria Fernandez, and sister to celebrated young Australian professional, Ryan Ruffels, today finishing equal 5th in the stroke-play […]

Jason Day Shaping as Australia’s Hope at Harding Park

Can Day add another major to his 2015 PGA Championship? – photo PGA of America Four months after it was meant to happen, the first major golf title of the year will be decided this week at the TPC Harding Park, just outside of San Francisco, where the USPGA Championship is up for grabs. Amongst […]

A Friendship With Norman Von Nida

It was July 2000 and, on the eve of what would be Tiger Woods’ first of three Open Championship victories, I was preparing to head to Brisbane for my then regular radio spot on the Radio TAB network. 18 months earlier I had made the decision to leave Graham Marsh’s golf course design company and […]

The 1994 US Senior Open – One That Got Away

Grainy footage from the TV coverage shows Graham Marsh and I on the 72nd hole. As 1990 drew to a close, so too did my involvement in the dual role as caddy / assistant to Graham Marsh, a role which had involved caddying on the Japan Golf Tour amongst other business-related activities. As Graham’s golf […]

The Japan Golf Tour – A Very Special Experience

Graham Marsh and I study a putt in Japan – the blind leading the blind – perhaps  My previous memoir included the last event in New Zealand in which I would caddy. It brought one chapter of my involvement in professional golf to an end but another was about to open up. In September of […]

1983 – The End Of An Amazing Ride

John Lister again thrilling a New Zealand crowd as I look on 1983 would see me caddying in my last season in New Zealand. To some extent the season was bitter/sweet in that it brought to an end a long, rewarding and very successful association with New Zealander John Lister but opened up a new […]