Golf, by TourMiss

Danny Willett has thrown the Race to Dubai Final Series gauntlet down at the feet of Rory McIlroy and detemined to push him all the way to the victory tape Willett, 28 is lying second on the money list some Euro 291,000 adrift of McIlroy but then Willett can wipe out the deficit and go ahead of the four-time Major winning McIlroy with a fourth place finish later next week. And if Willett needed any incentive it is the superb finish he enjoyed a year ago on the Colin Montgomerie designed course. There’s ...

Top Danish golfer Anders Hansen ended a 20-year European Tour career with just one minor regret that he did not represent Europe in a Ryder Cup. Hansen turned his back on a long professional career last Sunday after posting a final round 69 to share 22nd place in the Portugal Masters at Vilamoura. David Williams, Chairman of the European Tour Board of Directors then presented the 45-year old Dane with a gift pack of a wine decanter and wine on the occasion of Hansen’s 420th and final Tour event. The ...

Scotland’s Craig Lee will undertake an 11,000 mile round trip to Hong Kong buoyed by sharing sixth place in the Portugal Masters so as to be assured of earning full 2016 European Tour membership. The Callaway staff player finished the best of the seven Scots posting the second equal lowest final round of a six-under par 65 for a 12-under par on the Oceanico Victoria course. England’s Andy Sullivan led from start to finish storming his way to a nine shot victory and become the first playerthis ...

Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke agreed Spain’s Alvaro Quiros was right to single out Tour tortoises when he controversially labelled Frenchman Gary Stal a ‘cheater’ on a tense second day at the at the Portugal Masters. Quiros called for Chief Referee Andy McFee to attend the scorer’s hut straight after the Spaniard signed for a round of 68 on the Oceanico Victoria course. Quiros and McFee were locked in discussion before being joined by Dane Thomas Bjorn, and Chairman of the Tournament ...

The second round of the Portugal Masters was overshadowed with controversy as Spain’s Alvaro Quiros accusing his French-born playing partner Gary Stal a ‘cheater’. Now before we go any further Quiros is not accusing the reigning Abu Dhabi HSBC champion of breaking the rule. Quiros, whose first language is of course Spanish, could have chosen a better word. However there was no hiding the normally affable Quiros being livid calling for Chief Referee Andy McFee to attend to the scorer’s hut ...

Unless Damien McGrane captures this week’s Portugal Masters then the Vilamoura event will be the 44-year old’s final European Tour tournament. McGrane joins Anders Hansen, and a year older than the Irishman and with the Dane to end a 20-year European Tour career also this week on the Algarve. However McGrane only began competing full-time on the European Tour at age 31 though he did make a first appearance in 1995 and this week plays his 397 Tour event. The Kells golfer has earned more ...

Rookie pro Paul Dunne continues to ignite the European Tour kick-starting his Portugal Masters by holing a second shot for eagle on day one at Vilamoura. The 22-year old Greystones golfer sent a 104-yard wedge into the bottom of the cup and then holed a 40-foot second hole birdie in an eventual round of a three under par 68 in ideal conditions on the Oceanico Victoria course. When poor light halted play and leaving 14 players still to complete their round Dunne was sharing 22nd place and just four ...