Bruce Young has established himself as one of Australia’s leading golf journalists and analysts. Since leaving a marketing role in the golf course design company of highly regarded Australian golfer Graham Marsh in 1999, Bruce has created a portfolio of golf related work in internet, print, radio and television commentary and has recently branched out into hosting lunches and other MC related activities.
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 – 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 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 […]
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 – 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 – 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 […]
Fitzpatrick with his Alfred Dunhill Links Championship trophy – image Getty Images / DP World Tour The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship found a way to get a final result despite the event being hopelessly compromised by bad weather in the At Andrews region, Matthew Fitzpatrick emerging as the winner of both the individual title and […]
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 […]
Steve Alker – file photo courtesy of Montana Pritchard Steve Alker has today produced his fourth runner-up finish of the season when completing the Constellation Furyk and Friends event in Jacksonville, Florida just one shot from the winner, Brett Quigley. Quigley needed an impressive up and down at the last to hold off Alker who […]
Rhein Gibson – leading Australian but will now head to Q School in the hope of a PGA Tour return – file photo The four Australians in this week’s Korn Ferry Tour Championship in Indiana have missed out on a chance to gain their PGA Tour playing rights for 2024, failing to finish inside the […]