Entries by Bruce Young

Minjee Lee takes lead at the BMW Ladies Championship

Minjee Lee acknowledges the crowd at the 16th today – photo Getty Images / LPGA Minjee Lee added a second round of 69 to her opening 64 at the BMW Ladies Championship at the Seowon Valley Country Club in Korea and has opened up a two-shot lead at the halfway mark of the LPGA Tour […]

Australia well placed at Eisenhower Trophy

Jeffrey Guan – in action during round two – image IGF The World Amateur Teams Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy has reached the halfway stage at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club in the United Arab Emirates and the Australian team finds itself just two shots off the pace set at present by the United States […]

World Amateur Teams Championship begins in Abu Dhabi

The 2016 winning Australian side – can Australia win for a fifth time? – photo WATC Australia and New Zealand are amongst the 36 teams contesting this week’s World Amateur Team Championship at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club in the United Arab Emirates, the Australians chasing a fifth win in the event and New Zealand […]

Rod Pampling wins second PGA Tour Champions title

Rod Pampling – file photo USGA It was an Australasian quinella in this week’s PGA Tour Champions event in Cary, North Carolina, with Australian Rod Pampling winning his second PGA Tour Champions title with a two-shot win over New Zealand’s Steve Alker at the SAS Championship. Pampling secured a cheque for US$315,000, taking his career […]

Min Woo Lee wins first Asian Tour title in Macao

Min Woo Lee and trophy – photo Paul Lakatos / Asian Tour Macau, October 15: Australia’s Min Woo Lee recorded an exceptional two-shot wire-to-wire victory in the US$1 million SJM Macao Open today, for his first title in two years. The tournament’s marquee player, ranked 46 in the world, hit crushing drives and holed putt after […]

Important finish for Brad Kennedy at the Japan Open

Brad Kennedy – file photo Japan Golf Tour Gold Coast golfer, Brad Kennedy, has struggled for much of the 2023 Japan Golf Tour season but at this week’s Japan Open Championship, he found form at a time that was so crucial in his quest to retain the right to play the tour next year. The […]

Karis Davidson’s timely LPGA form

Karis Davidson – file photo LPGA/Getty Images Gold Coast golfer Karis Davidson’s share of 8th place in today’s LPGA Tour event in Shanghai is perhaps a finish that comes with mixed emotions. The Scottish born but now Gold Coast resident actually reached a share of the lead during various stages of the final round at […]

Ben Eccles claims first professional win at WAPGA

Ben Eccles – photo Australian Golf Media  Australian Ben Eccles has today claimed his second PGA Tour of Australasia title nearly eight years after his first when winning the WAPGA Championship at the Kalgoorlie Golf Course in Western Australia today. This however would be Eccle’s first win as a professional, his win at the 2015 […]

Sarah Kemp and Sarah Jane Smith do well in Texas

NSW’s golfer Sarah Kemp has produced her equal-best finish in an LPGA Tuor event on US soil when 4th at this past week’s LPGA Benefiting Volunteers of America event in Colony Texas, securing an important cheque of some US$93,000 for her efforts, the biggest cheque of her professional career. Kemp finished five shots from the […]