Golf, by TourMiss

It will be a Bathgate Golf Club members reunion for two Scottish-born players teeing-up in next week’s inaugural Abu Dhabi Challenge on the secondary Challenge Tour. This is after Louis Gaughan, and currently the club pro at Dubai Hills, posted a second round 68 for a 36-hole total of 139 and capture the 2023 Emirates UAE PGA Championships at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai. Gaughan, 29, posted a first round of one under par 71 over the Fire course Monday to be two shots back of the first ...

Bob MacIntyre has joined the DP World Tour on an historic first visit to the Land of the Rising Sun looking to arrest his flagging World Ranking. MacIntyre is among six Scots teeing-up in the inaugural ISPS Handa Championship Japan, being played in Omitama around a 90-minute drive north-east of Tokyo. It’s been five weeks since the struggling Oban lefty last competed and that was a new season best in his seventh event of a share of seventh at the Magical Kenya Open, though there’s been little ...

DP World Tour CEO Keith Pelley has stressed there will be ‘consequences’ to not only those LIV golfers who broke the Tour rules and regulations in joining LIV but the Tour is also looking to possibly sanction those LIV golfers who tee-up in August in back-to-back Asian Tour events in the UK. Pelley was speaking Monday in a lengthy interview with Bunkered Magazine following last fortnight’s London-based Sports Resolutions Panel decision declaring the DP World Tour was correct in fining those ...

Adelaide, the capital of the Australian state of South Australia, and lovingly known as the City of Churches … 529 christian churches. The city was founded in 1836 and named in honour of Queen Adelaide who was the wife at the time of the British monarch King William IV. It was the only freely-settled British province in Australia which, I guess, it’s a nice way of saying no ships sailed up the Torrens River laden with British-born convicts. However unlike its Sydney and Melbourne ...

Let me start by asking a question.  How many 12-holes golf courses have you played? While 12-hole golf courses are pretty rare, some of the famous courses in golf started off being a dozen holes, including Prestwick that from 1860 hosted the first dozen Open Championships. More recently, legendary Jack Nicklaus opened a 12-hole course back in 2007 he named ‘Red Ledges’ located to the east of Salt Lake City in Utah. Going onto the club’s website the course is described as: “One ...

  Scot David Drysdale has taken a first big stride in superbly qualifying for the big-money Asian Tour events in coming months by muscling his way inside the top-10 on the 2023 season re-ranking table of those earning full Tour status earlier this year. Drysdale’s share of 16th in the International Series Vietnam saw him jump 31 spots to seventh on this first re-rank list for the new season, and thus rubber stamping his place in such events as the International Series England in the third ...

This week’s hosting of the RBC Heritage Classic reminds me of many incidents that took place in the days before and during the tournament held annually in the week following the Masters. It’s a easy 3-hour drive south-east from Augusta, Georgia to Hilton Head Island in South Carolina however, as I have reported before, you have got to stick to the speed limit driving through a number of these sleepy ‘one-horse’ towns. Just ask Jose Maria Olazabal, who was nabbed the day ...