Golf, by TourMiss

There are many golf courses around the world where you can tee-up where major champions, including 15-time winning Tiger Woods, have walked the fairways. Though there’s not too many nine-hole layouts in the golf world that can boast a golfer of Woods great stance in the history of the club-and-ball game has teed-up not just once, not twice but three times. It must say something of the JA The Resort Golf Course at Jebel Ali that Woods chose to play this magnificent nine-hole course in Dubai ...

  Players at this week’s Genesis Invitational will again find their way up just over 50 steep steps at the back of the 18th green to the ladies locker room within the stunning clubhouse at Riviera Country Club in suburban Santa Monica. Yes, the ladies locker room! The expansive Riviera ladies locker room is at the top of the staircase and given it’s close proximity to the back of the 18th and the close-by 1st tee, it’s used as a temporary scorer’s room for the annual ...

Benbecula is an island of the Outer Hebrides in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Scotland. It’s joined by a causeway to North Uist to the north and South Uist to the south. The island is about 12 kilometres (7 miles) from west to east and a similar distance from north to south. Benbecula’s main settlement and administrative centre is Balivanich (Scottish Gaelic: Baile a’ Mhanaich, meaning “Town of the Monk”). In 1746, Bonnie Prince Charlie was caught in ...

A twenty-four year pilot is being hailed a hero in landing his stricken two-seater light aircraft on a golf course in the south of France. The Safari Flying owned plane with Registration No. F- JDPG, lost power and with the fast-thinking pilot landing on the fifth fairway of the Sainte Maxime Golf Club on the French Riviera.  Safari Flying is located at nearby Frejus. On board the plane was two people, the pilot and his grandmother, who the pilot was taking for a joy flight. The young pilot managed ...

For most, it’s a welcome relief travelling the 130 odd miles southeast from the stress of the Masters in Augusta, Georgia to Hilton Head in South Carolina for this week’s more relaxed RBC Heritage. The most direct driving route is along South Carolina highway SC 125 and then turn right onto SC 321 before emerging south onto the I-95, and a short time later taking the turn-off to Hilton Head. Driving the two South Carolina roads is kind of like a time warp. You drive through very sleepy ...

As many visitors to GolfByTourMiss may know, one of my favourite golfing destinations is Askernish Golf Club. Askernish was designed by Old Tom Morris and opened for play on Saturday, 29th September 1891, with a foursome comprising a Mr Paterson and Mr William McLean against Mr Kenneth McLeod and Mr David Jerrow. At the time of opening, it was described as ‘probably the most natural Golf course in the United Kingdom’. Golf was played at Askernish till around the early 1920s and from there ...

…  Fatiha Betscher Rory McIlroy is certainly no fan of Greg Norman and The Shark’s Saudi connection, but there’s no question that McIlroy does find favour in playing Greg Norman-designed golf courses. Two of McIlroy’s biggest wins on the now named DP World Tour have come on the Earth Course at the Jumeirah Estates in Dubai, and that should have been three if not for the shirt-ripping exercise that followed his implosion last November up the last in Dubai. A strong feature, as most TV ...