Entries by Bruce Young

Lee and Davis ready to strike at Players Championship

Min Woo Lee – file photo – Bruce Young Australians enjoy an impressive record at the Players Championship with five of them winning a total of six championships and two having finished runner-up, and, tomorrow, yet another name just might be added to the list. The second and third rounds were completed on day three […]

Dobbelaar and Yeo lead NZPGA Championship

Louis Dobbelaar – file photo With just three more events on the 2022/2023 PGA Tour of Australasia schedule to be completed before the all-important Order of Merit is decided, every dollar or point counts in the race for the significant pathways and exemptions on offer for various milestones. This week’s New Zealand PGA Championship at […]

Brendan Smith turns back the clock at TPS Hunter Valley

Brendan Smith – Photo Australian Golf Media 33 year old NSW golfer, Brendan Smith, one of Australia’s best amateurs before turning professional a decade ago, turned back the clock to lead the TPS Hunter Valley at the halfway stage of the event at Cypress Lakes in the Hunter Valley. Smith, who these days works in […]

Jason Day eyes world number one again

Jason Day – encouraging signs for the former world number one – file photo PGA of America In a wide-ranging virtual interview with Australia’s golfing media today, Jason Day provided further evidence that the form he has shown in returning to the top 50 in the world on Monday was the start of a possible […]

LIV Golf begins second season in Mexico

New Zealander Danny Lee – latest LIV Golf signing – file photo The second season of LIV Golf begins this week in Mexico when the LIV Golf Mayakoba event gets underway at the El Camaleón Golf Course in Riviera Maya near Cancun. The El Camaleon was designed by Greg Norman so no real surprise the […]

Jason Day returns to world’s top 50

Jason Day in action this week – image courtesy of Getty Images Jason Day’s share of 9th place at this morning’s Genesis Invitational, his third top ten in his last three PGA Tour starts, has the former world number one now back inside the top 50 in the world ranking and on track for a […]

Lydia Ko wins big in second Saudi Ladies International victory

Lydia Ko – photo Ladies European Tour World number one Lydia Ko has consolidated and extended her lead in the Rolex World Ranking with a narrow one shot victory at the Aramco Saudi Ladies International in Saudi Arabia and in doing so secured her second largest cheque in the game (US$702,000). The figure is second […]

David Micheluzzi wins TPS Sydney to consolidate OOM lead

David Micheluzzi – image Australian Golf Media The young man who was already the Order of Merit leader on the PGA Tour of Australasia, David Micheluzzi, played his final ten holes of the TPS Sydney Presented by Webex event at Bonnie Doon in a massive nine under par to win his second PGA Tour of […]

Newly married Lydia Ko contending in Saudi Arabia

Lydia Ko – photo Ladies European Tour Perhaps ironically, the ladies don’t appear to be copping as much flack as the men by playing in Saudi Arabia this week, the US$5 million Aramco Saudi Ladies International Presented by Public Investment Fund, at the Royal Greens Golf and Country Club in the KAEC in Saudi now […]