Golf, by TourMiss

Rory McIlroy will end a three-year absence to contest next fortnight’s final edition of the WGC – Dell Match-Play in Austin, Texas. GolfByTourMiss has also learned it will be McIlroy’s only event from now and ahead of the April 6th starting Masters. McIlroy’s return to the Lone Star State will be formally confirmed this morning (Monday) for the $US 20m event featuring the world’s top-ranked 64 in the world, again teeing-up on the host Austin Country Club course. This ...

Ireland’s top-three golfers will be formally confirmed tomorrow (Monday) for next fortnight’s final hosting of the WGC – Dell Match-Play at Austin, Texas but the question is whether McIlroy will contest this final hosting of the event for a first time since 2019. The leading 64 on the World Rankings ​will qualify ​​​to tee-up in the $20m event starting March 22nd in the Lone Star State capital​ though history shows that not all those inside the 64 compete.​ This year ...

LIV Golf is committed to making a positive impact on and off the course. In its first official season, the league has begun carrying out that mission on a global scale. LIV Golf has announced a three-year community impact partnership with Fútbol Más to establish programming that promotes youth development and wellbeing through sports. The partnership is aligned with LIV Golf’s impact and sustainability initiatives that positively affect young lives and communities around the world including ...

Seamus Power revealed after missing the halfway cut at the Players Championship, he’ll spend Monday playing a practice round at Augusta National. It will be only a second time, and since his second event last October, just after the start of the 2022/23 wraparound season that the affable Irishman will sit out the weekend rounds in a Tour event and this week being his 12th start and this after posting scores of 74 and 76 for a six-over tally on the host TPC Sawgrass course. Included in Power’s ...

Rory McIlroy produced his worst PGA Tour round in 53 weeks and a highest Players Championship score in two years with a horror 76 on the opening day of this year’s event. McIlroy’s 13th appearance at the Tour’s flagship event began horribly in taking a double-bogey ‘6’ after a wild drive down the right side of the 10th hole and ended with a bogey ‘5’ at the ninth and the closing hole of his round, and in between he managed just two birdies and three other bogeys. His score of 76 was ...

It’s always been the scenario when Jack speaks, the golf world sits up to take notice. I mentioned this last week on this website’s coverage of the Honda Classic that Nicklaus will always visit the tournament media centre for a chat with the media, and with no goal posts set in place as to what is discussed. Well, we know Nicklaus has been speaking to fellow Masters champion Nick Faldo, and with the ‘it’s always about me’ Faldo reinventing himself as a podcast host after the teary-eyed ...

….. Dubai Tennis Centre It must be a first in tennis, and maybe a first in sport. If so, the sight of tennis World No. 1 Novak Djokovic complaining to the match referee that there was too much bar-b-que smoke lingering over of the Dubai Tennis Championship centre court has to be a first. Firstly, the centre for world tennis in Dubai is located within the famed Irish Village and close to the ‘older’ part of Dubai. The Irish Village is noted for it’s restaurants and Irish-theme ...