Golf, by TourMiss

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has a new hero in young Cork born Sean Reddy. With thanks to the Irish Examiner, and one of my contributing newspapers, there is the story of McIlroy meeting the eight year old during his visit to London’s Nike mega store on Monday night. er’s autograph. Reddy, a pupil at Gaelscoil Uí Drisceoil in Glanmire, Cork, was discovered by Nike executives after taking a few swings in a golf simulator at Niketown in London. Reddy had a whirlwind few days last weekend ...

Padraig Harrington’s chances of qualifying for next month’s US Open shortened after a right shoulder injury forced him out after just two holes of the BMW PGA Championship. Harrington, and currently ranked 83rd in the world, has to rely on qualifying for the US Open at next Monday’s 36-hole qualifier at Walton Heath or finishing top-three at next week’s Irish Open or the following week’s FedEx St. Jude Classic in Memphis. Harrington had been in doubt all week with the injury he sustained ...

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 ...