Golf, by TourMiss

The Asian Tour’s 2023 season will come full circle next month when it holds its 25th and final event of the year in Saudi Arabia. More than 10 months after starting the season in the desert kingdom, and venturing to 18 different nations, the Asian Tour will proudly return to Saudi for the hosting of Saudi Open in Riyadh. The top-80 players will tee-up and with the leading money-list 65 retaining full status for next year Those that do keep their cards will be back at the same venue little more ...

Scotland’s David Drysdale is confident of teeing-up in next fortnight’s final event of his rookie Asian Tour season. Drysdale, 48, was forced to withdraw from Thursday’s opening round of the Tawian Glass Taifong Open due to a reoccurrence of an old neck injury. The Callaway-attached Drysdale battled through 15 holes in the penultimate event of the year before withdrawing from the host Taifong club. “I was gutted to have to retire and it was an old niggling neck injury”, ...

You can’t blame Robert MacIntyre frankness and not hiding his feelings in twice using the ‘pile of poo’ emoji on his ‘X’ account after his ‘Down Under’ quest to at least secure a Masters invitation nose-dive as he missed the cut in the ISPS Handa Australian Open in Sydney. MacIntyre posted rounds of 70 and a horror second day 77, that included just one birdie but also five bogeys and a double-bogey in his four-over tally to end his year six shots shy of playing all four ...

With just a month to a promised agreement in golf’s ‘potential alliance’ and reports grow that golf will head into the New Year with Jay Monahan standing down from his role as PGA Tour Commissioner. Monahan, 53, has been under attack from both sides in the countdown to December 31st when the golf world hopefully will learn of the nature of how the broken bridges in the men’s professional game will be mended. If that should take place, as all golf followers want to see, there’s more than ...

After one of his toughest years on the PGA Tour, Scotland’s Russell Knox has decided to enter Q-school a week prior to Christmas in the goal of securing one of five 2024 PGA Tour membership cards. One of the nicest guys in pro golf endured a poorest season this past year, contesting a whopping 37 events though securing a best finish of T21st in the 2022 RSM Classic, as part of the 2022/23 schedule but then losing full players at the recent season-ending 2023 RSM Classic. Knox played all four ...

It is 10-years this Friday – December 1st – since Rory McIlroy remarkably kept alive a then five-year run of having won at least one tournament a year. He did so in what was McIlroy’s penultimate event of 2013 and in his first year as a fully-fledged Nike golfer, claiming a one-shot victory over the overwhelming home favourite and reigning Masters champion Adam Scott in the Emirates Australian Open at the Royal Sydney club in Sydney. Coming-up the last Scott led by a shot from ...

Climbing the famed Sydney Harbour Bridge is a must for many on a visit to Australia’s first city but not for Robert MacIntyre. The top-ranked Scot is in Sydney for this week’s joint hosting of both the men’s and women’s Australian Open, and being held on both The Australian and The Lakes Golf Clubs. MacIntyre’s family has flown out from Scotland to support their Ryder Cup winning son as he seeks to become the first Scot in 128-years to lift the Stonehaven Cup when ...