Entries by Bruce Young

A happy Lydia Ko returns to world number one

Lydia Ko – a year of rewards for effort – photo LPGA Getty Images Lydia Ko’s return to the number one position in the female game following her win in the season ending LPGA Tour event, The CME Group Tour Championship, comes 5 years after her last time at the top of the Rolex Rankings. […]

Brendan Jones retains Japan Tour playing privileges

Brendan Jones – file photo Last week I made mention of the fact that Australian golfer, Brendan Jones, needed a good week at the final full field event of the year on the Japan Tour, the Casio World Open, in order to retain his playing privileges  in Japan for next season without the need to […]

Cameron Smith’s claims 3rd PGA title and fifth of 2022

Smith claims his third Australian PGA Championship – photo PGA of Australia Cameron Smith today won his third Australian PGA Championship, his fifth title of 2022 and although some would argue he should be the number two player in the world, in many eyes he is, so 2022 has been a breakthrough year in so […]

Cam Smith on track for third Australian PGA Championship

Cameron Smith – enjoying massive crowd support – photo PGA of Australia Cameron Smith heads into the final round of the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship in Brisbane with a three shot lead after his third round of 69 has him ahead of Japan’s Masahiro Kawamura and China’s Yan Wei Liu. Another shot further back are […]

Brendan Jones facing important weekend in Japan

Brendan Jones- photo Japan Golf Tour Australian golfer, Brendan Jones, faces an important weekend at the Casio World Open in Japan this week. Jones finds himself in a share of third place at the halfway stage but after a year which has seen the winner of 15 Japan Tour titles record a best of 17th […]

Cam Smith moves within one at Australian PGA Championship

Cameron Smith – photo PGA of Australia Jason Scrivener’s two shot lead on the field when he finished his morning round on day two of the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship was reduced to just one by a brilliant afternoon round of 65 by pre-tournament favourite, Cameron Smith, setting up the prospect of a dream weekend […]

Afternoon trio edge ahead at Australian PGA Championship

Min Woo Lee – one of three leaders at the completion of day one – photo PGA of Australia One of the features of the opening day of the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship was the consistency of conditions throughout the day. From the early starters who ventured out onto the Royal Queensland layout at 6.00m […]

Organisers dream gets Australian PGA Championship underway

Adam Scott acknowledges the large crowd at Royal Queensland this morning – photo PGA of Australia The tournament promoters at the Australian PGA Championship could not have scripted a better start to the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship any better. The two star attractions in the event, locals Adam Scott and Cameron Smith, completed their morning […]