Golf, by TourMiss

Here’s a quick question for you?   Who’s the Australian player to own a house that backs onto Royal Melbourne and venue later this for the Presidents Cup? He’s also the only Australian regularly competing anywhere in the world today to have won a Major Championship. While Ireland, Northern Ireland and South Africa have shared many of Major Championship trophies in recent years, it’s been five years since Geoff Ogilvy emerged from the Winged Foot carnage to capture the 2006 U.S. Open. Along ...

Frenchman Raphael Jacquelin has competed in a number of team events with the exception of one, the Ryder Cup. The 37-year old Lyon-born Jacquelin, who now lives in Switzerland with his young family, first represented France in the 2000 in the Alfred Dunhill Cup while a year later he pulled on the French colours in the first of seven straight World Cup appearances. In 2002, Jacquelin took the big step in qualifying for the Vivendi Seve Trophy side at Druids Glen in Ireland. Jacquelin was teamed with ...

In a bizarre decision, Japan’s pin-up golfer, Ryo Ishikawa has fallen foul of the Japan Tour and fined after sitting out two events in August and September. The Japan PGA Tour fined their star player nearly $US 30,000 after the 19-year old withdrew from the Kansai Open Golf Championship that ended on the 21st August, and last week’s Toshin Golf tournament at Lake Wood. And Ishikawa was fined despite producing doctor’s evidence of a sore shoulder as his reason for not competing. Ishikawa ...

They’re training aides but what a vast array of gimmicks and gadgets Darren Clarke brought with him to France to help fight the frustration with his putting. Clarke has travelled to Saint Nom-la-Breteche for a first appearance in nine years in the biennial Vivendi Seve Trophy. However as he worked on his putting in a corner of the practice putting green it was as though the reigning Open Champion had just come back from the latest golf trade show. Clarke was laden with  a variety ...

It rumours around the Tour are correct, and more often than not they are, then the Volvo Golf Champions will be held next in South Africa. The newly created European Tour event was staged earlier this year in Bahrain and heralded the start of a four tournament run in the Middle East. England’s Paul Casey delighted in winning the event on the Colin Montgomerie designed Riffa Views course. However civil unrest in the Arab state forced FIFA to abandon plans of staging the opening race of the Formula ...

GB & I captain Paul McGinley is betting his ace duo of Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood can come up trumps in retaining this week’s Vivendi Seve Trophy at Saint Nom-la-Breteche to the south-west of Paris. Clarke is making his first appearance in the biennial event in nine years while Westwood has been recruited into the GB & I side after an eight-year absence. Despite their long absence from the European Tour team’s event, the pair boast between them a dozen Ryder Cup appearances. And ...

Rory McIlroy reluctantly accepted a career best of No. 3 after finishing within two shots of success in the KLM Open in Holland. McIlroy has unseated German Martin Kaymer to move in behind the England duo of Luke Donald and Lee Westwood atop of the rankings. And Kaymer, who missed the Dutch cut, has slumped to No. 6 in the world with the American pair of Steve Stricker and Dustin Johnson now a respective fourth and fifth. England’s Simon Dyson claimed his second Race to Dubai in six events ...