Golf, by TourMiss

Dubliner Peter Lawrie had fellow Irishman and out-going European Tour CEO George O’Grady to thank for a three-under par 69 to lead the big contingent of Irish on the opening day of the BMW PGA Championship. Lawrie superbly recovered from a third hole double bogey to complete the remaining 15 holes in five under par in a score of a three under par 69. It left the affable Irishman trailing just four shots behind Italy’s Francesco Molinari who posted a sizzling seven under par 65. And ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy is staring at a second fine in just under two months after hurling a club during the opening round defence of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. McIlroy didn’t hide his frustration throwing his Nike 3-wood club some 30 yards after his second shot into the 17th hole flew the green on route to a very no frills one under par 71. It left McIlroy trailing six shots behind Ryder Cup winning team-mate Francesco Molinari who birdied his closing two holes in a seven-under par ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy should not be teeing up this week as defending BMW PGA defending champion. Of McIlroy’s then 17 worldwide wins as a professional winning at Wentworth a year ago was the most unlikeliest. Indeed McIlroy should not have been standing on the 18th green to be handed the gleaming silver trophy. McIlroy had not entered the tournament given the upheaval in his private life and bust-up in his intended marriage to Danish-born tennis ace Caroline Wozniacki. Rumours abound sport’s ...

Three time Tour winning Martin Laird tongue- in-cheek remarked the 2017 PGA Championship trophy should now be presented more than two years ahead of the Major to World No. 1 Rory McIlroy. Laird had completed his final round of the Wells Fargo Championship holing a superb 31-foot par putt in a round of 71 for a two-under par tally and on the Quail Hollow course that in two years will host the PGA Championship. The Scot, and along with his wife, was already well into the 90-minute drive back to their ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy was in a class all his own storming to a four shot lead and breaking his own course record on day three of the Wells Fargo Championship in suburban Charlotte, North Carolina. McIlroy posted a blistering 11-under 61, his lowest-ever as a pro, and move to 18-under par as he seeks to become the first two-time champion at Quail Hollow. The four-time Major winner also recorded a new Quail Hollow 54-hole low and also needed just 23 putts to leave his rivals choking in his dust ...

Two of Rory McIlroy’s best mates have been sharing in the glow of the four-time Major winners brilliant efforts at this week’s Wells Fargo Championship. Ricky McCormick and Mitchell Tweedie have already walked 72 holes of the suburban Charlotte course when you take-in Wednesday’s Pro-Am. And while Tweedie was in Sydney late in December 2013 to witness McIlroy capture the Australian Open today’s blistering new Quail Hollow course record setting third round 61 that handed McIlroy ...

Tiger Woods turns his attention today from the poker tables at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas to the exclusive Shadow Creek Golf Club for the second day of his 2015 Tiger Jam. The 14-time Major winner sat down yesterday with poker’s all-time greats and ‘Tiger’s Poker Night’ to raise money for the Tiger Woods Foundation, an organization that helps children disrupt the cycle of poverty through education. Among the poker stars present is 13-time World Series of Poker champion Phil ...