Golf, by TourMiss

Shane Lowry can really play it cool this week entering the bar of the PGA Tour’s ‘Last Chance Saloon’ at the Wyndham Championship in South Carolina. The Wyndham Championship is once again the final event of the ‘regular’ 2021/22 PGA Tour season and being staged for a 14th straight year at the Sedgefield Country Club course in suburban Greensboro, North Carolina. The event is famous for its margaritas and the sounds of Jimmy Buffett throughout the spectator village and with fans of Buffett ...

“See you in Rome!” was Luke Donald’s defiant response to any suggestions he may face the same fate as Henrik Stenson should the Englishman be a second straight European Team captain to break his Rome contract. Donald fended-off such a question at a Zoom conference he and Ryder Cup Director, Guy Kinnings hosted just hours after being officially confirmed as the new 2023 European captain. “Well, I have signed a contract, and I intend to see that through”, Donald said in response to a London-based ...

The PGA Tour released its schedule for the 2022-23 season and the last wrap-around format before reverting in 2024 to  a straight January to December schedule. The 2022-23 slate features 44 tournaments, in eight different countries, and with the season opener once again in Napa, California and boasting the FedEx Cup Playoffs finale again in Atlanta, the four majors and a Presidents Cup in just a few weeks. The Fortinet Championship kicks things off Sept. 15-18 with the Presidents Cup the very next ...

Luke Donald has been formally confirmed as the replacement European Team Captain for next year’s 44th hosting of the Ryder Cup in Rome. Donald, as GolfByTourMiss had predicted some weeks ago, will now take the place of Sweden’s Henrik Stenson who was unceremoniously stripped earlier last month of the 2023 European Team captaincy after breaking his DP World Tour contract to join the LIV Golf Tour. However In a bizarre twist, Stenson no doubt used the sacking to help inspire him to victory in ...

American Sean Crocker led from start-to-finish to celebrate capturing a maiden pro career title with his one-shot victory at the Hero Open near St. Andrews. Crocker, who turns 29 in exactly a month, posted a gutsy final round four-under-par 68 and hold on by a shot to win with a 22-under victory tally on the Torrance Course at the Fairmont Resort. The win for Crocker comes also in his 107th DP World Tour event and is his very first taste of success in the pro ranks for the golfer, who grew-up in ...

American Sean Crocker admits he would love ‘something shiny’ as he remains on target capture not only a maiden DP World Tour win at the Hero Open but a first pro career success at the Fairmont Resort on the outskirts of St. Andrews. Crocker, and a month shy of his 26th birthday, has enjoyed three second-place results in his prior 106 DP World Tour starts, and now takes a two-shot lead into day four of the Euro 1.75m event The Zimbabwe-born Crocker, who used to play Test cricket before ...

Benbecula is an island of the Outer Hebrides in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Scotland. It’s joined by a causeway to North Uist to the north and South Uist to the south. The island is about 12 kilometres (7 miles) from west to east and a similar distance from north to south. Benbecula’s main settlement and administrative centre is Balivanich (Scottish Gaelic: Baile a’ Mhanaich, meaning “Town of the Monk”). In 1746, Bonnie Prince Charlie was caught in ...