Golf, by TourMiss

The prestigious Alfred Dunhill Links has been washed-out for a second day running as persistant rain continues to drench much of Scotland. It has been raining steady since early evening on Friday and now nearly 40 hours later there is no sign in a let-up of the wet weather leading not only to flooding on the three host courses but with local flooding of roadways, railway lines, farms and property. Disappointingly it is a second day of no play in this year’s $US 5m event being played over the ...

It’s time Tiger Woods stepped-up to accept the 2025 USA Ryder Cup captaincy. That’s the view of fellow American and good friend Billy Horschel in adding to a growing chorus that Woods would be the ideal candidate for the captaincy of the American side in two years time at Bethpage Park at Farmingdale on New York’s Long Island. Woods may have a poor Ryder Cup record in terms of Ryder Cup appearances, playing in just one winning Stars and Stripes team and that being in 1999 at ...

Victorious European Ryder Cup hero Tommy Fleetwood was not only disappointed with his day’s play but revealed he had to retire his victoirous Rome winning driver after cracking its face during the second round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. It was Fleetwood who holed the winning putt that sealed Europe’s eventual five-point vicvtory on the host Marco Simone course. However the proud Englishman was sounding a little disheartned following his second round one-over par 73 for ...

Padraig Harrington is on the committee to select the next European Ryder Cup captain and in singing the praise of victorious Rome captain Luke Donald he’s strongly backing Donald to stay on for 2025. Harrington was not in Rome instead, and somewhat disappointingly, Europe’s immediate past captain spent the weekend at home, glued to the couch watching TV coverage of Europe’s successful Roman conquest. “I was thrilled with the result last week .. Oh yes”, he said. “I was at home watching ...

American and LIV golfer Peter Uihlein shared the lead on day one of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and revealing how it came about the head of the Saudi-based PIF fund Yasir Al-Rumayyan and also head of LIV Golf  is his amateur partner for the week in Scotland. Uihlein signed for a sizzling eight-under 64 in cold and sometimes rainy conditions on the famed Old Course at St. Andrews, and end the opening day sharing the lead with Swede Sebastian Soderberg, who was out earlier on the Old Course ...

It’s been just over a month since Mark Power last teed-up on the famed Old Course and that being the disppointment of losing the 2023 GB & I Walker Cup to the visiting Americans. However, it definitlely not Power’s mood with the Irishman buoyed returning to the Auld Grey Toon now as a rookie professional competing on the DP World Tour. The 23-year-old Kilenny golfer, and despite a penultimate hole bogey, had signed for a two-under-par 70 on the opening day of the $US 5m Alfred Dunhill Links ...

David Drysdale continues to ride a wave of good form birdieing three of his closing six holes in a three-under 69 after day one of the Asian Tour’s International Singapore event. The lone Scot in the $US 2m event over an early round bogey to birdie his ninth, 12th, 14th and final holes in the sauna-like conditions on the Tanah Merah host course. The Borders golfer who arrived into the island nation having secured a rookie Tour best of a T3rd last week in Taiwan while he has strong memories of ...