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.
Frenchman, Mike Lorenzo-Vera, has opened up a three-shot lead at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship Dubai, putting a gap of three shots between he and Spain’s Jon Rahm and England’s Tommy Fleetwood. Lorenzo-Vera, who played alongside World Number Two Rory McIlroy, opened his second round with back-to-back birdies on his way to carding a […]
Brad Kennedy- four from the lead – file Two of the Japan Tour’s most dominant players share the halfway lead at the Dunlop Phoenix Tournament in Miyazaki in southern Japan, Yuta Ikeda and Shugo Imahira at 5 under and ahead by one over Jung Gon Hwang and the impressive American rookie Collin Morikawa. Ikeda has […]
Queensland’s Jake McLeod will get a second opportunity at the European Tour in 2020 after finishing in a tie for 13th place at the Final Stage of Q School completed this morning in Tarragona in Spain. The 25 year old, who completed his first season in Europe in 2019 after winning the PGA Tour of […]
The winner Tommy Fleetwood – Getty Images Perth’s Jason Scrivener has secured his biggest cheque as a professional and gained access to next week’s season ending DP World Tour Championship Dubai with an impressive share of 3rd place at the Nedbank Challenge at Sun City in South Africa. Scrivener earned a cheque for nearly $A550,000 […]
Japan’s 21-year old amateur, Takumi Kanaya, appears as if he might well follow in the footsteps of Ryo Ishikawa and Hideki Matsuyama and become the next Japanese superstar on the world stage following his surprise victory in today’s Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters in Gotemba, south of Tokyo. Kanaya, who is currently the leading amateur […]
Jason Scrivener – file photo Perth’s Jason Scrivener finds himself in a very similar position to that he was in a week ago, needing a big weekend in the European Tour event he is playing to potentially make it to the season ending DP World Tour Championship Dubai. Only the 50 leading players on the […]
Brendan Jones remains as the leading Australian at the Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters in Gotemba in the shadows of Mt Fuji, but, after sharing the opening round lead, the Canberra golfer has slipped to a share of 9th place and four shots off the lead held by Ryuji Masaoka and Y.E Yang. Jones’ second […]
Even a bogey at the final hole of his opening round at the Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters in Japan today, was not enough to stop former winner, Brendan Jones, from taking a share of the first-round lead in one of the Japan Tour’s more significant events. Jones, who won this event in 2007 with […]
photo – Brett Rumford- already a six time European Tour winner 13 Australasians will this week attempt to gain or regain full playing rights to the European Tour when the final stage of the European Tour School begins in Tarragona in Spain on Friday. The field of 156 players who have made their way through […]
Tyrrell Hatton has survived a five-way playoff to win the Turkish Airlines Open in Antalya, outlasting the long-time leader in the event, Matthias Schwab, with a birdie at the 4th extra hole to Schwab’s bogey securing the title for the 28-year old Englishman. It was Hatton’s 4th European Tour title and the US$2 million winner’s […]