Golf, by TourMiss

It’s a wonderful story he broke to the media at the recent Scottish Open but Jeev Milka Singh has again expressed his goal of carrying the India flag at the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janiero. Singh will look to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious sprint-champion father who represented India in the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games. He did not succeed in winning an Olympic medal but he did become the first athlete from the new republic of India to win a gold sports ...

It came as a surprise in moving towards row 30 on United Flight UA 1177 from Newark to Cleveland to find Sweden’s Peter Hanson sitting in seat 30H. We both had just arrived into Newark Airport with Peter jetting in from Copenhagen while I had travelled direct from Edinburgh. Hanson had been competing last weekend in the Schuco Open at Gut Kaden in Hamburg where countryman Henrik Stenson posted a seven under par 66 to edge out Spain’s big-hitting Alvaro Quiros. I had been allocated seat ...

By Agathe Seron at Evian Masters. Korean Inbee Park captured the 2012 Evian Masters by two strokes with a superb final round 66 along the shoreline of Lake Leman. Australia’s evergreen Karrie Webb and American Stacey Lewis shared second place on 15-under par. American Stacy Lewis was holding out thefield during the first 54 holes. It is often said that player wins a tournament on Sunday but lost it on Saturday. Lewis shot a shy 73 on third round and she was the last player to wear out the grass ...

Austrian Bernd Wiesberger added a first Austrian Open title to his impressive haul of Austrian amateur titles with success in the Lyonness Open. The 26-year old Wiesberger called it the best day of his life after a brilliant seven under par 65 gave him victory by three strokes with a 19-under par tally. The Austrian birdied seven of his closing 10 holes to roar past third round leader Thorbjørn Olesen and claim his second Race to Dubai success this year after earlier in the season winning ...

Bernd Wiesberger – With his Lyonness Open success:- *   His second European Tour International Schedule victory in his 79th European Tour event. *   Moves to €654,984 in The Race to Dubai. *   His second European Tour victory of the 2012 season, following the Ballantine’s Championship. *   Becomes the third multiple winner of the 2012 season. He would follow: Branden Grace (Joburg Open, Volvo Golf Champions and Volvo China Open) and Louis Oosthuizen (Africa Open and Maybank ...

Dashing Dane Thorbjorn Olesen is just one round away from his second Race to Dubai success this season. Olesen heads to Saturday’s final round still leading by three strokes after carding a third round 68 in the rain affected event at the Diamond Country Club course in Austria. Olesen, who captured the Sicilian Open earlier this year, was already in the clubhouse with a 12 under par halfway mark, however, and none of those returning to the course this morning managed to get close to him. The ...

By Agathe Seron at Evian Masters. Organisers of the Evian Championship today confirmed the first Major in the history of golf to be staged on continental Europe will take place from 12th to 15th September, 2013. Franck Riboud, Chairman, and Jacques Bungert, Tournament Director, unveiled the tournament’s visual identity, its new course and the future facilities that will be created for the historic staging of the LPGA major. Hereunder is a portion from the press conference that took place today. JACQUES ...