Golf, by TourMiss

St. Andrews, Scotland … Danny Willett has returned to the European Tour for this week’s tournament at the Home of Golf still bitterly disappointed at the personal nature of the heckling he endured at Hazeltine. The Masters Champion is among six European Ryder Cup stars competing in Thursday’s starting Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. Willett currently leads the Tour’s Race to Dubai money list with six events remaining but it was events last week in suburban Minneapolis ...

Crail, Scotland … Arnold Palmer was remembered earlier today in a very moving memorial service and fitting just minutes from his beloved Latrobe Country Club course in rural western Pennsylvania. Palmer has learnt his trade at Latrobe and just over a week since ‘The King’ passed away some 1,000 shuffled into the St. Vincent Basilica to honour golf’s greatest legend who won 62 PGA tour titles over the course of his career, died on September 25, 2016 at age 87. Fulfilling ...

Crail, Scotland … Rory McIlroy defended fellow Darren Clarke’s European leadership declaring even in defeat the team was jubilant for the work Clarke put into the side. Clarke’s 21-month reign as European Captain ended without any champagne shower as a USA side stormed to a 17 – 11 point success at Hazeltine. And while Clarke, was sure to be bitterly disappointed at not being able to deliver Europe four wins in succession, his outward demeanour did not show this. Europe managed to ...

Crail, Scotland … Talented Irish golfer Jack Hume has ended his impressive amateur career to turn professional at this week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and sign for International Sports Management. The 22-year-old Hume from Naas, who shares a house with 2014 Open Championship sensation Paul Dunne, ended his illustrious amateur career ranked No. 7 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings after an outstanding year that saw him win the South African Stroke Play and the European Nations Cup ...

Chaska, Minnesota … Rookie Thomas Pieters was a relative unknown when he was picked by Darren Clarke to be a member of the European Ryder Cup team. However, Pieters wrote his name into Ryder Cup history despite the disappointment on a losing European Team at Hazeltine. Pieters became the highest-scoring European born rookie in history, and since Europe joined the Tplayers in winning four of the five matches the Belgian contested. The 24-year stormed his way into Darren Clarke’s side as ...

Chaska, Minnesota … Europe will implore home fans not to follow the example of the Hazeltine hecklers when the Ryder Cup in played on the Le National course in Versailles in two years’ time. The barracking of Europe’s players by drunken American supporters led to several spectator ejections as Hazeltine turned into the rowdiest Ryder Cup since Brookline in 1999.Lee Westwood revealed he had been labelled “a turd” by one abusive fan during Sunday’s Singles – “that’s the ...

Chaska, Minnesota …  It’s timely on the final day of the 41st Ryder Cup to recall the very first Ryder Cup all of 89 years ago. And it is the Worcester Golf Club on the outskirts of Boston that will be forever remembered at the spiritual home of the Ryder Cup. And it was an enormous pleasure during the course of this year’s Deutsche Bank Championship to visit the club and meet with the current Worcestrer Head Professional, Alan Beldana. Though there had been two unofficial matches ...