Golf, by TourMiss

The sight of Rory McIlroy wearing red pants on the final day of the Australian Open failed to fire the World No. 1. McIlroy looked delighted to get off the Australian Club course after rounds of 69. 69, 76 and 72 for  two over par tally and a then share of 15th place in the defence of the Stonehaven Trophy. The four-time Major winner will head to Sydney Airport and a flight to the US for a series of Rory McIlroy Foundation dinners in New York this coming week having ended his year on a disappointing ...

Between them they captured six Open Championships. Peter Thomson is one of the immortals of golf having won five Open Championships including three in succession from 1954 to 1956. Fellow Australian Kel Nagle, and golf’s oldest living Major Champion, won the 1960 Centenary Open at St. Andrews and denying Arnold Palmer who had captured the Masters and US Open that same year, and who would win the 1961 and 1962 Open. On December 21st Kel will turn 94 years of age. Joining the Australian golfing ...

If you’re looking for the definition of a roller coaster round of golf you only had to follow World No. 1 Rory McIlroy around the Australian Club course on day three of the Emirates Australian Open. McIlroy commenced his round after a pair of opening 69s to be at four under par and just one shot from the lead. But what then transpired over the next four-and-a-half hours was pure golfing drama and leaving McIlroy no chance of joining Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player as the only non-Australian born ...

There was a fitting tribute from the Emirates Australian Open and also the Open Championship to the late Phil Hughes at the Australian Club this morning. Hughes, a former Australian Test cricketer, never regained consciousness after being struck in the neck by a cricket ball in a domestic match at the nearby Sydney Cricket Ground. The 25-year old, who had been hoping to regain his place in the team for next week’s Test match against India, passed away on Thursday after failing to recover from ...

There was a double dose of water torture for World No. 1 Rory McIlroy on route to ending the day in a share of second place at four under par day two of the Emirates Australian Open at the Australian Club in Sydney. McIlroy went into the second round well placed at two under par but after two opening pars he posted back-to-back bogeys including putting his tee shot at the long par three fourth hole into the water from where he took a bogey. The World No. 1 did bounce back with a birdie at the par ...

World No. 3 Adam Scott cut a swath through the field on day two of the Emirates Australian Open with a then new course record at the Australian Club in Sydney. After starting with a horror three over par 74 the 2013 Masters winner bounced back with a five-under par 66 to be right in frame to make amends in losing out on being handed the Stonehaven Trophy a year ago. Scott headed to lunch just one behind Jordan Spieth who stumbled with three birdies but also four bogeys in a score of a one over par ...

Ireland’s leading sports radio reporter Denis Kirwan and myself were up before sunrise last Saturday morning. Thanks to Viren Varma, the Press Officer for Golf in Dubai, we had the pleasure of playing the Faldo Course at the Emirates Golf Club in Dubai. We were due to tee off at 8.20am but given we both were working at the DP World Tour Championship, Denis and I were concerned of not being delayed on the golf course what with the pressure of covering the third round of the final European Tour ...