Golf, by TourMiss

For so many years the week prior to the Masters was proudly known as Shell Houston Open week. Shell sponsored the event from 1992 to 2017 though it wasn’t till 2003 the tournament moved to the then known Redstone Golf Club at Humble and very close to Houston International Airport, in America’s fourth largest city. In those days reporting on the Shell Houston Open was ideal as the Houston Open was moved to the week before the Masters Tournament from 2007 through 2018 (except 2013, when ...

The hosting of 2026 Masters is now just over a week away. First staged in 1934, and except for WW2 in 1943-1945, the Masters has been played every year and with 2026 marking the 90th hosting on the golf course affectionately known as ‘Golf’s Cathedral Among The Pines’. GolfByTourMiss spoke with a number of players heading to Augusta National, and one or two other hoping to be teeing-up next week, and asked them, apart from themselves, who would they place a few dollars on to be ...

This week’s Valero Texas Open in San Antonio once again presents not only the opportunity for the PGA Tour’s best to capture this prize Texas event along with a smart pair of Texas cowboy boots but it’s a ‘Last Chance Saloon’ into the Masters. An invitation to tee-up at Augusta National is that added bonus to this week’s winner but only for those players currently not exempt. At present, the Masters Invitee No. 1 category boast 27 Masters champions expected to ...

For just a second occasion in his four Masters appearances, top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre is teeing-up in the week prior to the year’s traditional maiden major championship. MacIntyre will contest this week’s $US 9.9m Valero Texas Open and as he had done four years ago in 2022, finishing T35th on the host TPC San Antonio course in Texas. The Oban lefty will be making a fourth Masters showing having finished T12th on his Augusta National debut in 2021 ahead of a T23rd result a year ...

Talk about keeping it all in the family as this is exactly what the Fitzpatrick brothers have done. A week after elder brother Matt brilliantly captured the Valspar Championship on the PGA Tour and his younger brother Alex has broken through to win a maiden DP World Tour success at the Hero Indian Open near New Delhi. The 27-year-old Alex is four years younger than Matt with the proud golfing family celebrating a double Fitzpatrick back-to-back success, and this despite Alex posting a 72nd hole double ...

Yes, there was no alcohol. Yes, there was no illicit drugs. There is nothing Tiger Woods can be blamed for after his car accident except the simple, undeniable facts: he has undergone several major surgeries in recent years, he is still not fully healed, and he has been struggling for over a year just to return to competitive golf. Woods is genuinely in serious, chronic pain. He is taking prescribed medication to manage that pain — and that has nothing to do with addiction or recreational drugs. I ...

England’s Paul Waring has taken big strides on golf’s traditional ‘moving day’ to put himself now very much in contention for a hopeful overall top-three effort heading into the final round of the Texas Childrens Houston Open. Waring had muscled himself on day one into a one stroke lead and while day two didn’t go to plan in posting a one-over 71, the 41-year-old former Abu Dhabi HSBC champ got back into the overtaking lane on day three, posting a four-under 66 to share ...