Golf, by TourMiss

I have spoken often of the great pleasure in travelling the world reporting on the ancient club-and-ball game and also equally teeing-up in so many different countries. This includes also teeing-up along the shoreline of the world’s oceans and seas and to then have the good fortune to enjoy a round on the opposite shoreline of the same ocean or sea. An example of what I am referring is Australia’s Crescent Head Golf Club course and recently featured on this website (See: http://www.golfbytourmiss.com/2024/12/crescent-head-country-club-a-stunning-6-hole-gem-overlooking-the-mighty-blue-pacific/ ...

It’s timely in writing this golf course feature (late December 2024) as it is less than two weeks shy of the 25th anniversary of my historic ‘First Person To Hit a Golf Shot on a Golf Course In 2000‘ and also just a month away from 25-years when I played my first game of golf in South Africa. My visits to the Rainbow Nation sadly have been just a few and each to be present at DP World Tour tournament venues in Joburg and Durban. A maiden visit was to Joburg in the second week of ...

One of the great delights of living or visiting Sydney is the dozen and dozens of pristine beaches to the north and south of Australia’s largest city. So, when it comes to golden sand beaches located right on your front doorstep then Sydney has to be the envy of the world as there is close to 100 Pacific Ocean coastline beaches in a 100-kilometre stretch from Palm Beach in the north of the city to Garie Beach in the south. Indeed the entire coastline of the state of New South Wales (NSW) boasts ...

The hosting each year of the Link Hong Kong Open rekindles so many fond memoies. I made my debut at the tournament in 2003 and the then third year of a joint Asian Tour and European Tour tournament that was first staged in 1959. The timing each year of the Hong Kong Open was ideal for this golf journalist as it was late in the European Tour season and in those earlier career visits, it would break the long journey down to Australia for the Festive Season. Selfishly, I also could not have asked for ...

It is remarkable that 25 years have now passed – October 25th, 1999 – when Payne Stewart and five others tragically lost their lives. There is sadness in everyone’s life losing a loved-one or a close friend but when it comes to losing those with whom you have met in the course of your work and also with whom you had estabished a warm rapport and friendship then it kind of makes it all a little different. Akin to losing a member of your family. That’s what I have always said ...

Rory McIlroy admits he ‘can be helpful to the process’ if voted back onto the PGA Tour’s Policy Advisory Board (PAB). As reported by GolfByTourMiss McIlroy was approached by Webb Simpson that he was stepping down from the PAB and that he has asked McIlroy if he would take his place on the board that represents the PGA Tour rank-and-file in all matters dealing with the running of the PGA Tour. The news came as a surprise given McIlroy’s decision late last year is his dramatic ...

It’s amazing how the power of the pen and in this ‘feel good’ story a signature on a petition has helped in save a Scottish golf club from closure. Masters champ and LIV Golf star Sergio Garcia penned his signature that eventually helped save Dalmuir Municipal Golf Course, an 18 hole municipal golf course, near Clydebank to the west of Glasgow It is  the only course currently open to the public in the area, and was at risk of being reduced from 18 holes to 12 or being closing down ...