Entries by Bruce Young

Another impressive week for New Zealand golfers

Ryan Fox – reaches an all time high in DP World Tour and World rankings – photo Getty Images For the second week in succession New Zealand golfers have performed with distinction on their respective professional tours. Last week, Daniel Hillier won his second event on the European Challenge Tour and Steve Alker finished in […]

Daniel Hillier leads again in France

Daniel Hillier – photo Getty Images New Zealand’s Daniel Hillier has set about consolidating the standing his victory in last week’s European Challenge Tour event has given him on the Road to Mallorca Order of Merit, taking a share of the lead at the halfway mark of Hopps Open de Provence in Mallemort in France. […]

Steve Alker extends Charles Schwab Cup lead

Steve Alker – file photo courtesy of USGA Amidst the significant interest generated in world golf by the Presidents Cup battle in North Carolina, New Zealand’s Steve Alker continued his amazing run on the PGA Tour Champions with a share of the runner-up position at the Pure Insurance Championship at Pebble Beach. Alker finished one […]

New Zealand’s Daniel Hillier closes in on DP World Tour card

Daniel Hillier – photo Getty Images New Zealand golf now appears likely to have another representative playing the DP World Tour in 2023 following the success of Wellingtonian, Daniel Hillier, in a Challenge Tour event in Europe this weekend. Hillier produced a stunning final round of 64 to win the Swiss Challenge at  Golf Saint […]

Internationals’ dogged fightback offers hope

Tom Kim celebrates his winning putt on the 18th. photo Getty Images Saturday 24th of September 2022 may yet prove to be one of the more significant moments in the history of the Presidents Cup as the heavily outgunned International team fought their way back from a 8 to 2 deficit to win Saturday’s encounters […]

Adam Scott not without hope in Charlotte

Embed from Getty Images Trevor Immelman and Adam Scott – mature heads to assist an inexperienced but talented International team. Adam Scott will play his 10th Presidents Cup when the event gets underway on Thursday 22nd and while he is the 5th highest world ranked player in the International team, his longevity of success and […]

Internationals heavily outweighed ahead of Presidents Cup

Cameron Davis and Adam Scott enjoying their practice round together – photo Getty Images Despite the absence of many of the game’s best players there is a familiar ring to the likely outcome of this week’ 2022 Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte in North Carolina. Once again, the Americans heavily outweigh the […]

Cameron Smith proves a point in Chicago

Cameron Smith holes the winning putt to win by three – photo LIV Golf Getty Images Cameron Smith, in just his second appearance in the LIV Golf series, has defeated has defeated Peter Uilhein and Dustin Johnson by three shots to earn the US$4 million winner’s cheque at the event at Rich Harvest Farms outside […]