Golf, by TourMiss

The 88th hosting of The Masters is still over five months away yet here we are talking of the field teeing-up next April. Of course, we are just shy of six weeks away when those within the top-50 on the World Rankings, and not already exempt, are afforded an invitation so I guess we head closer ot the festive season we can give the year’s traditional first major a mention. The US magazine Golf Digest has release a list of 77 players, including 18 former Augusta National champions, who are ...

Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher continues his brilliant show of over-50 form in birdieing his closing two holes and share the lead heading into the final round of a 2025 Champions Tour qualifier in California. Gallacher, who turned the big Five Zero on November 1st, and with son Jack again acting as caddy, shared the lead on day one and then led by two shots after the second day and tee-up in the fourth and final 18-holes with Gallacher tied at the top on 11-under with American amateur Jeremy ...

The hosting each year of the Link Hong Kong Open rekindles so many fond memoies for this golf writer. I made my debut at the Hong Kong tournament in 2003 and the then third year hosting of a joint Asian Tour and European Tour tournament that was first staged in 1959. The timing each year of the Hong Kong Open was ideal for me as it was late in the European Tour season and in those earlier career visits, it would break the long journey from my UK base and onwards to Australia to join family and friends ...

Scotland’s David Drysdale tees-up in this week’s Link Hong Kong Open clearly buoyed by his efforts in a Champions Tour qualifier last week in Florida. Drysdale and caddying wife Vicky shared seventh place in the four-rounder that finished last Friday on the Buckhorn Springs Golf & Country Club course at Valrico near Tampa. It qualifies Drysdale for next month’s final qualifying event in Phoenix, Arizona and with the leading five place-getters earning a start on next year’s ...

Jason Day has not been home to Australia in seven years but he got dietary priorities correct with one of his first stops after his plane had landed was to visit his favourite Forest Lake bakery a for a meat pie. The humble meat pie is staple food item for Australians the country over. For those not familiar it is a a hand-sized pie containing diced or minced meat and gravy, sometimes with onion, mushrooms or cheese. And it comes as no surprise Day should seek out a meat pie within a short time ...

Scotland’s Richie Ramsay has warmed ahead of contesting the duo of co-sanctioned Australian events by tackling the country’s No. 1 rated golf course. Ramsay will tee-up in this week’s BMW Australian PGA Championship at the Royal Queensland club in Brisbane and then will head south to Melboure for next week’s ISPS Handa Australian Open being staged at the Kingston Heath course. This week marks the 10th occasion the Australian PGA Championship has been co-sanctioned by the DP ...

Six-time European Ryder Cup star Justin Rose has weighed-in on the controversy surrounding reports the USA team will be paid to tee-up next September at Bethpage Park Black in New York State. The news has neither been confirmed or denied by the PGA of America but nonetheless it has generated plenty of negative comment slamming the Americans if they were paid to play. One of the more vocal opponents was now six-time DP World Tour No. 1 Rory McIlroy who declared last fortnight in speaking to the BBC ...