Golf, by TourMiss

The last time Tiger Woods teed-up at the Sherwood Hills club was seven years ago when a record of nearly 25,000 spectators poured into the golf course located in the Santa Monica hills to the north of L. A. I recall, and on a few visits to Sherwood and where the hit TV series MASH was filmed, the houses lining the course being nearly fully donned with very elaborate Christmas decorations. The decorations had been in place since the then second edition of the Williams World Challenge moved to the ...

Tiger Woods has arrived for the defence of his ZoZo Championship title drawn into the current debate concerning the excessive distance the golf ball is being driven. No sooner had Bryson DeChambeau captured the U.S. Open and he was talking about taking time off to test a new driver that he was hoping could send the ball distances of 380-yards. Ever since the lifting of the golfing lockdown DeChambeau has been rewriting the PGA Tour record books in terms of ‘Driving Distance’ and it’s ...

Saturday night, 19th March, 1988 … The NSW State Election is won by the Liberal/National coalition led by Nick Greiner winning 59 seats compared to 43 seats to the Labour Party headed by then Premier Barry Unsworth. Twelve years of Labour rule had come to an abupt end.  After six years savouring the best job I could have imagined, I am now technically out of work but alas, and sadly unlike a few on Treasurer Ken Booth’s staff, I was still an employee of the Premier’s Department ...

It has been mentioned often I should write a book. Maybe I should, given I have been walking around with a media badge either around neck or pinned to my shirt since the early to mid 1980s. I had been drawn into tournament golf by Australian great Greg Norman who, in the mid-70s to early ’80s, was seemingly winning everything. Indeed, Norman won 13 of an eventual 32 Australasian Tour events from 1976 to end of 1984.  He returned home a year later and went on to win another 19 ‘home’ ...

Glaswegian Ewen Ferguson finished the leading Scot and securing his third top-20 result in his 12 events since the lifting of the ‘lockdown’ following the hosting of the inaugural Scottish Championship at the Fairmont Resort of the outskirts of St. Andrews Ferguson, 24 grabbed a seventh hole eagle ‘2’ along with five birdies, including a gem at the last, but also a fourth hole double-bogey in his closing score of 67 for an 11-under par total and a share of 16th place. And afterwards the young ...

Adrian Otaegui has become only the third Spaniard to win on Scottish soil in storming his way to a four-shot success in the inaugural Scottish Championship at the Fairmont Resort to the east of St. Andrews. Otaegui, 27 brilliantly muscled his way from four shots back to win with a nine-under par 63 and a 23-under par victory tally on the Torrance course at the Fairmont Resort. The San Sebastian golfer looked in a class all his own having shot a first round 62, under a ‘four day preferred lie’ ...

Forget about the birdies, start worrying the approaching race horses. An idiot New Zealand golfer just happened to wander onto an adjoining horse-racing track while playing a game of pitch-and-putt on the Ellerslie golf course laid out in the centre of Auckland’s Ellerslie race track. The golfer had ventured under the rails to retrieve his golf ball and much to the shock of the jockeys, and also TV announcer calling the Great Northern Steeplechase. “We were all yelling at him, he obviously ...