Golf, by TourMiss

Four time Major Champion, Phil Mickelson delivered Callaway a huge early season windfall leading from start to finish to capture the Waste Management Phoenix Open in Arizona. Mickelson also jumped a dozen places to No. 10 in the world in capturing his 41st PGA Tour success and just a week after arch rival Tiger Woods won at Torrey Pines. Mickelson was never headed in shooting rounds of 60, 65, 64 and a last day 67 to win by four shots for a massive 28-under par tally. And Mickelson achieved his ...

Ireland’s Shane Lowry now faces an anxious week long wait before knowing next Monday (Feb 11th) if he qualifies for the WGC – Accenture Match-Play later this month. Lowry arrived home this morning (MON) having missed the cut in the Omega Dubai Desert Classic and the knowledge he’s dropped two places to 64th on the World Rankings.  The top-64 in the world as of next Monday will qualify to tee-up in the February 20th commencing $US 8.75m event in Ariozna. Lowry’s saving grace could ...

When Lee Westwood spotted the European Tour’s Nick Dye and CNN’s Shane O’Donoghue waiting outside the Scorer’s Hut at this week’s Omega Dubai Desert Classic he remarked:  “I wore that colour once during a Dunhill Links Championship and got a big ticking off, and told never to wear the colour again”. I’m not sure who the current World No. 8 was addressing the comment but we’ll now let you be the judge of Nick (left) and Shane’s dazzling ...

Lee Westwood is staring at a difficult final round task of matching the efforts of his horse Rerouted and come from well back to capture the Omega Dubai Desert Classic. Westwood birdied the last two holes in a third round 66 to move to eighth place on 12-under par with a round to play in his opening event of 2013. But it means the former double European No. 1 is trailing nine shots behind Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher heading the Dubai victory post. On Thursday night Westwood’s horse Rerouted ...

In the three years since the MENA (Middle East Northern Africa) Tour has been in operation it’s gone from inititially four events in 2011 to six last year and now a 2013 schedule boasting 13 tournaments. The 2013 MENA Golf Tour schedule which also expand to new events in Morocco and the Gulf states, providing even greater opportunities for players to enhance their careers. The first-half of the season starting in March will see the tour schedule travel to Morocco for two events – one each ...

Dubai’s famous for it’s annual ‘Shopping Festival’ but we spotted a SALE of a different kind this week during Omega Dubai Desert Classic week. The SALE sign clearly greeting motorists stuck in a traffic jam on Sheik Zahed Road.

Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher is looking to finally end a nine-year winless drought despite having to send a caddy up a palm tree to locate his ball on day two of the Dubai Desert Classic. Gallacher the windy conditions, and also some intermittent rain, to snatch four birdies in a two under par 70 and join England’s Tommy Fleetwood (68) and Denmark’s Thornbjorn Olesen (66)  in second place on 11-under par. South African Richard Sterne broke a four way deadlock atop of the board in holing ...