Golf, by TourMiss

Colin Montgomerie was honoured a lavish bar-b-que get together last night on the occasion of his 600th European Tour event. The Maxx Royal Hotel hosted guests in the clubhouse of the golf course that bears Monty’s name and surprised the Scot in wheeling out not one but three cakes to make up the name 6 0 0. Joining Monty for the photo shoot was his wife, Gaynor along with Cahit Sahin (left), General Manager of the Montgomerie Maxx Royal club and on the right of the photo is the owner of the ...

Australia’s Wade Ormsby is set to celebrate his 200th European Tour event in style after muscling his way to a one stroke lead on day three of the Turkish Airlines Open in Belek. Ormsby, 34 brilliantly eagled his ninth hole in round of a four under par 68 to move one stroke clear of his rivals at 12-under par on the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course. The Adelaide-born golfer, who has won since turning pro in 2001, took full advantage of Ian Poulter’s indifferent display after the Englishman let slip ...

Ian Poulter squandered a commanding six shot second round lead to be one stroke behind heading to the final day of the Turkish Airlines Open in Belek. Australia’s Wade Ormsby took full advantage of Poulter’s problems superbly eagling his ninth hole in a round of 68 and move to 12-under par on the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course. Poulter ended his second round in the storm-affected event with a 10-under par total and six shots clear of five players including Ormsby. But after a bogey to start his ...

Chilean golfer Felipe Aguilar was slapped with a four shot penalty following the completion to his second round in the Turkish Airlines Open in Belek. Aguilar had replaced a club in his bag in between a suspension of play in the second round on Friday and the restart to the round on Saturday morning. The Santiago-born golfer, who turned 40 last week, had moved to been three under par through 13 holes when play was halted and under Rule 4-4 he was penalised two strokes for ‘each hole which any breach ...

Ian Poulter had time to feed the ducks on route to forging his way to a three shot lead on day two of the storm-affected Turkish Airlines Open in Belek. Poulter came from one shot off the lead heading into the second round and had snatched six birdies and had just one bogey before thunderstorms forced play to be abandoned in the $US 7m Final Four Series event. There was light-hearted moment on the ninth hole of the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course when a few ducks emerged from one of the many hazards. Poulter ...

Former Open Champion Paul Lawrie has confirmed the staging next year of the Race to Dubai 2015 Saltire Energy Match-Play Championship to be staged from July 30th to August 2nd at the Murcar Golf Links in Aberdeeen. The event will  be a 64-player tournament carrying a prize purse of Euro 1m. This maiden tournament was penciled in for the same week in June as the US Open but is now to be held two week’s after the Open Championship. The new event will now be the fourth men’s event to be ...

Victorious Ryder Cup winning rookie Victor Dubuisson was in need of urgent on-course medical treatment on day two of the Turkish Airlines Open. The French golfing ace suffers from allergies and was overcome with a nose bleed from his right nostril before play in the $US 7m event was halted at 12.04pm local time with the threat of thunderstorms in the region of the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course at Belek. England’s Ian Poulter had picked up five shots in 14 holes to move one shot clear on the field ...