Golf, by TourMiss

For a second occasion in some 10 months and Scot Robert MacIntye has found himself playing second fiddle to American J J Spaun. The reigning US Opean champion Spaun muscled his way into the clubhouse lead in posting a closing 67 for a 17-under tally as rain continued to fall on the host TPC San Antonio course in the Alamo City. MacIntyre was playing some 30 minutes behind the American and put himself to within a shot of Spaun playing the par-5 72nd hole but only to play a wild hook second shot, ...

Aussie Travis Smyth was brilliantly soaring high in the Land of the Rising Sun, eagling the last to sensationally claim victory in the International Series Japan by one. In a riveting finish, Smyth drained a 20 footer to claim victory and avoid a play-off with Thailand’s Pavit Tangkamolprasert and Ryosuke Kinoshita from Japan – at Caledonian Golf Club, near Tokyo. The 31-year-old Smyth’s final putt saw him shoot a seven-under-par 64 to finish at 15-under, with Pavit and Kinoshita both in ...

For someone who has been most fortunate to attend the Masters for 23-years, and enjoyed the honour of playing Augusta National twice, including breaking 100 on both occasions, here’s a few observations that I hope may whet your appetite a little ahead of this coming week’s 90th hosting of The Masters. THE 1934 MAIDEN MASTERS HAD TO BORROW FUNERAL CHAIRS FOR SEATING …. The first “Augusta National Invitation Tournament”, as the Masters was originally known, began on March 22, ...

If you’re looking to back a form horse heading into The Masters you’re best putting your hard-earned cash on the in-form Cameron Young and not on double Augusta winning Scottie Scheffleer. This is the view of top advisor Paul McGinley, believing the bookies favourite faces obstacles to repeat his wins of 2022 and 2024. “Scottie’s game to me has definitely gone off this year. I know he’s won a tournament and had a pretty decent start to the season, but he is historically a slow ...

Golf fans are airing their disappointment by taking to social media and voicing their disapprovable with the PGA Tour over continuing delays in the restart to an already to the weather affected third round at the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio. Play on day three of the $US 9.8m event got underway on time at 8.10am local time but had only progressed to 11.51am when the threat of thunderstorms dramatically halted play. All 70 players who made the halfway cut were out on the host TPC San Antonio course ...

Bob MacIntyre certainly had this journalist guessing when the champion Scot disclosed soon after opening-up a four-shot lead through two rounds of the Valero Texas Open that he and his caddy were heading into close-by SanAntonio to a Mexican meal as well as savouring an Acai Bowl ‘mixed with a bit of sweetness in there, as well’. The ‘sweetness in there’ MacIntyre was referring is Nutella and famed sweetened hazelnut cocoa spread. MacIntyre had been leading by two shots heading ...

Top Scot Robert MacIntyre has put himself brilliantly in contention to become a third straight lefty to capture the Valero Texas Open at San Antonio. MacIntyre added a super second round 64 to his opening 66, moving an impressive four shots clear of his rivals at 14-under and heading to the clubhouse in very Scotland-like conditions with the wind getting stronger and also as light rain began to fall. MacIntyre’s fellow double Ryder Cup winning team-mate Ludwig Aberg, who partnered MacIntyre ...