Entries by Bruce Young

Voke and Kelly lead QLD PGA

Nick Voke – file photo  New Zealand’s Nick Voke and Victorian Andrew Kelly share the halfway lead at the Queensland PGA Championship at the Nudgee Golf Club in Brisbane, the pair at 9 under and one shot ahead of Queensland’s Mitchell Varley. Voke has spent much of this year on the Asian Tour after two […]

PGA Tour of Australasia begins East Coast Swing

Kazuma Kobori exciting addition to the professional ranks – photo APAC The 2023 / 2024 Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia begins its ‘East Coast Swing’ this week when the Queensland PGA Championship gets underway on Thursday at the Nudgee Golf Club in Brisbane’s east. After events in Papua New Guinea, the Northern Territory, Western Australia […]

Jasper Stubbs Australia’s 4th Asia Pacific Amateur Champion

Jasper Stubbs – photo APAC MELBOURNE, Australia – Australia’s Jasper Stubbs claimed an impressive come-from-behind victory in the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship at Royal Melbourne today. The local favorite, who lives two miles from Royal Melbourne, triumphed on the second playoff hole over China’s Wenyi Ding and Sampson Zheng to win the Asia-Pacific Amateur trophy and […]

Australia 6th behind South Korea at Espirito Santo Trophy

The South Koreans winners again – image WATC Australia has finished in a share of 6th place at the Espirito Santo Trophy at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club, unable to capitalise on their fine start to the event earlier in the week when they shared the halfway lead in the 72-hole event. Maddison Hinson-Tolchard’s final […]

Daniel Hillier shares lead at Qatar Masters

Daniel Hillier – file photo  New Zealander Daniel Hillier’s outstanding rookie season on the DP World Tour continues this week with a share of the lead midway through the second round of the Qatar Masters in Doha. Through 11 holes of the darkness-suspended second round of the event at the Doha Golf Club, Hillier has […]

Hannah Green chasing West Australian threepeat

Hannah Green in action this week in Malaysia – photo LPGA / Getty Images  West Australian Hannah Green is keeping the hopes of a West Australian threepeat alive when she enters the weekend at the LPGA Tour’s Maybank Championship in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. Green is just two shots off the lead after rounds of 64 […]

Australia shares Espirito Santo Trophy lead

Justice Bosio – leads the Australians in individual standings – photo WATC The Australian team of Justice Bosio, Maddison Hinson-Tolchard and Caitlin Peirce share the halfway lead with Spain and Thailand at the Espirito Santo Trophy in Abu Dhabi. Queensland’s Bosio added a second round of 68 to her opening 69 to share 4th place […]

Now its the women’s turn in Abu Dhabi

Maddison Hinson Tolchard heads the Australians – file photo USGA Following a good performance by Australasian teams and individuals at last week’s World Amateur Teams Championship (The Eisenhower Trophy) the women get their turn in Abu Dhabi this week. The Australian team of West Australian Maddison Hinson-Tolchard, Queensland’s Justice Bosio and South Australian Caitlin Peirce […]

Richard Green’s successful rookie year continues in Virginia

Richard Green – file photo PGA of America Richard Green might have missed out on a first PGA Tour Champions victory last weekend when beaten at the first extra hole of a playoff with Harrison Frazar, but the 52-year-old Victorian has cemented his standing on the PGA Tour Champions, moving up seven positions to 17th […]

Minjee Lee keeps it in the family at BMW Ladies

Minjee Lee – LPGA win # 10 – image Getty / LPGA Just seven days after her brother Minwoo Lee’s first Asian Tour victory and his third as a professional, Minjee Lee has today won her 10th LPGA Tour title with a playoff victory over American Alison Lee to win the BMW Ladies Championship at […]