Golf, by TourMiss

Rory McIlroy or DP World Tour? Who’s likely to be more shocked if new Holywood sensation Tom McKibbion joins LIV Golf? News the 22-year-old McKibbin could be joining Jon Rahm’s Legion X111 side has hit the golfing news websites like a rocket and with the Northern Irishman to replace South African Scott Vincent. McKibbin is making his 2025 season debut in this week’s DP World Tour Team Cup in Abu Dhabi, and in the latest version of what used to be the Seve Trophy and used a guide ...

Top Scot Robert MacIntyre has kick-started his new season on Hawaii with a rock solid three-under 70 and then revealing a simple New Year golfing resolution on the opening day of The Sentry being again hosted on the Kapalua course in Hawaii. MacIntryre, 28, posted five birdies and two bogeys in bright, warm but windy conditions to end the round sharing 23rd place in the 59-player $20m tournament. American Tom Hoge, who was out in the very first group, leads the way in recording a blistering nine-under-par ...

Today  1st January, 2025 marks the 25th aniversary of hitting a first golf shot on a golf course of the 2000 Millennium. I undertook this history-making first on the stroke of midnight at the Manamo’ui Golf Club course on the Pacific Ocean island of Tonga. Tonga boasts the most easterly golf course in the world and given the location of the golf course, and it also being midnight I had the great help of a couple of people who kindly offered to park their cars with their headlights turned on ...

Those who like their Scottish golf may know how partial I am to the Askernish course located along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides. If I have done my job well then you may be planning to visit this Old Tom Morris designed links gem and, if so, you may wish to make the small effort visiting a little-known nine-hole course around a 35-minute drive north named Benbecular. Benbecular is around both a 12-kilometre long and also similar width wide island located ...

There is three golf courses I’ve played that boast bunkers of a ‘different’ kind. When I say of a ‘different’ kind I am referring to concrete bunkers.  I hear you say: “Concrete bunkers?”.  Yes, concrete bunkers and defence bunkers built during World War 11. There is an anti-aircraft bunker still in position at the back of the seventh green on the Craighead Links course at my home club in Crail, Scotland.  The bunker at Crail faces the North Sea is among ...

After the delight and thrill in watching and listening to Tiger Woods over the past three days, the 15-time major champion looks and sounds ready to return to formal PGA Tour competition. Woods and 15-year-old son Charlie brilliantly teamed in going so close to securing a maiden PNC Championship victory, losing out to a Bernhard Langer eagle putt as the first extra play-off hole on the host Ritz Carlton course in Orlando. While a Team Tiger maiden success would have been such a great storyline, Tiger ...

I have spoken often of the great pleasure in travelling the world reporting on the ancient club-and-ball game and also equally teeing-up in so many different countries. This includes also teeing-up along the shoreline of the world’s oceans and seas and to then have the good fortune to enjoy a round on the opposite shoreline of the same ocean or sea. An example of what I am referring is Australia’s Crescent Head Golf Club course and recently featured on this website (See: http://www.golfbytourmiss.com/2024/12/crescent-head-country-club-a-stunning-6-hole-gem-overlooking-the-mighty-blue-pacific/ ...