Golf, by TourMiss

The last time Louis Oosthuizen was delayed on route to Malaysia he captured the 2012 Maybank Malaysian Open title. Well the same has happened four years on with the South African taking 36 hours to travel from Florida via New York and then Dubai before arriving into Kuala Lumpur at 9am local time Tuesday ahead of this year’s renamed Maybank Championship.. The delay meant missing the Pro-Am but then did afford the 2010 Open Champion plenty of time to ponder – and perhaps even practise – ...

It could have been so easy to jump back onto the Pacific Highway for the straightforward three hour drive back to Sydney. I had just spent a wonderful few days, in between Christmas and New Year, in Port Macquarie with long-time good friend Brian Johnson and his wife, Suzie. It had been raining the day before and the weather, while muggy, was still a little inclement but that was not about to spoil my plans. So I thought, ‘No’ I’m going to take my time in heading back to Sydney. I’ve ...

It has taken nearly 20 years but Qatar will have only a second golf course when the Qatar International Golf Club opens later this year. And unlike many other new golf courses around the world, the Qatar International Golf Club will be unique and not for the sheer size of the work being undertaken at Education City. I still remember vividly reporting in 1999 the second, and what is now annual, Qatar Masters at the Doha Golf Club that had opened two years earlier on the then very outskirts of the ...

One of the initiatives suggested earlier this year by Rory McIlroy in improving the appeal of golf was playing the ancient game under lights. Well the four-time Major winner has got his wish as he will play an exhibition match against American Rickie Fowler on June 7th at the Detriot Golf Club, and in the week prior the U.S. Open in Pittsburg. Quicken Loans is finalising details for a match involving McIlroy and Fowler a week before the US Open, a person familiar with the negotiations said on Monday. Not ...

Dalmohoy’s Jamie McLeary is celebrating after earning his highest European Tour result and a bigger main Tour payout in finishing T7th at the Tshwane Open in South Africa. McIleary, 34 carded a second straight 69 for a four under par tally on the Pretoria Country Club course. Past Masters winner Charl Schwartzel put daylight in second place blitzing the field by to win by eight shots with a closing 63 for a 16-under par tally. It was Schwartzel’s 11th European Tour victory, a second this new ...

South African Charl Schwartzel stormed his way to an eighth Tour success on home soil with an eight shot victory in the Tshwane Open to claim his second title of the season. Schwartzel, competing in his first event of the New Year, posted a seven-under-par 63 winning with ease at 16 under and clinch an 11th Tour tile and an eighth European Tour win on South African soil. Denmark’s Jeff Winther finished second on eight under, with Anthony Michael another two shots further back in third. Schwartzel, ...

One of the most talked about new golfing layouts in Australia is ready to reign among the world’s most majestic golfing locations. Not since the opening of Barnbougle Dunes on the Tasmanian mainland has a new course attracted as much interest as Ocean Dunes. Ocean Dunes is located on King Island virtually in the middle of Bass Strait that divides the Australian mainland from the ‘Apple Isle’ of Tasmania. The island is on the north-west tip of Tasmania and was discovered in 1799 ...