Golf, by TourMiss

  Belgium’s big-hitting Nicolas Colsaerts stormed off the Monza grid with eight birdies in succession to enjoy a two shot lead on day one of the 72° OPEN D’ITALIA presented by DAMIANI. Colsaerts was off to a slow start from the tenth, parring his first four holes before rounding the back straight of the Milano Golf Club course with five consecutive birdies from the 14th to the 18th holes that saw him make the turn in 31. He then kept the foot to the metal with further birdies ...

Rookie Gavin Moynihan tees up in this week’s Italian Open, and his first event as a pro, with the endorsement of Ryder Cup Captain’s Paul McGinley and Darren Clarke ringing his ears. Moynihan, 20 has been afforded an invitation to contest the event on the Milano GC course laid out right alongside the famed Monza Autodrome and venue for last fortnight’s Italian F1 Grand Prix. The Island Club attached Moynihan arrived at Monza on the back of helping steer GB & I to a record-setting Walker Cup success last Sunday. McGinley had been present at Royal Lytham and St. Annes helping motivate the GB & I ...

Rookie Scot Bradley Neil is hopeful in finally getting his pro career out of first gear at this week’s Italian Open in Monza. The 19-year old Neil accepted an invitation to compete in what is only his third European Tour event since turning professional straight after June’s U.S. Open, and on the Milano Golf Club course located right alongside the famed Monza Autodrome. In fact, the competitors access the golf course via a road running underneath both ...

Rookie pro Gavin Moynihan is not unlike his motor racing colleagues on the opposite side of the tall boundary fence separating the Milano Golf Club course from the Monza Autodrome, and home each year to the Italian F1 Grand Prix. All they want to see is the starter’s green flag. It is very much the case for the 20-year old Moynihan who has been waiting for this day to come for some time. The Island Golf Club attached golfer waited his time to contest last week’s Walker Cup and now after ...

Joshua White went deep into red numbers with a sparkling five-under 66 to surge to the top of the leaderboard as young Rayhan Thomas kept his hopes alive of becoming the first amateur to win a MENA Golf Tour event, going into the final round of the Dubai Creek Open on Tuesday. Playing in the day’s very first group, White took advantage of slightly more receptive conditions at Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club, going bogey-free to reach eight-under, one ahead of Austria’s Florian Praegant ...

Double Major winning Zach Johnson has paid FedEx Cup leader Jason Day the ultimate compliment ahead of this week’s BMW Championship in Chicago. Johnson and Day have become the best of friends and well prior to the pair capturing the closing two Major Championships of the season. Indeed Johnson was one of the first to embrace Day when he returned to competition at last month’s Barclays Championship and ahead of the Columbus-based Australian storming to the top of the Play-Off Series with his six-shot ...

England amateur golfers Aaron Saddleton and Mark Avis beat odds of 25-million-to-one to ace the same hole while playing against each other at the Royal Norwich GC. Following their magnificent achievement, the BOSS Watches H1Club has decided to recognise the double feat by rewarding each golfer with a specially-commissioned, commemorative timepiece. The remarkable double feat occurred on the 135-yard, par-three ninth, in a two-v-two match between Sprowston Manor GC and Royal Norwich. Saddleton, 29, ...