Entries by Bruce Young

Japan’s golfing stocks rise with Kodaira win

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 […]

Japan Golf Tour begins its domestic season

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. […]

Marc Leishman – Is It His Turn?

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 […]

The Masters lives up to its billing

There has been so much speculation ahead of the 2018 Masters as to just where this year’s version sits in terms of anticipation – many suggesting, because of the numerous story-lines involved, that it is perhaps the most anticipated ever. The events of day one have suggested that hype was not overdone with not only […]

Augusta National Women’s Amateur – innovative but no surprise

The news today that Augusta National Golf Club (ANGC) and the Masters Tournament Foundation are the founding partners in establishing the Augusta National Women’s Amateur Championship comes as no real surprise. Having seen first-hand their just how much tangible support the Masters Tournament provides for not only the Asia Pacific Amateur Championship, but also the […]

Jordan Spieth and Augusta National – inseparable

Jordan Spieth begins this week’s Masters as the player with the hottest record in the event in recent years. Twice a winner and once runner up in his last four starts and 11th last year after being well into contention heading into the final round, Spieth’s game suits Augusta National and vice-versa. Today, in a […]

Jason Day looks ahead to 8th Masters Appearance

Five years after Adam Scott’s breakthrough for Australia at the Masters which in turn came nearly eighty years after the event was first played, Australian hopes at Augusta National this year appear to rely on Jason Day converting his outstanding record at Augusta National into his second major championship title and Australia’s second Green Jacket. […]

The 2018 Masters – A Form Guide

The Masters captures the attention of not just the golfing world but the sporting world generally. As is so often the case with all of the great sporting events internationally, everyone, golf fans and others, become experts during tournament week and for golf that is a very good thing. Picking a winner is never easy […]

The Original World Match Play

The week of the W.G.C Dell Technologies Match Play Championship, or its equivalent, over the past 18 years rekindles, for me, memories of what was previously known as the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth near London. While the more recent version of the game’s most significant match play championship contains both a larger field […]