Golf, by TourMiss

Kingsbarns Golf Links is proudly celebrating its 20th anniversary (July 17th) with news the award-winning Scottish course is to officially re-open on Saturday 1st August (2020). It’s not quite the time for fanfare given Scottish golf courses are still under Covid-19 related restrictions but Kingsbarns Golf Links, and in conjunction with the famed courses in and around St. Andrews are now can counting the days till they eagerly again welcome visitors back to their links gem. “The worldwide Coronavirus ...

Kingsbarns Golf Links is proudly celebrating its 20th anniversary (July 17th) with news the award-winning Scottish course is to officially re-open on Saturday 1stAugust. It’s not quite the time for fanfare given Scottish golf courses are still under Covid-19 related restrictions but Kingsbarns Golf Links, and in conjunction with the famed courses in and around St. Andrews, now can count the days till they eagerly again welcome visitors back to our Links. “The worldwide Coronavirus pandemic has ...

Super Scot Sandy Lyle reckons the last time he hit a 350-yard plus drive was to a downhill fairway and with a 60mph wind on his tail. Lyle was responding to growing controversy after beefed-up American Bryson DeChambeau, who returns to competition later today (THURS) at the Memorial, a fortnight ago hit 43 drives in excess of 350-yards over four rounds on route to victory in the Rocket Mortgage Classic. A week earlier, DeChambeau left playing partners Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson gob-smacked in ...

Nine-time Major winning Gary Player is concerned the famed Old Course has become ‘obsolete’ given the distance the golf ball is now being driven. Player, who won three Open Championships, was commenting on the impact Bryson DeChambeau has had on the game since the lockdown to golf was lifted. In capturing the recent Rocket Mortgage Classic, DeChambeau recorded 43 drives over 350-yards during the four days in Detroit. Player said: “Something has to be done and it’s very simple.  Just ...

It is not uncommon in all pro sports for sponsors to drop players when they are competing poorly over an extended period of time. Well, not in the case of Scotland’s Marc Warren who brilliantly celebrated a European Tour return to golf in ending a six-year winless drought to capture the Austrian Open. Warren, 39 birdied two of his closing four in a score of 70 to win by a shot at 14-under par on the Diamond Resort course at Atzenbrugg and some 35 miles from Vienna. Warren’s victory is the ...

New Austrian Open winner Marc Warren has revealed the pressure he was under from seven-year old son, Archie to return home with a fourth pro career victory trophy. Warren had intended to remain in Austria for this week’s Euram Bank Open but after ending a near six-year winless drought the Scot jetted out from Vienna and via Prague to Liverpool to be met by his wife, Laura and son Archie who had driven down from Glasgow. Archie was just two months old when he attended his first European Tour event, ...

Scotland’s Marc Warren is set to jump a massive 933 places on the World Rankings following his one shot succes sin capturing the Austrian Open. The 39-year old help celebrate  produced a roller-coaster opening dozen holes on the final day before birding two of his closing four in a score of 70 to win by a shot at 14-under par on the Diamond Resort course at Atzenbrugg and some 35 miles from Vienna. Germany’s Marcel Schneider (69) was second at 13-under par and with the Scottish duo of Peebles ...