Golf, by TourMiss

Justin Rose has been runner-up three times at the Masters including, as we all know, a year ago in losing a play-off to Rory McIlroy. Now in already a likely repeat to a year ago, the names McIlroy and Rose appear atop of the leaderboard late on the second day of this year’s 90th hosting of The Masters. Rose grabbed five birdies in a three-under 69 for the then clubhouse lead at five-under, and doing so as McIlroy was on his way to birdieing three holes in succession from the second to fourth ...

Top-ranked Robert MacIntyre has been reprimanaded by Augusta National officials over his highly offensive ‘middle finger salute’ and other issues during a shock opening round of an eight-over par 80 at the Masters. MacIntyre’s emotions were on the boil earlier in his round but they reached boiling point at the 15th hole, when he twice found the water & cameras catching the Oban lefty showing his disgust ahead of posting a quadruple-bogey 9. BREAKING @TheMasters NEWS … Top ...

Masters champion Patrick Reed earned himself a double set of Masters crystal goblets after an impressive kick-start to his 13th appearance at Augusta National. Reed is going home with more crystalware after superbly eagling both the par-5 second and eighth holes on the opening day of the 90th hosting of the Masters. The effort helped the 2018 Augusta victory hero to an eventual three-under 69 in the bright but windy conditions. Reed’s effort as well is the first time the Texas golfer has teed-up ...

He’s the reigning Masters champion and eyes of the sports world were clearly on Rory McIlroy teeing-up as the reigning Augusta National champion. Accompanying McIlroy was in-form Cameron Young and 18-year-old Georgia golfer Mason Howell, the reigning US Amateur champion. Last July, Howell became the third youngest player to capture the US Amateur with victory affording the local Georgia born golfer entry into this year’s Masters, the US Open and also the Open Championship. It is a Masters ...

A Masters patron commented that maybe it was Seve looking down from above. Maybe it was given today – April 9 – is Seve Ballesteros’ birthday as he would have been 69 today when his Spanish compatriot, fellow Masters champion and long-time close friend Jose Maria Olazabal took the lead early on the opening day of the 2026 Masters. A PRICELESS COMMENT FROM A DOUBLE @TheMasters CHAMP … After Jose Maria Olazabal takes the lead early on the opening day. “I look at the leaderboard. ...

It’s obvious that if Rory McIlroy is going to become the fourth player to win back-to-back Masters he must achieve that golf this week at Augusta National. Jack Nicklaus, and one of the trio to achieve this feat, reckons McIlroy can to just that in this 90th hosting of the Masters. “Rory’s got the monkey off his back, and I think he has a very, very good chance to repeat,” said Nicklaus after again joining Gary Player and Tom Watson in the annual Official Former Champions Starters ceremony ...

  THIRTY-YEARS ON AND STILL NO RESPECT FOR FALDO … On the 30th anniversary of his 1996 @Masters meltdown the Shark @SharkGregNorman rips into Nick ‘it’s all about me’ Faldo. “Faldo was the one who came up to me, he’s the one who hugged me. He’s the one who said, ‘Don’t let the bastards get to you”, said the Aussie great speaking this week to the Telegraph, “But it didn’t really mean much to me, because I knew he’d soon go back to being ...