Entries by Bruce Young

Lydia Ko wins Gold and joins LPGA Hall of Fame

An emotional Lydia Ko stands atop the Olympic dais following her stunning victory- image PGA Tour / IGF New Zealand’s Lydia Ko has established herself amongst the legends of golf with victory at the Olympic Women’s Golf Competition in Paris, holding off a brilliant final-round burst by Germany’s  Esther Henseleit to win by two and […]

Lydia Ko faces potential milestone day

Lydia Ko – shares the 54 hole lead with Morgane Montreaux –  image PGA Tour/ IGF New Zealand’s Lydia Ko tees it up in the final round of the Olympic Women’s Competition at Le Golf National in Paris later today with one of the most significant days in her already stunning career ahead of her. […]

Bosio bows out of US Women’s Amateur

Justice Bosio in her round of 32 match which she lost 4@2 – image Kathryn Riley USGA Queenslander Justice Bosio has been beaten in the round of 32 at the US Women’s Amateur Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma, going down 4&2 to Californian Asterisk Talley in a match in which she was always behind. Talley has […]

Lydia Ko moves into medal contention in Paris

Lydia Ko hits her tee shot at the 17th today – image PGA Tour / IGF New Zealand’s Lydia Ko has increased her chances of adding a Gold Medal to the Silver and Bronze Olympic Medals she already has in her possession with a second round of 67 at Le Golf National and as the […]

Justice Bosio into match play at US Women’s Amateur

The prestigious US Women’s Amateur trophy – image USGA Queensland’s Justice Bosio, the only Australian in the field at the US Women’s Amateur in Tulsa Oklahoma, has made it into the top 64 to advance to the match play phase. Bosio, from Caboolture on the Sunshine Coast, recovered from an opening round of 77 on […]

Hannah Green a medal prospect in Paris

Hannah Green – during practice this week – image PGA Tour / IGF Perth’s Hannah Green enters tomorrow’s opening round of the Women’s Olympic competition as Australasia’s highest world-ranked golfer (6th) following a year that has seen her win two LPGA Tour titles and sit in 3rd place in the Race to the Globe standings, […]

Lydia Ko Chasing trio of Olympic Medals

Lydia Ko – with her Silver Medal in Rio – can she make it three Lydia Ko is, this week, playing her third Olympic golf competition at Le Golf National, one of 16 players in this week’s event to have played all three Olympics since the sport’s return to the Olympic family in 2016. Ko […]

Lee, Ko and Green Australasian reps at Women’s Olympics

Minjee Lee – in action at Tokyo Olympics – image IGF With the Men’s Olympic competition now done and dusted, attention turns to this week’s 72 hole event for the women where Nelly Korda will defend the title she won in Tokyo. Like the men’s winner Scottie Scheffler, Korda has been the hottest female golfer […]

Scheffler adds another title to his list in Paris

Fleetwood (Silver) Scheffler (Gold) and Matsuyama (Bronze) – image PGA Tour / IGF It was going to take something very special from the world’s undisputed number one golfer Scottie Scheffler if he was going to chase down the leaders heading into the final round of the Men’s Olympic competition in France, and he produced just […]