Golf Betting for October 31st
This week we assess the chances at the WGC HSBC Championship in Shanghai, the Taiwan Swinging Skirts event on the LPGA Tour and the alternate PGA Tour event, the Bermuda Championship.
About Bruce Young
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.
Entries by Bruce Young
Decision Time for Presidents Cup Hopefuls
Tiger Woods – a decision to make photo Presidents Cup With just one more event in which Presidents Cup captain pick’s hopefuls can make an impression on either Tiger Woods or Ernie Els, this week’s WGC HSBS Champions event in Shanghai takes on even greater importance for many than just its role as one of […]
Tiger Woods joins Sam Snead in historic milestone
Tiger Woods – Getty Images Tiger Woods has joined Sam Snead as the most prolific winner of PGA Tour titles (82) with a three-shot victory over Hideki Matsuyama in the inaugural ZOZO Championship in Chiba near Tokyo today. Woods and the bulk of the field were required to return to the Accordia Golf Narashino C.C. […]
Jake McLeod records best European Tour finish
Jake McLeod – file photo A final round ‘best of the day’ 63 by Queenslander, Jake McLeod, has provided the 25-year old with his best finish and the only top ten of his debut European Tour season to date after sharing 8th place at the Portugal Masters at Vilamoura on the Algarve Peninsula. McLeod, who […]
Campbell Rawson surprise winner of Vic PGA
New Zealander, Campbell Rawson, who had missed three of the four cuts in events he had played on the PGA Tour of Australasia in 2019 and is currently ranked outside the top 2000 in the world, has turned that form upside down with a shock win at the Victorian PGA Championship at RACV Cape Schanck […]
Ha Na Jang wins third LPGA Tour title as Oh slips to 13th
Ha Na Jang – file photo- photo Bruce Young Su Oh and Minjee Lee both finished inside the top twenty at the BMW Ladies Championship in Busan in Korea but, given the hot nature of the scoring on day four, neither was able to get anywhere near the playoff for the title won by Ha […]
Tiger Woods edges clear in Japan
Tiger Woods today – Getty Images Tiger Woods produced a second consecutive round of 64 at the ZOZO Championship to take a two shot lead over Gary Woodland into tomorrow’s third round at the Accordia Golf Narashino CC in Chiba, Japan. With yesterday’s second day’s play, lost to torrential rain, the event resumed today but […]
Is Su Oh on the verge of an LPGA Tour breakthrough?
Su Oh – photo Henry Peters Victorian, Su Oh, has taken over as the leading Australian at the BMW Ladies Championship and in doing so has opened the door for a possible breakthrough LPGA Tour victory with a third round of 67 at the event in Busan in Korea. Oh finds herself in a share […]
Minjee Lee stays in touch in Korea
Australia’s Minjee Lee is just two shots from the lead at the halfway stage of the BMW Ladies Championship in Busan in Korea and, although unable to maintain the early pace she set on day one, she is within striking distance of the leader, Danielle Kang. 23 year old Lee recovered from a slow start […]
Jake McLeod finds timely form in Portugal
Jake McLeod – file photo European Tour rookie, Jake McLeod, has a big task at this week’s Portugal Masters if he is to avoid a trip to the European Tour school in November but he has made a very good start to the second to last event in which he is eligible to play on […]