Golf, by TourMiss

Justin Rose could not have put in more bluntly declaring: “Jon’s a huge coup for LIV, a big blow for the PGA Tour”. Rose was speaking amid almost certain assurance late afternoon US Eastern time that double major winning Jon Rahm has officially signed with LIV Golf. There has been rumours for months the super Spaniard would be leaving to join good friend and fellow Masters winner Sergio Garcia at LIV, and the news is all but official. The deal is believed to be worth around $560m ...

I guess it comes as a surprise that a professional golfer at the ‘young’ age of 33-years, and has competed at the game’s highest level, should announce his retirement. This is the news appearing in the leading French newspaper L’Equipe with the 33-year-old Victor Dubuisson indicating he is stepping down from formal competition. It can’t be because Dubuisson may be akin to Tiger Woods and fighting what could also be a career-threatening injury. No, the French newspaper ...

Scotland’s Grant Forrest was jetting back from sunny ‘Down Under’ Australia to wintery Scotland delighted with his effort in the last round of the year, and a best career pre-Christmas start to a new DP World Tour wraparound season. Forrest, 30, jetted out of closeby Sydney Airport with a closing 68 to secure a three-way share of fourth at the Australian Open on the host Australian Club course. The Craigielaw golfer grabbed three birdies to be tied with Aussie Adam Scott and England’s ...

There’s no getting away from on-going rumours that double major winning Jon Rahm is going to sign with LIV Golf. Reports say Rahm is expected to reach a whopping $600m deal with LIV that also will include a $300 million signing bonus while the champion Spaniard would have team equity and be named one of the LIV team captains. Of course, it’s a golfing understatement to say that Rahm’s signing with LIV would be one of biggest coups, and also biggest shocks, if he accepts the record ...

The Asian Tour’s 2023 season will come full circle next month when it holds its 25th and final event of the year in Saudi Arabia. More than 10 months after starting the season in the desert kingdom, and venturing to 18 different nations, the Asian Tour will proudly return to Saudi for the hosting of Saudi Open in Riyadh. The top-80 players will tee-up and with the leading money-list 65 retaining full status for next year Those that do keep their cards will be back at the same venue little more ...

Scotland’s David Drysdale is confident of teeing-up in next fortnight’s final event of his rookie Asian Tour season. Drysdale, 48, was forced to withdraw from Thursday’s opening round of the Tawian Glass Taifong Open due to a reoccurrence of an old neck injury. The Callaway-attached Drysdale battled through 15 holes in the penultimate event of the year before withdrawing from the host Taifong club. “I was gutted to have to retire and it was an old niggling neck injury”, ...

You can’t blame Robert MacIntyre frankness and not hiding his feelings in twice using the ‘pile of poo’ emoji on his ‘X’ account after his ‘Down Under’ quest to at least secure a Masters invitation nose-dive as he missed the cut in the ISPS Handa Australian Open in Sydney. MacIntyre posted rounds of 70 and a horror second day 77, that included just one birdie but also five bogeys and a double-bogey in his four-over tally to end his year six shots shy of playing all four ...