Entries by Bruce Young

Steve Alker’s strong major Sunday just fails

Steve Alker – image PGA of America New Zealand’s Steve Alker extended his lead at the top of the Charl Schwab Cup points table with a runner-up finish in the opening major of the PGA Tour Champions, the Regions Traditions in Birmingham, Alabama this morning. Alker’s brilliant final round of 63 was by three shots […]

Hannah Green wins 5th LPGA Tour title

Hannah Green – file photo courtesy of LPGA / Getty Perth’s Hannah Green has today won her 5th LPGA Tour title and her second of 2024 with a three-shot victory over Sweden’s Maja Stark at the JM Eagle LA Championship in Los Angeles. Green, who was the defending champion after her playoff win in the […]

Steele wins in Adelaide Australians take team title

Brendan Steele – image LIV Golf American 41-year-old Brendan Steele won the second edition of LIV Golf Adelaide, holding off challenges from as many as eight other golfers in today’s final round in front of 35,000 at the Grange Golf Club. In eighteen previous starts since joining Liv Golf in early 2023 Steele had yet […]

Grace Kim takes four shot lead in Los Angeles

Grace Kim – file photo AWPGA 23-year-old Grace Kim has opened up a four-shot lead at the halfway mark of the LPGA Tour event in Los Angeles, the Sydney golfer chasing a second LPGA Tour title nearly twelve months after her breakthrough win in her rookie season last year. Kim who opened with a round […]

Japan’s Kozuma holds early Liv Golf Adelaide lead

Kunichiro Kazuma – walks to the 12th tee today – image courtesy of LIV Golf  Liv Golf returned to Australian shores this week with the second staging of LIV Golf Adelaide at the Grange Golf Club and if the first day was anything to go by then the event promises to exceed the heights of […]

Wade Ormsby runner-up in Saudi Open

Wade Ormsby – file photo South Australian Wade Ormsby has finished runner-up at the Asian Tour’s Saudi Open in Riyadh and although finishing seven shots behind the winner, John Catlin of the USA, the 44-year-old earns US$110,000 and improves to 8th on the Asian Tour Order of Merit for 2024. Ormsby acknowledged the emphatic win […]

Scott Hend contends again at Saudi Open

In just his second event since his agonising and narrow loss at the New Zealand Open in Queenstown, Scott Hend again finds himself contending in an Asian Tour event, the veteran Queenslander just one off the lead at the halfway mark of the Saudi Open at the Riyadh Golf Club. Hend, who three-putted the last […]

Large Australasian representation at women’s first major

Lydia Ko – currently second on Race to the Globe – image LPGA  Just a few days after the first major of the year for men’s golf was completed at Augusta National, women’s golf gets its major season underway with the staging of the Chevron Championship at the Woodlands just outside of Houston in Texas. […]