Golf, by TourMiss

Tiger Woods sat behind the microphone at a PGA Tour sanctioned event for a first occasion since April’s Masters however he wasted little time side-stepping any talk of taking over the captaincy reins of the USA 2025 Ryder Cup team. No sooner had the American side lost convincingly at this year’s 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome and Woods’ name was being strongly suggested as the replacement for the hapless Zach Johnson. Woods served as a vice captain at the 2018 Ryder Cup in Paris and was ...

Tiger Woods tees-up in this week’s Hero World Challenge ending a near seven-month absence from the game, and indicating that given a long history of personal injury that any future playing schedule would amount to one tournament per month. This week’s 20-player and now increased $4.5m field will be only Woods’ third event this year and his first since withdrawing due to injury following making the halfway cut at The Masters. In fact, Woods is also teeing-up in what will be just ...

Tiger Woods admits the immediate future for golf remains ‘murky’ and there is ‘moving parts’ before an agreement is reached with golf’s warring parties. After near seven-month Woods is returning to formal competition at this week’s Hero World Challenge, and in what is virtually a ‘Take 2’ attempt to contest the 20-only event on the Albany course in The Bahamas. A year ago, Woods was due to tee-up but limped into the media centre to advise it would not ...

It is 10-years this Friday – December 1st – since Rory McIlroy remarkably kept alive a then five-year run of having won at least one tournament a year. He did so in what was McIlroy’s penultimate event of 2013 and in his first year as a fully-fledged Nike golfer, claiming a one-shot victory over the overwhelming home favourite and reigning Masters champion Adam Scott in the Emirates Australian Open at the Royal Sydney club in Sydney. Coming-up the last Scott led by a shot from ...

David Rickman – and one of golf’s leading rules officials is set to retire from the R & A next year. After what will be 37 years of employment with the St Andrews-based governing body, Rickman will bring an end to a long and successful career in golf administration next October. As an expert Rules official, he will have refereed at almost 130 prestigious events in golf by the time he retires. In serving as Chief Referee at The Open next year at Royal Troon, Rickman will mark his 34th ...

Climbing the famed Sydney Harbour Bridge is a must for many on a visit to Australia’s first city but not for Robert MacIntyre. The top-ranked Scot is in Sydney for this week’s joint hosting of both the men’s and women’s Australian Open, and being held on both The Australian and The Lakes Golf Clubs. MacIntyre’s family has flown out from Scotland to support their Ryder Cup winning son as he seeks to become the first Scot in 128-years to lift the Stonehaven Cup when ...

Scot Calum Hill was delighted to put aside ‘some niggling aches and pains’ to grab nine birdies in a closing round 66 at the co-sanctioned Australian PGA Championship in Brisbane. Hill, 29, eventually finished at nine-under to share 15th place on the host Royal Queensland course. Aussie Min Woo Lee went straight to the top of the new 2024 Race to Dubai season with the former Scottish Open champ comfortably capturing the top ‘down under’ title by three shots thanks to a closing 67 ...