Golf, by TourMiss

Asian Tour Commissioner Cho Minn Thant is quietly-confident the main trio of bodies hosting men’s professional will soon return to being each on the same page. Thant has been at the helm of golf’s third biggest tour since 2018 and having worked prior to that as the Tour’s Chief Operating Officer. And is a hopeful sign of better times ahead, it has been the Asian Tour first to welcome members of the breakaway LIV Golf on the Asian Tour and in a move through the highly-successful International ...

It was 25th July, 2019 when it was announced Ireland and the famed Adare Manor club outside of Limerick had been chosen to play host to the 2027 Ryder Cup. One of the first thoughts following this news was that Ireland’s own Graeme McDowell would be an ideal European Team Captain for the 46th staging of the biennial competition. McDowell is a US Open winner, he made his Ryder Cup debut in 2008, he was a veteran of four European Ryder Cup sides, including three victorious sides in succession from ...

Double major winning Bubba Watson has ended his season missing the cut in the PIF Saudi International but as a LIV Golf team ‘owner’ he joked he’d love to see Rory McIlroy apply for a spot in his team. Watson, 46 looks likely to be relegated from LIV competition for next year after an indifferent season for the Range Goats team leader though that has yet to be formally confirmed. ​But in a bizarre scenario ​the double major winner is now charged with finding a ‘playing’ replacement “My ...

…… Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Knowing him as well as I do, it was nice to shake the hand of Steve Lewton earlier this week and for a first time since the English-born golfer captured last September’s Mandiri Indonesia Open. It had been 10 years and a month since his inaugural taste of Asian Tour success when he broke through to claim the 2014 Mercuries Taiwan Masters while Lewton’s win in Jakarta was a seventh pro tour triumph since making his pro debut in 2008. And after posting a second ...

… Riyadh, Saudia Arabia The Graeme McDowell Enterprises Christmas Party s had been delayed for 48-Hours declared Graeme McDowel and delighted with efforts on day two in hot conditions on day two of the PIF Saudi International here in Riyad. Unlike a battling first day effort, McDowell very much at ease sensationally capping his round with an eagle ‘2’ in holing a chip shot at the par-4 third hole he was playing as his 12th on the host Riyadh course. When the putter is cold hit it closer!!! ...

Like so many tournament venues there is a ‘Road of Champions’ leading from the main entrance of the host club down to the clubhouse. This week’s host Riyadh Golf Club is no different but presenting a much longer roadway than normal and thus lined with seemingly dozens and dozens of posts sporting photographic banners of all the leading players teeing-up in the PIF Saudi International. Among those banners is Greame McDowell proudly holding the now Asian Tour victory trophy he won back in 2020 ...

Sergio Garcia confirmed after paying a whopping £1m fine he will not make his return to the DP World Tour till the first week of July and the BMW International Open in Munich. Garcia, and speaking exclusively with GolfByTourMiss, indicated it is the added tournaments suspension imposed on him that means he will not be formally eligible to compete to tee-up in a full DP World Tour event until the 26th touranment in the 42-tournament 2024/25 wraparound season. “I’ve paid the fine and happy to ...