Golf, by TourMiss

Jason Dufner hosted a gathering of 17 former PGA Champions at Churchill Downs Race course on Tuesday night. Dufner’s four-course menu included green tomatoes with pimento cheese and jumbo lump crab, and the main course of ‘Butt Rubbed’ Filet Mignon. Now the choice of ‘Butt Rubbed’ Filet Mignon brought a smile to the face of many of Dufner’s supporters as it was the scenes in the seconds after last year’s Oak Hill success of Dufner grabbing the backside of his wife ...

Tiger Woods has got used to dealing with the media throughout his illustrious career that when he walked off after nine holes of the Valhalla course this afternoon there was so many of the golfing media waiting for him that he readily agreed  to entertain questions before heading off to walk the back nine of this week’s PGA Championship host venue. Woods had joined good friend and newly-appointed Ryder Cup vice-captain Steve Stricker along with former PGA Champion Davis Love 111 plus Harris ...

Fellow British Open champ Darren Clarke likened Rory McIlroy to a runaway train as the World No. 1 hurtles full-steam towards a second straight Major victory in this week’s PGA Championship. Clarke managed to halt McIlroy’s locomotive albeit for one hole and not having to hand over any money to McIlroy following their practice round friendly yesterday morning (WED local time) on the Vahalla course in Louisville, Kentucky. McIlroy spoke last Sunday night after capturing the Bridgestone Invitational ...

Tiger Woods played a nine-hole practice round revealing it was a newer injury in his lower back that was the cause for him withdrawing after nine holes of last week’s defence of his WGC – Bridgestone Invitational. He walked from the Valhalla ninth hole, and his first appearance on the course since winning the 2000 PGA Championship indicating the Sacrum bone in his lower back dislodged and pinched a nerve in falling backwards into a bunker during the early stages of last week’s final ...

The staging of the 2016 PGA Championship will shift to late July in two years time to accommodate golf returning to the Summer Olympics. The move was announced by the PGA of America, which will stage the 2016 edition July 28-31 at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey. The British Open is set for July 14-17 at Royal Troon, leaving only 11 days between the final two majors of the year. The 2016 Olympics will commence five days after the staging of the 2016 PGA and set to be staged from August ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy confirmed he will defend his Australian Open title later this year in Sydney. McIlroy came from a shot down with  one hole to play to defeat hometown favourite and reigning Masters champion Adam Scott by a shot at Royal Sydney and claim a first victory in 12 months since capturing the 2012 European Tour season-ending DP World Tour Championship. And it was his victory along the shores of Sydney Harbour that McIlroy credited the form he has displayed the past few months in ...

Ireland’s Shane Lowry will this week be making his third appearance in the season-ending PGA  Championship at Valhalla in Louisville, Kentucky. The Clara golfer spent last week warming up also for his Valhalla debut playing at the K Club course and venue for the 2006 Ryder Cup before it moved to Valhalla in 2008. Lowry spent Tuesday playing the front nine in the company of former 2008 PGA Champion Padraig Harrington. “I played with my coach Neil Manchin off the back tees and Mt. Juliet was ...