Golf, by TourMiss

English golfer Marco Penge admits it was a ‘genuine and honest mistake’ after being fined £2,000 and suspended from DP World Tour competition for three months till 13th February, 2025. Penge was found guilty for breaching the European Tour Integrity Programme after placing bets on golf though, as he says, not one bet on himself rather just sporting events, in general. As he stated:  “My bets were all for entertainment purposes to make watching golf more fun – just like most ...

It’s timely in writing this golf course feature (late December 2024) as it is less than two weeks shy of the 25th anniversary of my historic ‘First Person To Hit a Golf Shot on a Golf Course In 2000‘ and also just a month away from 25-years when I played my first game of golf in South Africa. My visits to the Rainbow Nation sadly have been just a few and each to be present at DP World Tour tournament venues in Joburg and Durban. A maiden visit was to Joburg in the second week of ...

David Law tees-up for only a second occasion in five years at this week’s AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open looking to make a sizable monetary deposit ahead of the up-coming Festive Season break. Law, 33 has competed on the Indian Ocean island just once before and that being in 2019 and also in his last event of the year, some eight months after his maiden DP World Tour triumph in Australia and in his maiden Tour season. While this week’s AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open is also the last of the ...

For all its pre-match hype the much-anticipated ‘The Showdown’ between two of the PGA Tour’s best against two rival LIV Golf stars ended with little fanfare, little excitement and resulting in a one-sided letdown. It was first in meen’s professional golf with two of the PGA Tour’s best players in Scheffler and McIlroy up against two of the best LIV Golf stars in Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau at the Shadow Creek course outside of Las Vegas. There really just one ...

One of the great delights of living or visiting Sydney is the dozen and dozens of pristine beaches to the north and south of Australia’s largest city. So, when it comes to golden sand beaches located right on your front doorstep then Sydney has to be the envy of the world as there is close to 100 Pacific Ocean coastline beaches in a 100-kilometre stretch from Palm Beach in the north of the city to Garie Beach in the south. Indeed the entire coastline of the state of New South Wales (NSW) boasts ...

Scotland’s David Drysdale produced a stunning back nine turnaround in his fortunes on day one of the five-round 2025 Asian Tour qualifier at Hua Hin in Thailand. Drysdale, 49 was out off the 10th tee on the host A/B course at the Lake View Resort but soon was back-pedalling in posting a horror four-over ‘7’ at the par-3 12th hole in his quest to regain his Asian Tour card after a disappointing 2024 season. It got no better for the affable Scot in dropping shots at the 14th and ...

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler reckons that Tuesday’s ‘The Showdown’ taking place under lights at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas is about the bigger picture still sadly hurting men’s professional golf. “Ideally, I think the end goal here is to get the game of golf back together,” said Scheffler. We’ve had endless ‘made for TV’ showdowns in the game of golf but there’s never been nothing like the ‘unpublished’ reasons for ‘The ...