Golf, by TourMiss

  Wishing all our many, many golfing friends a very happy and enjoyable 2026 golfing year. So, as we look foward to the year ahead what is top of your New Year golfing wish list? Is it to break 100?  Maybe it’s posting your lowest round of golf or maybe play a round without any dropped shots. Could it be simply setting yourself the goal of finally winning one of the Saturday medal outings or a weekly stableford competition that could lead hopefully to a first-ever club championship honour? You ...

December 30th, 2025 – Tiger Woods turns the big FIVE ZERO … A very special happy 50th birthday to Tiger Woods and with GolfByTourMiss delighted to share in Tiger’s birthday looking back over the past 50-years, admiring the golfer who single-handedly changed the very landscape of the ancient club-and-ball game. We’ve chosen a mix of 30-odd Woods related notes dealing with his career, and sharing some of our own Tiger-related memories from being in his presence, as he competed ...

Thirteen years ago, top Indian golfer Jeev Milkha Singh was sitting in the Castle Stuart clubhouse enjoying a ‘cupper’ and a slice of chocolate cake when he found himself in a play-off for the 2012 Aberdeen Asset Scottish Open. ​In the hour or so since he’d ended his own round, Singh did not think he’d done enough not just to win the event, nor entertain thoughts he may make a play-off. He had teed-off in the 30th of 39 groups that Sunday, July 15th afternoon before handing ...

It’s that time of year for Bernie’s annual awards. Bernie’s annual awards are not your yearly run-of-the-mill awards, as you can go to any golfing website to find those. This golf writer continues to be different in all the right ways, having hit the first golf shot on a golf course in 2000, played golf in nearly 50 different countries, and has attended around 90 majors in the men’s professional game, and here again at year’s end recognizing some of the best, worst, ...

Chinese-born lefty Yuxin Lin has superbly topped the list of 35 qualifiers at the 2026 Asian Tour Q-School. Yuxin, a two-time Asia-Pacific Amateur champion, signed off for a four-under 67 for a 16-under winning tally at the host Lake View Resort & Golf Club, in the seaside resort town of Hua Hin, Thailand. The 25-year-old Lin finished with a tournament total of 16-under to win by an impressive three shots from India’s Shaurya Bhattacharya. Two Aussies also earned full 2026 Asian Tour membership ...

Scott Jamieson heads into the Christmas festive season break on a joyful note after he amazingly ended his year for a second year running posting an eight-under 64 and also a share of ninth as he had done a year ago at the AfrAsiaBank Mauritius Open. Jamieson grabbed an eagle ‘3’ and six birdies in superb bogey-free 64 for a share of ninth place at 12-under on the host Heritage La Réserve Golf Links at Heritage Bel Ombre. The effort was a fine reward for the Florida-based Scot who had ...

While many comment on Rory McIlroy’s sports award last night as capping his best-ever season there remains the strong posibility of a greater life-time honour awaiting the Grand Slam champion before this year is out. As GolfByTourMiss has been reporting McIlroy stands a better chance of receiving an unchallenged King Charles 111 Knighthood than the doubt pressent prior to last night of a will he or won’t he be handed an annual TV sports award. See: https://www.golfbytourmiss.com/2025/12/arise-sir-rory-at-least-the-king-of-the-united-kingdom-wont-get-it-wrong/ ARISE ...