Golf, by TourMiss

Call it ‘Wrist Watch Wars’ but double Open Champion, Greg Norman is fuming after incidents in recent weeks involving rival time piece sponsors  – Omega and Rolex. However it came to a head Norman said on Monday and within the Gleneagles Hotel. Firstly, it should be pointed out anything to do with the Ryder Cup in Europe has the sponsorship support of Rolex. Whereas when the European Ryder Cup Team heads to Medinah later next month they will find Omega the official time piece. But ...

The 2013 Race to Dubai schedule is already taking shape despite the uncertainty of 2012 season-ending events. The European Tour annouced earlier this week two new events on next year’s schedule – the Nelson Mandela Championship and the Tshwane Open. However the end of the 2012 Race to Dubai schedule does not look so bright with the Madrid Masters and Castellon Masters, and each to have been played in Spain, cancelled. Also there is serious doubt the October 18-21 Andalucia Masters will ...

A new event honouring Nelson Mandela will herald the start of the 2013 European Tour season. The Nelson Mandela Championship will be a co-sanctioned Euroepan and Sunshine Tour event to be staged from 6th to 9th December, 2012 in either Durban or Humewood, South Africa. So while the event will be a part of the 2012/13 Sunshine Tour it will be the first event on the 2013 Race to Dubai schedule. The field of 156 professionals will be made up of equal numbers from both the Sunshine and European Tours ...

Paul Lawrie’s abiding memory of his best-ever finish in the Omega European Masters was being on the receiving end of a kiss from Super Model, Cindy Crawford. That was 10 years ago after Lawrie had finished joint runner-up to Sweden’s Robert Karlsson and with Crawford on hand at the prize-giving ceremony in her role as an ambassador for the Swiss watch making giant. This year is Lawrie’s 13th visit to the alpine course and while he had a little trouble remembering the year he finished second, ...

An injury-plagued Paul Casey has resigned himself to returning next year full time to the European Tour. Casey, 35 has been competing on both the PGA and European Tours full time since 2008 with success on both sides of the Atlantic. However the England golfer has been beset by injury in recent years firstly injuring his ribs at the end of 2009 while earlier this year he damaged his shoulder in a snowboarding mishap in Colorado. Casey’s two-year PGA Tour exemption also in capturing the 2009 Shell ...

Nicolas Colsaerts declared after being handed a ‘wildcard’ pick he’s living proof you can make the Ryder Cup team. Colsaerts comes from a rich sporting family but the first Belgian to compete in the Ryder Cup revealed he spent Sunday night nervously indulging in a ‘local sport’ before confirmation of his inclusion in the European team. He had been staying the week of the Johnnie Walker Championship with friends and spent some of his time after competition fishing. The 29-year ...

Of all the phone calls European Ryder Cup captain Jose Maria Olazabal made late on Sunday nigth the call to Padraig Harrington he says was by far the hardest. Harrington was handed the cruelest decision of his illustrious career in being overlooked as one of Olazabal’s wildcard picks. The triple Major winner’s run of six straight Ryder Cup appearances career ended just after noon yesterday within the palatial surrounds of the Gleneagles Hotel. Predictably, Olazabal selected England’s Ian ...