Golf, by TourMiss

Tiger Woods ended a near eight-month competition absence showing a few signs of brilliance but overall, and as he later mentioned, there was also plenty of rust in his game on day one of the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Woods walked from the host Albany course after posting three birdies, five bogeys and a 15th hole double-bogey in his round of a three-over 75 to have him lying 18th in the elite $4.5m field of 20. It left him trailing eight shots behind the leading duo of Tony Finau and ...

With just a month to a promised agreement in golf’s ‘potential alliance’ and reports grow that golf will head into the New Year with Jay Monahan standing down from his role as PGA Tour Commissioner. Monahan, 53, has been under attack from both sides in the countdown to December 31st when the golf world hopefully will learn of the nature of how the broken bridges in the men’s professional game will be mended. If that should take place, as all golf followers want to see, there’s more than ...

Golfers are being given the unique opportunity to take a step back in time to play the famous Old Course in reverse, with a new series of events introduced by St Andrews Links Trust. Old Course Reversed has been unveiled by the Trust to commemorate 50 years of the organisation being custodians of the world’s most renowned golfing landscape and is set to become an annual event to give golfers a glimpse of the Old Course’s storied past. From the 1400s the Old Course emerged and evolved from the ...

Scotland’s Connor Syme wasted little time igniting a ‘Down Under’ rare of topping his Australian Amateur win with victory in this week’s ISPS Handa Australian Open in Sydney. Syme, 28, grabbed eight birdies in a sizzling seven-under 64 in wet and overcast conditions to muscle his way to a share of third on the par-71 Lakes course, and one of two courses hosting joint men’s and women’s top Aussie titles. Sydney-sider Cameron Davis, and winner of the event in 2017 at The Australian ...

Double European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald, while saying it would be ‘great’ if Tiger Woods is appointed rival 2025 US Captain, believes the ‘culture’ created under his leadership in Rome will put his European Team in good stead heading to Bethpage Park. Donald, 45, revealed a decision to remain after leading Europe to a 16½ – 11½ victory against the United States at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Rome. He becomes Europe’s first repeat Captain since Bernard ...

For those visiting Bethpage Park (Black) course there is a warning sign on the first tee advising it is an ‘extremely difficult’ golf course. That’s not the only thing that is extremely difficult as newly-appointed double European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald and many of his team heading to New York in late 2025 are already aware. There have been two recent major championships hosted at Bethpage Park (Black) – 2009 US Open and 2019 PGA Championship – and among a few ...

Luke Donald has elected to remain as European Ryder Cup captain by agreeing to lead his side into competition at the 44th hosting of the competition in 2025 at Bethpage Park in New York. There were loud calls of ‘two more years, two more years, from his dozen Rome winning golfing gladiators soon after Europe’s comfortable five-point victory over the visiting Americans. And now, after discussions between his family, fellow players and the European Tour, Donald has agreed to stay on. It ...