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.
picture – Matt Jones the last Australian to win a One Asia Tour event Earlier this year the golfing world was surprised by the announcement, essentially in the week of the tournament, that the Solaire Philippine Open would become a One Asia Tour event and that it would be the first of several on a […]
Anthony Quayle’s runner-up finish at the Japan Golf Tour’s Crowns Tournament in Nagoya provides further evidence that the 23-year old Gold Coast based Northern Territorian is rapidly developing into one of Australia’s most promising young players. It was his best finish to date since turning professional, was by some way his biggest cheque (A$120,000), provides […]
Brendan Jones with the 2011 Crowns Tournament Trophy 43 year old Australian Brendan Jones is in contention for yet another victory in Japan and if he was to convert his second place at the halfway point of the Crowns Tournament in Nagoya this weekend it would be his 15th title on the Japan Golf Tour. […]
While she will no doubt be disappointed by her near miss in a Ladies European Tour event in Morocco over the weekend, 32 year old New South Wales golfer, Sarah Kemp, will be buoyed by the boost it has given her both in terms of confidence and bank balance and that it vindicates what must […]
He might have only just made the cut at the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio today but for 47 year old Queenslander John Senden it may well have felt like a performance of far greater significance and, to add to the joy, it was his birthday. Twelve months ago, following this very event, Senden […]
43 year old New Zealander Mark Brown today became one of just two players to break 60 on two occasions when he achieved the feat during the second round of the Jennian Homes Charles Tour’s Carrus Tauranga Open in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty. Jim Furyk achieved the same feat when he produced a round […]
In winning the RBC Heritage Classic in a playoff against Si Woo Kim on Hilton Head Island today, 28-year old Japanese golfer Satoshi Kodaira became just the 4th golfer from his country to win on the PGA Tour. As a result of his win Kodaira moves to a personal high of 27 in the world […]
The Japan Golf Tour’s domestic season gets underway this week with the staging of their traditional season opener, the Token Homemate Cup in Nagoya. While the Japan Tour has already played two events of their 2018 schedule, those events were in Myanmar and Singapore which has now been the case for the past three years. […]
Patrick Reed’s Masters victory today takes him to another level in the game, moving the 27 year old to 11th in the world ranking from his previous 24th and although he has been as high as 7th 18 months ago, this win takes him to a level in the game both in reality and perception […]
Marc Leishman has often shown in his now nearly ten years on the PGA Tour that he has the right stuff in terms of contending and potentially winning a major championship. This weekend he gets another chance to break through and win at the one of the four major titles when he heads into the […]