Golf, by TourMiss

Mention Mull of Kintyre and first thoughts is the ex-Beatles Paul McCartney’s hit tune of the same name. The Mull of Kintyre is located on the southern tip of Kintyre peninsula, and the most southerly point of Home of Golf nation. The word ‘Mull’ is Gaelic and means a rounded hill, a summit, and a mountain that is bare of trees. There is certainly no trees on this mostly windswept, rocky and very steep location, and certainly no sandy beach where a full Scottish pipe band could ...

Sainte-Mere-Eglise is a lovely French village located around 12 kilometres straight inland from the famed D-Day beaches at Normandy. Some 80-years ago, Sainte-Mere-Eglise and its surroundings was a strategic area along the national road connecting Cherbourg to Paris, at a key road junction between five departmental roads. Early on the morning of June 6th, 1944 Saint-Mere-Eglise would become the first town in Europe to be liberated from more than four years of German occupation. Welcome to Saint-Mere-Eglise On ...

Scot David Drysdale will look to get into top gear heading to day two of the Asian Tour season-ending PIF Saudi Open in Riyadh. Drysdale, 48, bogeyed two of his closing three holes in a one-over 72 to be just inside the top-50 but trailing eight adrift of Thailand’s Chapchai Nirat, who signed for a seven-under 64 and lead by two shots. Super Swede while Henrik Stenson got to the par-4 18th having recorded nine one putts, including one-putting both the 16th and 17th holes for bogeys before sensationally ...

The late 1890s was a great time for the birth of golf on the Scotland island of Arran. Arran remarkably boasts six golf courses founded within 11 years of each other, and up to the dawn of the 20th century. They include – Lamlash (1889), the 9-hole Corrie (1892), Whiting Bay (1895), Shiskine (1896), Brodick (1897) and the 9-hole Machrie Bay (1900). Six years later in 1906 the six clubs got together to form the Arran Golfers Association. Our first introduction to golf in Arran was visiting The ...

Russell Knox has his own agenda this week, looking to secure one of the five leading spots up-for-grabs at Thursday’s starting 2023 PGA Tour Final Qualifier being staged on two courses close to his Ponte Vedra home in Florida. Around 150 miles north in suburban Orlando, Tiger Woods will team with son Charlie in the annual PNC Championship on the host Ritz Carlton course. It will be Woods second PGA Tour sanctioned appearance since last fortnight’s Hero World Challenge, and where Woods ...

Scot David Drysdale has shaken off a niggling neck injury, admitting he’s now proud and also excited ahead of confirmation of retaining his Asian Tour card at this week’s season-ending PIF Saudi Open in Riyadh. Drysdale, 48, tees-up lying a comfortable 43rd on the money list and with the leading 65 season money-earners exempt for their 2024 Tour card at the close of play this Sunday on the host Riyadh Club course in the Saudi capital. A recurring neck injury forced the golfer affectionately ...

A first visit to the isle of Arran. Yes, after many visits to Kintyre and the Outer Herbrides we are heading to Arran, an island off the west coast of Scotland. It is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde and the seventh-largest Scottish island, at 432 square kilometres (167 sq mi) and located just 90-minutes by ferry from the mainland at Ardrossan to Brodick. Though culturally and physically similar to the Hebrides, it is separated from them by the Kintyre peninsula and where we were headed after ...