Golf, by TourMiss

It’s been less than a month since the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St. Andrews and with the pro/amateur tournament in someway signaling the end of the Scottish golfing season and the approach of shorter daylight hours and colder/winter weather. We’re being reminded of this turn in the weather very much so in recent days with a third storm is as many days lashing the UK  and making it’s presence really felt on the lower east coast of Scotland. Anstruther Golf Club, or Anster ...

The list of players electing not to contest next week’s Abu Dhabi Championship in the UAE capital alarmingly grows. Among the updated list of withdrawals now includes European Ryder Cup winners in Justin Rose, former Abu Dhabi champion Shane Lowry, Matt Fitzpatrick, Robert MacIntyre and Ludwig Aberg. The six have been joined by Open Champion Ryan Fox who is lying sixth on the Race to Dubai rankings. GROWING CONCERN …. As the list of those who’ve qualified on the #RaceToDubai & ...

Graeme McDowell has announced he is leaving LIV Golf despite the breakaway league indicating it is looking to relaunch for the 2027 season with a new invester. McDowell issued a 40-word statement via his X account (see below) he’s decided he will not persue LIV 2.0. The golfer affectionately known as ‘G Mac’ is following in footsteps of fellow LIV stars Jon Rahm, Ian Poulter, Tyrrell Hatton and his fellow Northern Ireland born Tom McKibbin in turning their backs on LIV Golf. As ...

Seamus Power can proudly stand tall despite seeing his goal in capturing a second Butterfield Bermuda Championship and a third PGA Tour success end with a tournament loss at the third extra play-off hole in windblown Bermuda. Power’s goal to become the first repeat Bermuda champion ended with defeat at the hands of American rival Austin Smotherman who pared the hole to Power’s bogey but with the Irishman’s official second place finish good enough to see him comfortably secure full ...

It’s been a nail biting last two days for Scotland’s David Law with the assurance he’s retained full 2027 DP World Tour membership by just two places. The 35-year-old Law had arrived in South Korea lying 97th on the Race to Dubai rankings for the final event of the ‘regular’ DP World Tour season and the Genesis Championship and needing to be inside the top-100 at the end of the tournament to be be assured of holding onto to his ‘card’. Disappointingly the ...

“This is the greatest day of my life” declared Japan’s Yuto Katsuragawa in capturing a second DP World Tour victory with his two-shot triumph at the Genesis Championship in South Korea. The Japanese player began the week at Woo Jeong Hills Country Club in 106th on the Race to Dubai Rankings delivered by DP World, with the top 100 after the event earning their playing rights for next season. However, Katsuragawa blitzed the field on Moving Day as he matched the course record of 63 ...

American John Catlin brilliantly earned himself invitations to next year’s Masters and the 155th Open Championship at St. Andrews after his impressive Link Hong Kong Open triumph. Catlin was never headed over the final round after back-to-back birdies at the 10th and 11th holes ahead of birdies also at the 13th, 14th and penultimate holes, and then rounding off his impressive showing with a super, left-to-right curling par-saving putt at the last in a closing six-under 64 for a five shot success ...