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 ...

Nine-hole golf courses.  Some will argue they’re only half the fun as it’s all about testing your game over the full 18. True but some of the best experiences I’ve had in golf have been teeing-up on nine-hole layouts.  I learnt how to play the game on a 9-holer in Sydney, and in all my years reporting on this ancient club-and-ball game, I’ve had the pleasure of playing some memorable nine holes. Though the first nine holes, I wish to feature is not one I’ve played and ...

  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 ...

  It’s a remarkable story, the likes I have not come across in a long golf writing career. The story of the Scottish golf club of Fortrose and Rosemarkie a decade ago in 2013 celebrated its 125th anniversary but then only to discover just three years later, a club had been in place 95-years earlier in 1793. Now seven years on from a 125th anniversary in 2016 and this year, 2023 marks the 230th anniversary of Fortrose and Rosemarkie and a good occasion to share with you the remarkable ...

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 ...