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.
Elvis Smylie and Cam Smith enjoying their Tuesday Media appearance LIV Golf returns to Australia this week with the 4th staging of the LIV Golf Adelaide event at the Grange Golf Club, where the Australian Ripper GC team not only takes the role as the sentimental favourites but arguably the favourites to win the title. […]
Defending champion – Rory McIlroy – image Golf Australia The PGA Tour’s first of eight Signature Events is played this week at Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill Golf Course, with the select 80-man field taking on two of the most iconic layouts in the US in an event worth US$3.6 million to the […]
Declan O’Donovan – image PGA of Australia 22 year old Sydney golfer, Declan O’Donovan, in just his 7th start as a professional since turning to the paid ranks last November, today not only won his first PGA Tour of Australasia title, but he did so in the most emphatic fashion. O’Donovan began the final round […]
Elvis Smylie – image courtesy of LIV Golf 23-year-old Australian Elvis Smylie has made a dream start to his LIV Golf career with a win in the opening event of the 2026 LIV Golf Schedule when taking out the LIV Golf Riyadh event in Saudi Arabia. Smylie, who joined LIV Golf in January after a […]
Brady Watt in action today – image PGA of Australia Perth’s Brady Watt has the halfway lead in the weather-interrupted Webex Player Series Sydney, being played at the Castle Hill Golf Club in Sydney’s north-western suburbs. The 35-year-old Watt, at one stage the world’s leading amateur after his semi-final placing at the US Amateur Championship […]
Jazy Roberts and Billy Dowling – image Golf Australia Gold Coast’s Billy Dowling has threatened for some time to break through for a significant win, whether it be in professional or amateur events, but today he took out the most coveted title in Australian amateur golf by winning the Australian Amateur Championship at the […]
Sir Bob Charles and I – a walk and talk chat for TV as he plays his supposedly last NZ Open in 2004 With the 2026 New Zealand Open fast approaching, my involvement in a commentary role again rekindles some lovely memories of an event which I first attended in 1971 as an 18-year-old, beginning […]
Daniel Hillier – file image courtesy of PhotosportNZ / NZ Open New Zealand golfer Daniel Hillier’s outstanding run of form in DP World Tour events continued overnight when the 27-year-old finished in a share of 4th place at the DP World Tour’s Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Hiller finished in a […]
Haydn Barron – finally the breakthrough – image PGA of Australia Despite a shaky start when leading into the final round of the Webex Player Series Murray River event at Cobram Barooga’s Old Course on the Murray River, soon to be 30 year old Haydn Barron has today broken through for a first PGA Tour […]
Lydia Ko – shares the lead in a tournament she won two years ago – file image USGA New Zealand’s Lydia Ko and England’s LPGA Tour second-season player, Lottie Woad, share the halfway lead at the season-opening Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions at the Lake Nona Golf and Country Club in Orlando. Ko, who […]