Golf, by TourMiss

When it comes to accusations of cheating don’t dare get in the way of Greg Norman. I was Akron, Ohio reporting on the 1995 NEC World Series of Golf when the Australian accused Mark McCumber of cheating and now 24-years on, the double-major winner has sounded off at Patrick Reed after the Texan was accused of cheating during last fortnight’s Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Norman was being interviewed on his American radio show Attack Life when asked about Reed’s actions on day ...

Shane Lowry’s historic win in The 148th Open Championship at Royal Portrush has earned the 32-year-old Offalyman the Professional Player of the Year for 2019 at the Irish Golf Writers’ Association awards, sponsored by Allianz, at Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links, Co Dublin. In a quite extraordinary year for Irish professional golfers, with Rory McIlroy scooping the FedEx Cup title on the PGA Tour – in a season with four victories – and Leona Maguire impressively claiming a full LPGA Tour ...

The MENA Tour by Arena and the Alps Tour have announced an exciting new reciprocal playing opportunity for members of both Tours. Starting the 2020 season, the Tours have reached an agreement under which they will give leading five players from the other tour eligibility to play the full season. The top five available players from the 2019 Final Order of Merit from the Alps Tour (up to top-10 and not otherwise exempt) will thus be able to play the 2020 season of the MENA Tour by Arena, while ...

USA Presidents Cup playing captain, Tiger Woods had no sooner stepped off a near 25-hour flight to Australia to find himself dragged into the controversy surrounding embattled team member, Patrick Reed. Woods and all but one member of his red-hot 12-man side arrived into Melbourne Monday morning local time on a charter jet from the Bahamas where they had been contesting the Hero World Challenge. Woods, and a first playing captain of either a Presidents Cup or Ryder Cup since 1994, confessed he is ...

…… Sydney, Australia  Matt Jones is celebrating after capturing a second Australian Open victory after posting a final round 69 to win by a shot at 15-under par on the Australian Club course in Sydney. Jones, 39 went into the final round enjoying a three-stroke leading cushion at 13-under par but needed to hole a testing four-feet par on the 72nd green after South African Louis Oosthuizen brought the crowd around the last hole to their feet in holing a monster putt for an eagle ‘3’. The ...

… Albany, Bahamas  Patrick Reed will arrive in Australia Monday morning local time in readiness for Thursday’s start to the Presidents Cup and hoping there is no backlash following a controversial incident during the third round here at the Hero World Challenge. The 2017 Masters champion was slapped with a two-shot penalty when video evidence surfaced he had brushed back the sand behind his ball in taking a shot from a ‘waste’ bunker on the Albany course in The Bahamas. You ...

….. Albany, Bahamas  Jon Rahm will tie the wedding knot later this week when he marries long-time girlfriend and American-born, Kelley Cahill. Rahm, 25 ended what he ranked a 9 out of 10 season in finishing a gallant runner-up earlier today here at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. The Spaniard looked all set to become the first repeat winner since host Tiger Woods won back-to-back in 2006 and 2007 at the former host venue of Sherwood Country Club, and with the wins being Woods third ...