Golf, by TourMiss

In meeting Adam Calver, it’s impossible to miss his naturally sunny disposition. Talking ‘ten-to-the-dozen’, the Director of Golf at Laguna Golf Lang Co, a Faldo design ranked among the best golf courses in Vietnam, will wax lyrical on any number of subjects related to the Royal and Ancient game. Adam’s favourite topics include his rapport with Faldo, his stints at superstar clubs such as Cabot Links & Cabot Cliffs in Nova Scotia, Nirwana Bali Golf Club and Jumeirah Golf ...

The news not surprisingly only gets worst with Scottish Golf now cancelling its entire 2020 schedule. Scottish Golf has been in lock-down mode now for some weeks with some of the amateur game’s leading men’s and women’s events already postponed. The administrators of the game in the Home of Golf nation have led the way in keeping all those playing and administering golf abreast of an ever-changing COVID-19 affected climate but now feel the best move forward is to cancel the 2020 season and ...

Sandy Lyle this week was to have marked a 40-year anniversary since then then 22-year old made his maiden Masters appearance. Just eight years later in 1988 the Scot bravely countered everything to proudly to become just the second European behind the late, great Seve Ballesteros to win at Augusta National. In his 38 appearances and 112 rounds Lyle has had little cause to fear anything. Well everything except the beckoning index finger of Augusta National Chairman, Billy Payne. If was at the 2017 ...

It was around 4pm on the eve of the 2014 Masters and the final preview pieces had been filed. Those afforded invitations to tee-up in the next day’s first round of the opening Major of the year were away either competing in the Par-3 Contest or elsewhere doing what they had to do to prepare themselves for the tournament proper. Golf’s ‘Cathedral in the Pines’, as Augusta National is fondly called, was now closed to any further practice rounds and aside for a few green-staff ...

Graeme McDowell’s young children are delighted with official confirmation their father will now contest November’s rescheduled Masters. Four players – McDowell, South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout and the American duo of Scotty Scheffler and Collin Morikawa – have now been added to the field for the 43rd hosting of the Masters and qualifying by virtue of being inside the top-50 on the World Rankings as at Monday, 30th March. The four were contacted by Augusta National shortly after ...

It was as though we’d been let out of primary school for a first day of summer holidays. Golf journalists the world over, and I include myself, could not get the news out quick enough. No matter what time it was or where you were in the world, we rushed to the normal social media sites before cut-and-pasting statements into our written stories heralding the sad news eminating from the Home of Golf at St. Andrews. First it was golf’s oldest Major being cancelled to next year and thus totally ...

“On the road to Augusta” is the caption on the side of the club cap at Cherokee Run Golf Club near Conyers, Georgia. The caption is correct as Cherokee Run is around a 35-mile drive from Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport and located off the I-20 that links the Georgia capital with Augusta, and from Cherokee Run it is a 120-mile drive to the front gates at Augusta National. The I-20 is an interstate my colleagues and I have plied many, many times and too many occasions to ...