Golf, by TourMiss

Fellow PGA Championship winner Tiger Woods said he could not be more proud of Australia’s Jason Day who finally broke through to win a first major last Sunday at Whistling Straits. Woods and Day have become good friends in recent years and that was no more evident  during the opening two rounds of last month’s Open Championship at St. Andrews. Louis Oosthuizen was a virtual ‘passenger’ for the two days when it came to conversation with Woods and Day chatting at every opportunity. And ...

Aussies continue to rule the golf world! Two days after Jason Day won a first Major Championship and about three hours drive south to suburban Chicago and 19-year old Victorian Brett Coletta posted a 36-hole total of 7-under-par 133 to win medalist honours in the weather-delayed stroke-play qualifying of the 2015 U.S. Amateur Championship at Olympia Fields Country Club. Coletta’s 4-under-par 66 on the North Course Tuesday placed him one stroke ahead of David Oraee, of Greeley, Colo., who shot ...

Tiger Woods is not the only player contesting this week’s Wyndham Championship for a first occasion in their playing career. England’s Luke Donald is making his debut in Greensboro and like Woods he needs a good showing this week if he is to qualify for the up-coming FedeEx Cup Play-Off Series. The Chicago-based Brit is right on the cusp for making the Play-Offs in 124th place and needing to at least make the cut this week on the Sedgefield Country Club course. “This is an old school ...

Tiger Woods found himself upstaged by his caddy Joe LaCava during today’s Wyndham Championship here in Greensboro, North Carolina. Woods is contesting the event for a first time in his career which may sounds surprising but then three years ago he teed-up in the 2012 Honda Classic for a first occasion. Woods got his first look at the course on Wednesday afternoon when he played a front nine practice round with 2016 Ryder Cup Captain, Davis Love 111. However Woods played a full 18 holes today ...

The past two weeks travelling the States to report on golf has very been a reminder for me back to the 70s and including Monday in celebrating my birthday. I made mention that while Tour Miss and I were in Ohio for the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational I attended a Peter Frampton concert some 20-minutes drive north of Akron. The first and only time I had been to Peter Frampton concert was in 1978 in Sydney when Frampton’s LP – Frampton Comes Alive – was the then largest selling ...

There is lucky sausages and there is lucky sausages but I was surprised to find a meat shop in nearby Port Washington bearing my name – Bernie’s Meats. Check out the pics and thanks to everyone ‘back home’, including young Nikki and Jamie in chilly Bathurst, for the warm birthday wishes. I may just decide to throw a sausage on the ole barbie over here in what has been heatwave conditions in upstate Wisconsin.

This week’s PGA Championship is not only the fifth anniversary of my first visit to Whislting Straits but it also marks five years I first visited – The Bog Golf Club. Dear friend and colleague Karl McGinty and myself inspected The Bog during the 2010 PGA Championship. Karl and I had commented on the ‘Come and visit the Bog Golf Course’ sign each day as we drove north to Whistling Straits and then one morning we took the short drive to the course. However five years on, and ...