Golf, by TourMiss

The ‘Down Under’ pair of Min Woo Lee and reigning Open Champion Cameron Smith are ready to take centre  stage at the 123rd US Open in the heart of Hollywood. Lee will start the third round in a tie for sixth at six-under, following a best second day score of a 5-under 65 while Smith (67) played a grest supporting role to be four-under and also finish inside the top-10. A day after setting a new US Open low of 8-under 62, American Rickie Fowler ensured he would own the lead outright ...

Seamus Power’s had his first look at this week’s ultra-exclusive Beverly Hills located U.S. Open host course and reckoned it’s ‘cool’. Power, 36, is teeing-up in a second straight U.S. Open and also just a seventh showing at the game’s highest level, since making his majors debut at last year’s Masters. It’s not only a first look at the host L.A. Country Club for the West Waterford golfer but also for albeit a small handful of players in this year’s 123rd hosting of the U.S. Open ...

There was a time, and up until he sold the property in 2016, that Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner owned the expansive mansion complex beside the 13th tee on the North Course of the L.A. Country Club and host venue for this week’s 103rd US Open. Hefner purchased the famed Playboy Mansion in 1971 for $US 10m, and reportedly sold it for $US 110m. He passed away a year after the sale in 2017, aged 91. The ‘LACC’, as it is commonly referred, is laid out slap bang in the middle ...

Scotland’s Richie Ramsay put aside his disappointment over the recent shock news in men’s pro golf to snatch an eagle and four birdies on the opening day of the Volvo Scandinavian Mixed in Sweden. Ramsay, 39, brilliantly cleared water twice in finding the green at the par-5 15th, and the sixth hole of his round, landing his second shot to just eight-feet and holing the putt. The four-time Tour winner grabbed four other birdies, including a 10-footer at his last in a four-under 68 on the host ...

The totally unexpected announcement yesterday of the merger of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour with the Saudi-backed LIV Tour will not only just affect the now trio of unified tours in men’s pro golf. The Asian Tour for decades before the emergence of LIV Golf had been the unofficial third ranked Tour in men’s professional golf though they’ve been the hardest hit in recent years, first by the worldwide Covid pandemic and then the emergence of the inaugural LIV Golf tournament a year ...

In an highly-explosive and recently released book, former Golf Channel announcer Lisa Cornwell has slammed the misogynistic practices at the dedicated golf-only channel. Though Cornwell has saved her harshest words for Brandel Chamblee, who she admits clearly wanted her sacked from the day she began working at The Golf Channel. Indeed, Cornwell devotes an entire chapter in her book to Chamblee, the one-time PGA Tour winner who has got up the nose of many, including more-recently Phil Mickelson, and ...

It is hardly a surprise to learn the R & A has ‘blacklisted’ Trump Turnberry from hosting any further Open Championship while bearing the Trump name. It’s 14-years ago Turnberry last hosted golf’s oldest major with the staging of the 2009 Open won by Stewart Cink when he defeated Tom Watson in a play-off. Trump purchased the Turnberry complex five years later and with strong suggestions then in 2014 that while Turnberry was now under Trump ownership  it was off the Open Championship ...