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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 ...

Scott Jamieson superbly muscled his way to a share of the lead, regrouping from a mid-round hiccup to post eight birdies in bright but testing, windy conditions on day one of the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. Jamieson had teed-off from the 10th hole and quickly raced to four-under thanks to four birdies over his opening five holes. The Florida-based Scot stalled with a bogey at his sixth hole but regained that lost shot with a birdie at his ninth only to double the par-4 first hole that he was playing ...

Less than  two weeks shy of the real possibility in being Knighted and later today when common sense hopefully will prevail in him being voted BBC 2025 Sportsperson of the Year and Rory McIlroy has spoken of a ‘complication’ being Northern Irish born in Ireland. It was some three months ago when McIlroy arrived at the K. Club with his Masters winning green jacket among his possessions and then proceeded to endear himself to the whole of Ireland, winning a second Irish Open title in a ...

Rory McIlroy may find himself even in deeper troubled waters with members after an adjusted Royal Melbourne course ranking just weeks after his controversial ‘Royal Melbourne is not the best course in Australia’ comment. In McIlroy’s up-dated opinion of Australia’s top-ranked course he now ranks Royal Melbourne the third best in Melboure. McIlroy had been outspoken earlier this month and on the eve of the Crown Australian Open when declaring: “I don’t want the membership ...