Golf, by TourMiss

In a very first major public address, new PGA Tour chief Brian Rolapp earlier today unveiled plans to double the number of signature events to 16, add in the four existing majors and designate a secondary wave of — Tier II — events building to signature tournaments. This was one of six initiatives Rolapp revealed, indicating the ideal number of tournaments from late January to early September would be 21 to 26. The 53-year-old took-up his role as the Tour’s fifth commissioner on ...

PGA Tour Commissioner Brian Rolapp has been in the role for less than a year though in addressing the media ahead of this week’s Players Championship he got it right by declaring: “It’s not for the PGA Tour to decide whether or not the tournament should be a ranked a major“. It is both a continuing and also an annoying point of discussion whether or not the Players Championship should be a major. The golfing purists will have no talk of The Players being designated a fifth major, ...

Crail Golfing Society is golf’s seventh oldest club and it is proud to announce work on the Practice and Performance Hub has picked-up pace with the site now considerably drier, and construction firm Algo have been able to accelerate activity to catch up for the delays caused by the heavy rain. Algo’s construction team worked late into the evening to ensure the full concrete pour was finished in a single continuous operation. Building Control has since carried out its first inspection and ...

Justin Rose could not have been more to point in calling on Jon Rahm to pay the fines imposed upon him by DP World Tour to ensure his place in next year’s European Ryder Cup team. As being reported by GolfByTourMiss and by evident in our very last post, Rahm is in bitter disagreement with the Tour over sanctions being imposed upon him and this despite seven other LIV Golf players having cordially agreeing to the terms. Rose, who will be very much in contention to captain the 2029 European Team, ...

It seems we may have a war of words surfacing between double Ryder Cup winning team-mates in Jon Rahm and Rory McIlroy. Rahm has been much in the news of late firstly expressing his distaste with the DP World Tour in being imposed sanctions in his wish to rejoin the Tour but then turning to golf’s good guy in going out of his way in arranging a private jet to get  seven players and a caddie out of Dubai and take them to nearby Oman where boarded a private jet to be safely flown to Hong Kong. Rahm’s ...

When you win in Australia how do you celebrate? You could crack open a few ‘tinnies’ and share them among your friends or you could head off to a seafood restaurant to celebrate by asking the staff to throw some prawns on their barbie. Or you could do what Anthony Kim did following his emotional victory at LIVAdelaide and that’s to get yourself a tattoo but not just any tattoo but special Aussie theme tattoo. Kim arranging for himself, his wife, Emily and caddie Grant Bennett to ...

Tommy Fleetwood was not the only one to be surprised when quizzed ahead of this week’s Players Championship if he was aware Tiger Woods was no longer exempt to tee-up in the Tour’s flagship event. Woods is currently among just among players to have Tour’s prize event twice while Jack Nicklaus the only player to capture the tournament three times since the first hosting in 1974. Woods won the title in 2001 and 2013. SOMEWHAT SURPRISE @TigerWoods NEWS …. With the 15-time major ...