Golf, by TourMiss

EXCLUSIVE .... Top-Scot Robert MacIntyre has arrived in La Quinta eagerly looking forward to building on last week’s ‘rusty’ PGA Tour career opener in Hawaii. MacIntyre birdied the last in a closing round 67 to finish at seven-under and just outside the top-50 in the event won by American Grayson Murray, who holed a monster birdie at the first play-off to capture a second Tour title and just over six-years after his first. The Oban lefty MacIntyre admitted to be a little rusty following the ...

Questions will continue to be asked after American golfer – 54-year-old Ken Weyand – posted a 53-over-par tally to finish last by 39 shots at the inaugural Dubai Invitational. Weyand, 54, ended the four rounds with an incredibly unheard 72 strokes behind champion Tommy Fleetwood’s 19-under victory tally on the host Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht club course. The Florida-based Weyland posted scores of 87, 82, 82 and a closing 86 for a horror 337 tally and so far adrift of Sweden’s ...

A first in golf was created at the stroke of midnight, Saturday 1st January, 2000 when I proudly hit the first golf shot on a golf course of the new millennium. This historic golfing achievement took place on the Tonga Golf Club course in the capital of Nuku‘alofa. The nine-hole Tonga Golf Club course, and also known as the Manamo’ui Golf Course, is the only golf course on this tiny Pacific Island nation.  Also, it is the first golf course to the left of the International Dateline Tonga ...

Newly-married Grant Forrest reckons World No. 2 Rory McIlroy is a ‘super power’ when it comes to driving the golf ball. Forrest, who was married just prior to the end of last year at a lavish ceremony at the Archerfield Golf Club to the east of Edinburgh, is among five Scots contesting this week’s inaugural Dubai Invitational in the UAE. Forrest has posted scores of 73, 68 and 71 for a one-under tally and just inside the leading 30 heading to the final round being played in this ...

Ewen Ferguson was in good spirits heading into the weekend rounds of his first event of a new year and this despite making a penalty splash with his very first competition shot a day earlier at the inaugural DP World Tour’s Dubai Invitational. Ferguson, who now calls Dubai home, posted a bogey-free second day three-under 68 to head into the weekend rounds sharing 10th place at five-under on the host Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club course. He said: “It’s been a good two days, playing an event ...

Robert MacIntyre has thanked out-going Tour CEO Keith Pelley for providing Scotland’s top-ranked golfer ‘with a pathway to his dreams’. Pelley celebrated his 60th birthday Thursday in somewhat bizarre manner, first learning while competing in this week’s inaugural pro/amateur Dubai Invitational, that news of him quitting as head of the European Tour Group had been unceremonously leaked by his new employer. It put the Tour, that’s he’s been their head since May 2015, in damage control ...

Mention Monte Carlo and it brings thoughts of the playground for the rich and famous along with words such as glitz, glamour and luxury of the French Riviera. Monte Carlo lies not in France but in the principality of Monaco along the shoreline of the Meditterrean between Italy to the North and with France to the south. It’s one of nine regions within the principality of Monaco, and with Monaco being the second smallest principatlity in the world behind The Vatican. Monte Carlo also is a city ...