Golf, by TourMiss

David Law tees-up for only a second occasion in five years at this week’s AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open looking to make a sizable monetary deposit ahead of the up-coming Festive Season break. Law, 33 has competed on the Indian Ocean island just once before and that being in 2019 and also in his last event of the year, some eight months after his maiden DP World Tour triumph in Australia and in his maiden Tour season. While this week’s AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open is also the last of the ...

For all its pre-match hype the much-anticipated ‘The Showdown’ between two of the PGA Tour’s best against two rival LIV Golf stars ended with little fanfare, little excitement and resulting in a one-sided letdown. It was first in meen’s professional golf with two of the PGA Tour’s best players in Scheffler and McIlroy up against two of the best LIV Golf stars in Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau at the Shadow Creek course outside of Las Vegas. There really just one ...

One of the great delights of living or visiting Sydney is the dozen and dozens of pristine beaches to the north and south of Australia’s largest city. So, when it comes to golden sand beaches located right on your front doorstep then Sydney has to be the envy of the world as there is close to 100 Pacific Ocean coastline beaches in a 100-kilometre stretch from Palm Beach in the north of the city to Garie Beach in the south. Indeed the entire coastline of the state of New South Wales (NSW) boasts ...

Scotland’s David Drysdale produced a stunning back nine turnaround in his fortunes on day one of the five-round 2025 Asian Tour qualifier at Hua Hin in Thailand. Drysdale, 49 was out off the 10th tee on the host A/B course at the Lake View Resort but soon was back-pedalling in posting a horror four-over ‘7’ at the par-3 12th hole in his quest to regain his Asian Tour card after a disappointing 2024 season. It got no better for the affable Scot in dropping shots at the 14th and ...

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler reckons that Tuesday’s ‘The Showdown’ taking place under lights at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas is about the bigger picture still sadly hurting men’s professional golf. “Ideally, I think the end goal here is to get the game of golf back together,” said Scheffler. We’ve had endless ‘made for TV’ showdowns in the game of golf but there’s never been nothing like the ‘unpublished’ reasons for ‘The ...

Denver-based Scot Martin Laird horribly tripled his last hole and then withdrew following a second round eight-over par 78 at the 2025 PGA Tour qualifier on the Sawgrass Country Club course in Florida. Laird, who turns 42 on December 29, is a four-time winner on the PGA Tour but has not tasted success since capturing a second Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in 2020. The Scot has managed to retain his PGA Tour card every year since his full season Tour debut in 2008 and with this season’s ...

The Scottish trio of David Drysdale, Marc Warren and Ollie Roberts will tee-up among 208 players competing from December 17th to 21st on the host Lake View Resort and Golf Club (A & B Course) & Lake View Resort and Golf Club (C & D Course) at Hau Hin in Thailand and looking to earn 2025 Asian Tour membership. The goal for the trio will be to finish amoung the leading 35 that will gain their Asian Tour card. Drysdale is teeing-up for a second time in three years after successfully securing ...