Golf, by TourMiss

First it was missing out on a pair of ‘Players 2015’ commemorative cuff links and this week it was missing on the Pro-Am leading prize of a £350 X-Box. Tournament Director, Jamie Birkmyer was waiting for the Dubliner after his second successive round of 67 that put the current World No. 55 ranked player into seventh place at eight under par on day three of the BMW PGA Championship. Lowry was runner-up last year to World No. 1 Rory McIlroy and now with a round to play surely will be entertaining ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy’s efforts to play five events in succession back-fired when he easily missed the cut in the BMW PGA Championship. McIlroy found too many potholes along the famed ‘Burma Road’ course horribly posting a six-over par 78 for an uncharacteristic five over par tally. It was less a week ago McIlroy shot a career-best 61 on route to victory in the Wells Fargo Championship but in competing in Europe for a first time this year the four-time Major Champion was very much short ...

Australia’s top two full-time golf journalists were caught last week ‘rocking’ the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow. Andrew Both and your esteemed editor have covered golf on both sides of ‘The Pond’ for more than three decades with Andrew having worked the PGA Tour and myself concentrating on the European Tour. In between we have bumped into each other more times than we can remember and with our latest get together last week in suburban Charlotte. So way better ...

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 ...