Golf, by TourMiss

New U.S. Open champion, Bryson DeChambeau wasted litte time in revealing he will this week test a 48-inch driver and also hopes to be driving the ball unheard distances of 360 and 370-yards, The recently turned 27-year old is celebrating becoming golf’s newest major winner in muscling his way to an impressive six-shot success at Winged Foot. DeChambeau becomes the second maiden major winner of the season, following Collin Morikawa’s PGA Championship success last month. And, as we know, ...

Paul McGinley is spot on in declaring:  “The manner Bryson has won this U.S. Open has rewritten the handbook in how to win a U.S. Open”. Six weeks ago Bryson DeChambeau described his first top 10 in a major as “super-validating” of his muscle bound and scientific ways. The methods, that causing ripples for those who administer the game, had worked a treat since the lifting of the lockdown with three straight top 10s followed by a sixth PGA Tour title, but the jury was out over whether ...

A proud yet worn out Shane Lowry arrives back to Ireland tomorrow (MON) going straight into the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open ‘bubble’ at Galgorm Castle in Ballymena It will be Lowry’s first steps back on the Emerald Isle in seven months since he and his young family moved to rented premises last February at Palm Beach Gardens in Florida. And after a good day’s rest, the reigning Open Champion will be looking for playing conditions to be a little less severe teeing-up on Thursday than the ...

Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre has withdrawn from this week’s Irish Open admitting he’s ‘crushed, battered and bruised’ a brutal U.S. Open mauling at Winged Foot. MacIntyre, 24, will arrive back to Scotland Monday having posted a final round nine-over par 79 for a 21-over tally to share 56th place among the remaining 61 in the field. The Scot ended his round some 30-minutes before the final group teed-up ahead of packing-up his belongings, and along with his mother Carol, coach Davy Burns, ...

Former Italian teenage sensation Matteo Manassero has ended a seven-year winless drought to capture the Toscana Alps Open on the Alps Tour. Manassero holed a birdie putt on the last to win for a first time since capturing 2013 since capturing the European Tour’s flagship BMW PGA Championship. The now 27-year old posted rounds of 63, 65 and 66 for a 19-under par 54-hole total on the Golf Club Toscana at Grooseto. The Italian created history in 2009, and at age 16, in becoming the youngest winner ...

Shane Lowry superbly birdied his closing two holes to muscle his way into the weekend rounds of the U.S. Open at Winged Foot. Lowry posted a gutsy level par 70 to remain at five-over par and head to the clubhouse then sharing 84th place and then right on the halfway cut line. Moments later, and just as fellow Irishman Rory McIlroy teed-off, Lowry found himself up into a share of 78th and with the cut-off mark six-over eventually being confirmed just after 7pm local US time. And while the Clara golfer ...

James Sugrue returns home to Mallow still undecided when he will turn professional in posting rounds of 78 and 79 for a 17-over par tally at the U.S. Open at Winged Foot. Sugrue, 23 failed to record a birdie on day one but then grabbed three of day two including landing a 141-yard second shot into just four-feet and then rolled in the birdie ‘3’ putt at his final hole. Unfortunately, it was an eventful outward nine of two birdies, at the seventh and ninth holes, but also included a pair of bogeys ...