Golf, by TourMiss

Rory McIlroy returns to competition this week in Dubai and where he ended his 2023 campaign around three weeks ago at the DP World Tour Championship. This week is a new tournament for the DP World Tour with the hosting of the Dubai Invitational, and being played on the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club that last hosted a DP Tour event with the 2000 Dubai Desert Classic. It will also be a first tournament for the World No. 2 ahead of a 17th full season on the Tour since securing his Tour card late in ...

Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre has arrived in Hawaii for a third time in his career but with this latest visit the start of the most important chapter in his short pro golfing career. MacIntyre is among five PGA Tour rookies, and in a first, to have secured 2024 season membership in finishing top-10, and not already exempt, on last year’s DP World Tour money list to be teeing up in this week’s $US 8.3m Sony Open in Honolulu. For MacIntyre, it will be the first of three PGA Tour events in ...

After 27-years Nike and Tiger Woods have brought to an end one of the most famous commercial partnerships in sport. Woods announced the news on Monday in a statement posted to ‘X’ social media account and thus confirming recent rumours he was parting with the clothing and footwear giant. And in splitting with Nike, Woods indicated in his message:  ‘Yes, there will certainly be another chapter’, no doubt in reference who he will sign a new clothing deal with. Woods signed ...

I’ve said this before but a great aspect in driving between PGA Tour events is being able to travel at your own pace. If driving and you’re in a hurry, then there’s the Interstates.  In contrast, if you’re not in a hurry it’s a mixture of the Interstates and also the ‘back roads’. The back roads, as I like to call them, are the state roads that lead to all sorts of meetings and adventures, and if you have the golf clubs like I would also be assured to pack, ...

South Koren Im Sung-jae reinforced his reputation as a birdie machine by setting a new PGA Tour record in making the most birdies in a 72-hole tournament en route to a career third top-10 in four outings at The Sentry on Sunday. On a final day where Chris Kirk claimed a thrilling one-stroke victory over Sahith Theegala in the season-opening event of 2024 and compatriot An Byeong-hun posting a solo fourth in his debut at The Plantation course at Kapalua, Im ensured memorable week himself by registering ...

It has been 13 long years since the Persian Gulf island kingdom of Bahrain has featured on the annual DP World Tour schedule. That was in 2011 with the hosting of the inaugural Volvo Champions won by England’s Paul Casey over a then three-year old Colin Montgomerie redesigned course located some 20 kilometres south of the capital Manmar. GolfByTourMiss recently rekindled memories of that first event and you can read our feature article by clicking on:  http://www.golfbytourmiss.com/2024/01/bahrains-royal-club-rewarding-golf-in-this-oil-rich-nation/ In ...

Updated January, 2025 … Have you ever played a golf course where you are afforded a ‘free’ drop from oil pipelines? This is one of ‘local rules’ when tackling the Royal Golf Club course in Bahrain and host venue for this week’s Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship taking place on the Colin Montgomerie designed Royal Golf Club course close to the capital Manama. In fact, the official scorecard (see below) lists the rule saying under Rule 16.1 of the Official Rules ...