Golf, by TourMiss

Scotland’s top-ranked Scot Martin Warren has returned to competition after a month’s break determined to end his year receiving a standard white envelope bearing a Masters logo and postmarked – Augusta, GA. Warren has played competitively since finishing mid-field in the defence of his Made In Denmark title. But then the current World No. 56 hasn’t been idle enjoying time with his young family but also playing social games at Loch Lomond and Western Gailes. Warren also is lying 16th on the Race to Dubai and clearly headed for his best finish in a decade on the Tour after a career ...

Visiting American has already been spoilt in just a handful of days on his first visit to Germany. First it was a German  beer on Monday in Munich and then today, and on the eve of the Porsche European Open, the current World No. 42 got to take one of the sponsors products for a test drive on the autobahn. “There’s no way I could drive this car on the freeways back home in the States,” he joked. “So it was great to be able to take the Porsche for a drive on the autobahn this ...

While David Drysdale gets used to walking with crutches he’s quietly hopeful of contesting next week’s lucrative Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The popular Scot sustained a three centimetre tear in the calf muscle of his right leg when walking up the slope of a bunker at the first hole to start his third round in last week’s 72nd Italian Open at Monza. The 40-year old said at the time the pain was so intense he felt he had been shot in the leg. Drysdale underwent an MRI on his leg in Edinburgh on Monday and yesterday (TUES) visited leading Scottish physiotherapist, Stuart Barton who spent a dozen years as physio for the Scotland rugby lead. Under Barton’s guidance, Drysdale underwent the first of a series of intensive physio sessions ...

Sweden’s Rikard Karlberg is the European Tour’s newest champion in capturing last week’s 72nd Italian Open. However the Swede is also the Tour’s equal top-ranked ‘Tortoise’ after being fined £2,000 for slow play last week at Monza. It means Karlberg who won £181,054 in defeating Martin Kaymer in a play-off has had to hand back £2,000 to the Tour. Karlberg was fined for slow play during the first round at Monza and now joins Paul Peterson and Danny Willett atop ...

Australia’s Jason Day admitted his status as golf’s new world number one had not yet sunk in after he clinched top spot by winning the BMW Championship in Chicago on Sunday. The US PGA Championship winner succeeded Rory McIlroy at the top of the rankings after a final round of 69 earned him a six-shot victory at Conway Farms. It was Day’s fourth success in five events since the disappointment of missing out in a play-off in The Open at St. Andrews as well as capturing a fifth victory ...

Peter Lawrie now faces five weeks of uncertainty with a goal in wrapping-up his card for next season falling short at the Italian Open in Monza. Lawrie needed a top-five finish to move from his current 121st Race to Dubai standing and inside the top-110 but he had to settle for a share of 14th in posting a final round 68 for a 15-under par tally. The Dubliner’s goal of securing an entry into this week’s European Open at Bad Griesbach, and to the east of Munich, fell four shots shy of qualifying top-10. And ...

David Drysdale will learn tomorrow (Monday) if his season will continue or if he’ll be on the sidelined for the the remainder of the year. The Borders golfing ace is set to undergo an MRI in Edinburgh on his injured right leg. Drysdale sustained the injury at the very first hole in Saturday’s Italian Open third round at Monza. He had played a bunker shot and was climbing out of the bunker when he felt his calf muscle ‘pop’. “The pain was so bad it felt like I had been shot in the leg,” ...