Golf, by TourMiss

Nineteen past winners of the Emirates Australian Open gathered on the first tee at The Australian today to swap yarns and reflect on past glory. Then they each hit a drive down the first fairway and posed for a group photograph as the national championship approaches its 100th playing. The Open dates to 1904 and its centenary was celebrated in 2004, but because several years were lost to the wars, this is the 100th time it has been contested. Appropriately, it is at the original venue from 1904. Reigning ...

  Double Major winning Jordan Spieth will play alongside English drawcard Lee Westwood and fellow former champion Geoff Ogilvy in the marquee morning group for the first round of the Australian Open on Thursday. He tees off at 7.05am AEDT as he looks to back up his runaway win last year. Former Masters champion Adam Scott will hit off just after midday with countryman John Senden and big-hitting Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts. Veteran Peter Senior, fresh off his remarkable Australian Masters victory ...

It is 18 years since a then relatively unknown Englishman pulled the Australian Open victory rug out from under the feet of Australia’s greatest-ever golfer and the then World No. 1 ranked Greg Norman. Lee Westwood was just 24 years of age when he went head-to-head with Norman over four extra play-off holes to win the coveted Stonehaven Trophy in his second appearance in Australia’s premier event. There was first stunned silence before genuine applause for the Worksop-born Westwood whose victory ...

  Jordan Speith, unlike fellow Masters and Australian Open champion Adam Scott, is already warming at the thought of walking onto among the USA Team at next August’s Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Scott has been very out-spoken and not at all interested in competing in the Olympic Games. In contrast Speith, who is Sydney for this week’s 100th Australian Open, seemingly is counting the days to the Summer Games and golf’s return to the Olympic arena since 1924. ”Just ...

World No. 1 Jordan Speith admits it will be difficult to repeat the success in 2016 he’s enjoyed in the past twelve months. Speith has returned to Sydney to defend Thursday’s starting Australian Open at The Australian Club. It was his victory on the same golf course a year ago, and capped by a blistering final round course record setting 63, that kick-stated a run of remarkable success for the quietly-spoken Texan. The Dallas-born Speith then went onto to win the following week’s Tiger Woods ...

Shane Lowry knows all too well a good showing in the EurAsia Cup could lead to him also representing Europe in the Ryder Cup. Lowry will be confirmed this morning UK time (TUES) by the European Tour as a member of Darren Clarke’s EurAsia European Team to tackle a Jeev Milkha Singh led Asian team next January in Malaysia. The 10-man European Team has been chosen among the leading place-getters after Sunday’s conclusion to the Race to Dubai. However making themselves unavailable is the likes of ...

Peter Senior has shown that age is no barrier winning the UNIQLO Masters at Huntingdale Golf Club. Twenty-four years after he first won the Gold Jacket and 20 years after he last slipped on the iconic blazer, Peter Senior has once again emerged victorious winning by two shots with a tournament total 8-under 276. Playing solid golf all week, Senior entered the final day tied third alongside Michael Sim, John Senden and Matthew Guyatt. Right from his first tee shot Senior looked the man to beat, opening ...