Golf, by TourMiss

Rory McIlroy joked that he ‘feels’ for Tony Finau in backing changes to the Rules of Golf that came into affect on 1st January, 2019. Among the rules changes is it is now legal to putt while on the putting surface with the flagstick in the hole while you can also tap-down spike marks that may be in your line of putt. But in one of the more bizarre changes, and a change that could easily lead to all forms of interpretation, players will now have to take a penalty drop in dropping the ball ...

Rory McIlroy has arrived in Hawaii for a maiden appearance in the Sentry Tournament of Champions declaring the European Tour to be ‘one-sided’. And in joining eight others making their debut in the winner’s only event including Open Champion, Francesco Molinari, we are no closer to knowing whether McIlroy has chosen not to rejoin the European Tour despite confirmation European Tour CEO, Keith Pelley travelled to Belfast to talk with McIlroy following his shock remarks at the 2018 ...

Big Sur – The name always conjures-up thoughts of stunning cliff top Pacific Ocean lined scenery. We took the drive along portion of Highway 1 earlier this year. The State of California realising the worth of the region in 1965 designated the 72-mile (116 klm) long section of the highway as the first ‘California Scenic Highway’. A year later in 1966,  Ladybird Johnson and the wife of President Johnson led the official designation ceremony at Bixby Creek Bridge. The same year, the ...

The North Palm Beach Country Club is just a short drive from the home of the Golden Bear – Jack Nicklaus. It’s a public golf course located in an area of Florida saturated by far too many private and members-only country clubs. North Palm Beach is also strangely just one of two municipal courses designed by Nicklaus. The first was Breckenridge Golf Club in Colorado, which opened over 20 years ago to rave reviews and remains one of the state’s most successful public-access courses. And ...

Tom McKiddon was left ruing spoiling a superb start to the Orlando International Amateur Championship in Florida. The Belfast teenage sensation was soon in contention to be four-under par through five holes on day one of the three-day event at the Orange County National Golf Club Centre. However, McKibbin then bogeyed the next three holes and doubled the par-4 13th hole to now be back to one-over before finishing birdie, bogey, par, birdie and bogey in a disappointing two-over par 74 on the Crooked ...

There will be an Hawaiian lei awaiting Rory McIlroy but not for Tiger Woods. This will be officially confirmed when entries officially close tomorrow for the opening event on the 2019 season – the January 3rd starting Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. For a first time since 2013 both McIlroy and Woods qualified for the ‘winners only’ Kapalua event by virtue of McIlroy’s Arnold Palmer Invitational success and with Woods ending a five-year victory drought in emotional manner ...

Whenever I hear the name Pismo Beach I bizarrely recall a famed Bugs Bunny cartoon. It all began with a comment by long-time great friend, Joe Sroba. Joe and I were on a first trip to the States and in travelling down the West Coast it was planned we’d stop and visit Pismo Beach. “Why do you want to stop at Pismo Beach”, I think I recall saying to Joe. Joe responded laughing: “It’s where Bugs Bunny always went for his holidays. He’d turned left at ‘Albekerkie'”. Now ...