Golf, by TourMiss

If you are looking for a teaching professional the epitome of all that is good with Irish golf, then look no further than Damien Scott. Scott is now into his second year as Head Teaching Professional at the Al Hamra GC in the UAE emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. If Al Hamra sounds familiar, it should as it just recently again proudly hosted the DP World Tour and for a third occasion in 12 months, on a stunning golf located just over an hour’s drive north of Dubai. It was the late stage of 2021 when ...

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 ...

…… Yas Links, Abu Dhabi  The Tartan trio of Marc Warren, Richie Ramsay and Scott Jamieson head into 2023 boasting a combined 50-year of competition on the DP World Tour. Warren joined the Tour in 2002 playing a handful of events and now at the start of a 21st season the 41-year-old Scot, and four-time Tour winner, is teeing-up this week at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship contesting a 466th event. Ramsay is two years younger than Warren and is also a four-time DP World winner, capturing ...

It is surprising in checking that it’s been over two years since Tommy Fleetwood last toasted a victory success An eighth career victory was, in fact, a play-off win at the 2019 Nedbank Challenge in South Africa, and after he remarkably posted three eagles of his last day at Sun City. It was a wind that lifted Fleetwood to 10th on the World Rankings but this week he arrived as No. 47 in the world. Now, and heading to the final round, the 31-year-old is in contention for victory at the Saudi ...

Here’s an adventure for the golfer’s out there who enjoy discovering new heights. Now that restrictions to travel are being lifted, why not treat a flight yourself to double French alpine flying and golfing adventure? This is what we did recently thanks to Alpine Flying School – https://alpineflyingschool.fr  and the Gay Bayard Golf Club – http://www.gap-bayard.com/golf-de-gap-bayard The Alpine Flying School and Gap Bayard have their homes high in the stunning French Alps ...

The 21st anniversary of my historic first golf shot of 2000 on a golf course has been located.  No sooner had I posted a reminder of my efforts 21-years ago and I went ‘surfing’ on the web and found my story. The following 427-word article appeared in the Tuesday, 5th January, 2000 edition of the Daily Record. Here is the link to the article and hereunder is the story. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Golf%3a+Record+writer+hits+the+first+golf+shot+of+2000%3b+BERNIE+IN…-a060846340 BERNIE ...

Twenty-one years ago today, and in the spirit of a new Millennium, I hit the first golf shot on a golf course of this millenium at midnight on the 1st January, 2000 on the tiny Pacific Ocean island of Tonga. I flew from Sydney via Auckland to the Tongan capital of Nuku ‘alofa. Tonga encompasses around 170 islands of which 36 are inhabited while some 70% of the now 100,000 total population of the islands live on the main island. So why go to Tonga to golf? Tonga is located two-thirds of the way ...