Golf, by TourMiss

Shane Lowry will head to the PGA Tour Qualifying School later this month in Florida at the expense of possibly forfeiting a place in the season-ending Dubai Tour Championship. It will mean the 2009 Irish Open winner passing up the riches in the last event of the Race to Dubai for a priceless PGA Tour card. Lowry has just two events, this week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and next week’s Portugal Masters, before teeing up in the First Stage of qualifying from October 24th to 27th on ...

‘Amazing’ Branden Grace has 2010 British Open winner, Louis Oosthuizen and his former caddy, Zach Rasego to thank for extending his lead to five shots at the Old Course on day two of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Grace, 24 teed-up on the famed Home of Golf, and where Oosthuizen won golf’s oldest Major two years ago, a day after having shot a sizzling opening score of 60 a day earlier at nearby Kingsbarns.   The Pretoria-born Grace birdied four holes in succession mid-round ...

Olympic swimming legend Michael Phelps sank a monster 51-yard putt for a net hole-in-one, during the second round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. Phelps, whose normal handicap is 24 but has been readjusted for the event to 16, drove the front edge of the green at the par four, sixth hole or the 15th hole of his round at Kingsbarns before holing his lengthy downhill second shot putt. The fact Phelps had a stroke on the hole meant signing for a ‘one’ on his scorecard. “That ...

Peter Hanson has soured Europe’s Ryder Cup success and declaring: ‘There will be not many Christmas cards for Jose Maria Olazabal.’ Hanson qualified automatically for a second straight European Team and then two weeks later burst into winning form in capturing the KLM Open. However any thoughts Hanson had of impressing the European Team captain were snuffed out when the Orlando-based Hanson played just one match before the Sunday Singles. Hanson had teamed with Scotland’s Paul Lawrie ...

Hot favourite Paul McGinley declared he will not be pigeon holed into declaring he wants the 2014 European Team captaincy. McGinley had spent the past few months playing down suggestions of being chosen as a Medinah vice-captain, and the Dubliner is staring at a same scenario over the next four months before a replacement of Jose Maria Olazabal is named. McGinley is returning to competition at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship where he recorded an opening round 75 at Carnoustie.   But ...

Michael Phelps, and the world’s greatest-ever Olympian, confessed he had never been so nervous or excited at a major U.S. sporting event that being present at last week’s Ryder Cup at Medinah. Phelps was in Chicago lending his support to a USA side that went from being 10-6 ahead to lose the 39th Ryder Cup by a point. “I was able to watch a lot of guys up front last week at Medinah but being able to go out in that environment on that course was something that I have never experience before ...

It is uncertain, despite one newspaper report, that Ryder Cup executives are investigating allegations of abusive and obscene remarks directed at the wives and girlfriends of the European Team players. Among those singled out was Kristin Stape, and the American-born girlfriend of Graeme McDowell. The Belfast Telegraph has splashed the story on their sports pages but have failed to back up any of the claims and spoken to no one either at the European Tour or connected with the PGA of America. Stape ...