Entries by Bruce Young

American Austen Truslow handles Paraparaumu’s demands

Austen Truslow – handled the tough conditions well on day two with a best of the day 65  30-year-old American Austen Truslow has the halfway lead at the PGA Tour of Australasia’s New Zealand PGA Championship at the Paraparaumu Golf Club north of Wellington. Truslow, who has focused his playing career in Asia in the […]

Paraparaumu Beach gets the exposure it deserves

The return of tournament golf to one of New Zealand’s finest golfing layouts is the feature of this week’s New Zealand PGA Championship at Paraparaumu Links in the Kapiti region, just north of Wellington. The New Zealand PGA Championship is being staged at the venue for just the second occasion after being first played there […]

Michael Wright records best PGA Tour Champions finish

Michael Wright – file image  Queensland’s Michael Wright, now into his third season on the PGA Tour Champions, has recorded his best finish in 45 starts on that tour when sharing second place at the Chubb Classic in Naples in Florida, the soon to be 52 year old finishing just one shot from the winner, […]

Anthony Kim – another of golf’s great feel good stories

Anthony Kim – the long wait is over – image LIV Golf Professional golf has, over a long period of time, shown a capacity to produce some amazing feel-good stories. On occasions, it involves the retirement of a long-standing hero of the game, on others a victory by a relative unknown in a major championship […]

Min Woo Lee contends at Pebble Beach

Min Woo Lee – file photo – in the firing line in the US$20 million event Min Woo Lee has produced a second round of 65 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am, his second round of 7 under 65 at Pebble Beach Links improving him 14 positions from his opening round of 67 at […]

New Zealand’s Ben Campbell shines in Adelaide

Ben Campbell – hits his tee shot at the 12th today – image LIV Golf  New Zealand’s Ben Campbell, only recently reunited with his Range Goats team, has fully justified his recall with a second round of 63 at the LIV Golf Adelaide event, and at the halfway mark of the event at the Grange […]

Expectations grow for Rippers GC in Adelaide

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. […]

Pebble Beach begins PGA Tour’s Signature events

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 […]

Powerful finish earns Declan O’Donovan Sydney title

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 […]