Entries by Bruce Young

Five Australasians make LPGA Tour’s season finale

Lydia Ko with one of her two CME Group Tour Championship trophies – can she make it three? Image Getty / LPGA This week’s CME Tour Championship at the Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, brings to a close the 2025 LPGA Tour season, the leading 60 in the Race to the CME Globe year-long […]

Fitzpatrick outguns MCilroy in dramatic season finale in Dubai

Fitzpatrick wins the Tour Championship, but McIlroy the Race to Dubai Standings – image Getty Images  Matt Fitzpatrick’s impressive return to the sort of game that saw him the US Open Champion in 2022 and twice a winner of this event previously, continued most dramatically in Dubai this weekend when he emerged from a playoff […]

Chris Wood’s NSW Open victory may delay retirement plans

Chris Wood – every reason to smile – image credit Golf NSW Brisbane golfer Chris Wood emerged from a four-hole playoff to win the Ford NSW Open at the Vintage Golf Club in the Hunter Valley, the 34-year-old claiming his second PGA Tour of Australasia title but, by some way, his most important. Four years […]

Exciting weekend ahead for Daniel Hillier in Dubai

Daniel Hillier – file image courtesy of Photo Sport NZ / NZ Open  New Zealand’s Daniel Hillier is continuing his impressive late-season form and finds himself in a share of second place at the halfway stage of the season-ending DP World Tour Championship at Jumeira Golf Estate in Dubai. Hillier added a second round of […]

Winless pair lead NSW Open

Lucas Higgins – in action on day two – image Australian Golf Media One of the more significant events on the PGA Tour of Australasia, the A$800,000 NSW Open, has reached the halfway stage, and Victorian Darcy Brereton and NSW’s Lucas Higgins have the lead at 7 under, two ahead of Victorian Ben Henkel. Brereton, […]

Perth’s Connor McKinney earns DP World Tour card

Connor McKinney – file image Australian Golf Media Australia will have one further representative on the DP World Tour next season following the completion of Qualifying in Spain overnight. Perth’s Connor McKinney was in or near the lead following his brilliant opening round of 62, eventually finishing 2nd to South Africa’s Zander Lombard and claiming […]

Exciting climax in prospect in Dubai

Daniel Hillier – could find himself with a PGA Tour card -file image courtesy of NZ Open The 2024/2025 DP World Tour season reaches its climax this week when the DP World Tour Championship is played over the Earth Course at the Jameira Estates in Dubai. The leading 50 players from the Race to Dubai […]

Big week ahead for Daniel Hillier

Daniel Hillier – file image courtesy of NZ Open  The DP World Tour heads east to Dubai for this week’s DP World Tour Championship at the Earth Course at the Jumeirah Estates, the season-ending event consisting of the leading 50 players in the Race to Dubai rankings after this past weekend’s Abu Dhabi Championship. Amongst […]

Smylie, Hillier and Kobori chasing late season success

The 2024/2025 Elvis Smylie – chasing a big finish over the next two weeks. DP World Tour season stages its penultimate event this week when the US$9 million Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship is played at the Yas Links Golf Club. With the leading 50 in the Race to Dubai determining just who will advance to […]