Golf, by TourMiss

The USA Ryder Cup side have been visiting the Marco Simone course and venue later this month for the hosting of the 44th biennial competiton between Europe and the USA. All but three members – Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth and Xander Schauffele – travelled to Rome to inspect the host course just north of the Italian capital. Spieth chose to remain home as his wife is expecting the ple’s second child and along with Schauffele and Cantlay who also had family matters that took ...

  Home favourite Rory McIlroy made the most of golf’s ‘moving day’ producing an equal best of the round 66 as he seeks not only a second Irish Open title but a third DP World Tour triumph this season. The World No. 2  snatched seven birdies, including at the last two holes, and with his only bogey at the par-5 where he found water with his second shot, and this a day after eagling the hole when he spun his second shot back into the cup McIlroy is in third place at 11-under. Germany’s ...

Immediate past captain Padraig Harrington has handed Robert MacIntyre a glowing confidence lift just weeks away from the Ryder Cup in Rome. MacIntyre, along with England’s Tommy Fleetwood, earned the final two automatic qualifying spots into Luke Donald’s European side and with MacIntyre a first Scot since Stevie Gallacher in 2014 to be pulling on the European team colours. Harrington, and a playing veteran of six European Teams, led Europe two years into battle along the shores of Lake Michigan ...

If Rory McIlroy’s revelation is correct golf’s oldest major could be heading to the Republic of Ireland for a first time in history. Portmarnock is located right on the front doorstep of Dublin and has been the venue for many R & A sponsored championships including the Walker Cup in 1991 and more-recently the Amateur Championship in 2021. Portmarnock played host in 1923 to the inaugural Irish Open and is set to host the championship, taking place this week at the K. Club, next year ...

There’s many who share Adrian Mernonk’s ‘shock, sadness and anger’ in being overlooked for the European Ryder Cup team. Meronk looked almost certain to earn a Luke Donald ‘wildcard’ pick had Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg not sensationally muscled his way to victory in last week’s Omega European Masters in Switzerland. The 23-year-0ld Aberg clearly forced Donald into selecting him and become the quickest player in European Ryder Cup history to earn a European ...

Earlier this year the DP World Tour debuted the Hero Cup featuring a 10-man GB & I team going up against a similar number of Europe players competing over three days in Abu Dhabi. The Hero Cup was a mirror of the long-running Seve Trophy that brought European Tour players together in a Ryder Cup like atomsphere and help prepare them for possible Ryder Cup-like competition should they qualify or be picked to represent Europe in a Ryder Cup. Of the 20 players who teed-up January in the UAE capital ...

Two years ago Padraig Harrington led a European Ryder Cup side that faced the might of a red-hot USA team along with shores of Lake Michigan. Now with just a few weeks to the hosting of the 2023 Ryder Cup it could be Luke Donald’s Europeans who become the victorious Roman golfing gladiators. That’s the view of Harington as now Donald attempts to continue Europe’s unbeaten Ryder Cup 26-year long home record in not having lost a Ryder Cup on home soil since 1997. “I think we’re ...