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Argentario Launches Tuscan Golf Getaway to Celebrate Staging the Italian Open 2025 Porto Ercole, Italy; February 2025 – The Argentario Golf & Wellness Resort, Autograph Collection in southern Tuscany has launched a golf getaway to celebrate its staging this June of the Italian Open on the DP World Tour when the resort will host some of golf’s finest professionals. The package offers golfers the chance to experience the challenge of the championship course at the Argentario Golf Club, the ...

The AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am was known firstly as the Bing Crosby Amateur, or just the Crosby Clambake however after Crosby’s death in 1977, the tournament was hosted by his family for eight years. The Crosby name was dropped after the 1985 event, and AT&T became the title sponsor in 1986. It makes AT&T the longest running continuous title sponsor on the PGA Tour (since 1986) and is this year is celebrating its 40th year as title sponsor of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Okay, ...

Scott Jamieson saved the best for last to secure a second top-10 finish of the new season at the Ras Al Khaimah Championship in the UAE. Jamieson, 41, produced a closing bogey-free 67 to share eighth place at 11-under in ideal scoring conditions on the host Al Hamra course, just over an hour’s drive north of Dubai. Spain’s Alejandro Del Rey stormed to a maiden Tour victory, posting rounds of 68 and three 66s to win by six shots at 22-under-par. The 27-year-old Madrid golfer grabbed 26 birdies ...

With over 80 golf courses and sunshine practically all year, Portgual has always been a mecca for golfers boasting as it does five strong golf regions – the famed Algarve, Lisbon, Porto, the Azores and Maderia. It’s the Algarve that is most widely known boasting 10 seperate golfing destinations including Villamoura where you’ll find such courses as the Victoria that played host to the Portugal Masters and others including the Old Course, Pinhall and Millennium courses. And while ...

Those who like their Scottish golf may know how partial I am to the Askernish course located along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides. If I have done my job well then you may be planning to visit this Old Tom Morris designed links gem and, if so, you may wish to make the small effort visiting a little-known nine-hole course around a 35-minute drive north named Benbecular. Benbecular is around both a 12-kilometre long and also similar width wide island located ...

There is three golf courses I’ve played that boast bunkers of a ‘different’ kind. When I say of a ‘different’ kind I am referring to concrete bunkers.  I hear you say: “Concrete bunkers?”.  Yes, concrete bunkers and defence bunkers built during World War 11. There is an anti-aircraft bunker still in position at the back of the seventh green on the Craighead Links course at my home club in Crail, Scotland.  The bunker at Crail faces the North Sea is among ...

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/ ...