Golf, by TourMiss

Australia’s newest Major Champion surprised many when he revealed he arranged for an MRI after ‘tweaking’ his back earlier this week while bending down to remove a box from under his motor home The injury forced Day out of Wednesday’s Barclays Championship Pro-Am and also meant cancelling a first formal press conference since his PGA Championship victory. Day’s management team arranged for the 27-year old to visit the nearby St. Peter’s Hospital in New Bruswick ...

A new putter and new outlook landed Russell Knox well into contention and just a shot from the lead on day one of the Barclays Championship. Knox also drew well on the ‘Scottish connection’ given the Plainfield course was designed by Dornoch-born Donald Ross in shooting a four under par 66. It put Knox into a five-way share of fifth place but only a shot back from the leading foursome that includes double Masters winning Bubba Watson. Knox said:  “I have very hard on myself the past two weeks ...

This latest trip to the U.S. continued on a nostalgic theme with a visit to a very special house in Rockville, Maryland. Three weeks ago I attended a Peter Fampton concert on the outskirts of Cleveland and some 37 years after attending the ‘Frampton Comes Alive Tour’ concert in Sydney. A week ago Tour Miss and I arrived at the front  gates of Indianapolis Motor Speedway and 36 years since good friend, Joe Sroba and myself had done the same but on a much colder November’s day in ...

Padraig Harrington will continue to play through the pain barrier but also needing to make the halfway cut in this week’s starting Barclays Championship in New Jersey. Harrington remained in the States this past week with his family and splitting his time between relaxing in Orlando and visiting New York. He tee’s up in the first of four FedEx Cup Play Off Series events lying 87th among the top-125 on the money list and needing to be among the top-100 at the close of the event this week being ...

Russell Knox will draw on this week’s Barclays Championship ‘Scottish Connection’ to improve his eventual standing in the FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. Knox will tee-up in the first of the four Play-Off events lying 44th on the money list and certainly assured of playing the opening trio. The Scot’s big goal is to be inside the top-30 at the close of the BMW Championship on September 20th to be assured of teeing-up for a first time in the season-closing Tour Championship on September 24th in ...

Newly-crowned PGA Champion Jason Day insists it would the ‘icing on the cake’ should he capture the FedEX Cup and then unseat World No. 1 Jordan Spieth in the votiing as PGA Tour ‘Player of the Year’. Day is returning to competition at this week’s Barclays Championship in Edison, New Jersey after his historic three stroke success over Spieth at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. The 27-year old Australian intends contesting all four FedEx Cup Play-Off Series events and is hopeful, despite ...

It was an inauspicious return to competition for newly-crowned PGA Championship winner Jason Day when forced to push a broken down golf cart. Day had just spent a couple of hours on the Plainfield Country Club practice range in Edison, New Jersey and venue for this week’s Barclays Championship when he boarded an eight-seater motorised cart back to the clubhouse. However broken down around 50 yards short of its destination and with Day and other in the cart happily obliging the driver by pushing ...