Golf, by TourMiss

Rory McIlroy’s revealed a key to hopefully ending his six-year Majors victory drought – lock his mobile phone in the bedside draw and spend time with wife, Erica working on gig-saw puzzles. This year will mark six years McIlroy last tasted Majors success and that was in winning the back-to-back 2014 Open Championship and PGA Championship Now in returning to World No. 1 ahead of this week’s Genesis Invitational, McIlroy was quizzed how he shuts out ‘information intake’ ahead of teeing-up ...

England’s Curtis Knipes was on the money in only his second start as a professional, firing a superb, bogey-free six-under par 66 to take the lead on the opening day of the $75,000 NEWGIZA Open, the first-ever MENA Tour by Arena event in Egypt. The 19-year-old, a member of Chelmsford club, was quick off the block with five birdies in his first seven holes. He then proceeded to make nine straight pars before picking up his only shot on the back nine on the par-5 17 th hole to open up a handy ...

Tiger Woods has now also rocked the golf world coming out in seeming support of a breakway Premier Golf League declaring it to be a ‘natural progression’. The proposed to set-up a Premier Golf League has already sent the golfing establishment into a tail spin  and with both the head of the PGA Tour and European Tour’s despatching emails to their indiviual members supposedly outlining the restrictions that will be put in place should the world’s best choose to leave their respective ...

When was the last time a brother and a sister each won on the major tour’s of the world? I stand to be corrected but with 21-year Min Woo Lee capturing the European Tour/Australasian Tour sanctioned ISPS Handa Open, and to claim a maiden Tour victory, he joined his 23-year old sister Minjee Lee as ‘brother and sister’ champions given Minjee has won five times on the LPGA Tour. It clearly has to be a first in Golf Australia history and surely a very first in European Tour/LPGA history. And ...

Rory McIlroy has advised organisers he intends returning to the Valero Texas Open for a first time in seven years. The event is again being staged on the Greg Norman designed TPC San Antonio course and with McIlroy choosing to tee-up in the Alamo City in the week before the Master. McIlroy elected to contest the 2013 hosting of the event at a very late hour having played poorly a week earlier at the Shell Houston Open. The decision seven years ago to head to the city founded in 1718 proved hugely ...

Sixteen-time Tour Graeme McDowell shares the view of golfs’s two ruling bodies in declaring unrelenting distance gains is lessening overall enjoyment of golf. Some two decades after warning that further significant distance increases would “have the impact of seriously reducing the challenge of the game,” the USGA and R&A finally appear poised to tackle one of the ancient club-and-ball game’s biggest issues. In collecting data from industry experts, tours and stakeholders, golf’s ...

Jedda, Saudi Arabia …… Speculation the Saudi Government is behind a breakaway Premier Golf League (PGL) has now led to confirmation the mega-rich Arab nation’s ambition to seek a second European Tour event, a first PGA Tour and also the maiden hosting Asian Tour event plus the staging of the World Cup of Golf. The day after Graeme McDowell holed the winning putt to capture the second Saudi International and the Saudi Golf Federation played host to the Golf Saudi Summit. The summit ...