Golf, by TourMiss

Scot Craig Howie has given his new season a good start with the assurance of two pays cheques from as many events to be lying top-20 at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. The Peebles golfer battled the hot but very windy conditions posting a one-under par 71 to move to three-under on the Mont Choisy course on the north-eastern corner of Mauritius. He said: “I’m exhausted after that round.  It was really warm out there and with the wind making it really tough and very difficult. “If you ...

Scotland’s Craig Howie is very conscious of freezing conditions back home in warming to shoot a 70 on the opening day of the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. Howie grabbed three birdies and heads to day two of the co-sanctioned event trailing eight shots behind Finland’s Sami Valimaki on the Mont Choisy course just 13 miles to the north of the capital, Port Louis. Valimaki, 24, set a new course record in the mid-80s degree Fahrenheit weather, albeit for a short mid-round rain squall, muscling ...

There may be the chance over the Christmas Festive season that if you drop by the newly-opened Old Bonded Warehouse Pub at Bury Quay in Tullamore you may bump into a co-owner in Shane Lowry. We learned last month Lowry had teamed with close friend and pub tycoon Alan Clancy in delving into the pub and restaurant business in his native Offaly. The Open Champion got involved in this first business adventure with the purchase of the pub about a year ago but it has been Clancy who was instrumental in ...

It was so sad earlier this year in leaning news that former Asian Tour player and CEO Kyi Hla Han had passed away less than a week after turning the ‘young’ age of just 61. I got to know Kyi Hla well in travelling to co-sanctioned events in Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and China.  He was always engaging and always grateful for the support myself and other European Tour based colleagues showed in travelling to these countries. He competed in 78 events on the European Tour, mainly those ...

Aussie Richard Green has stormed his way onto the 2023 PGA Champions Tour in dramatic manner posting an 18 under par four round score of 266 at TPC Scottsdale to win by four shots and the top spot at the Champions Qualifying School in Arizona. The 51 year-old Melbourne-born lefty, and affectionately long know as ‘Greeny’ capped his career early-on in denying major champions Greg Norman and Ian Woosnam in a play-off to capture the 1997 Dubai Desert Classic and in the process becoming ...

Scott Jamieson was devouring the course with a record-setting 63 as a pride of lions dined out close-by on day two of the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa. Jamieson muscled his way to a three-shot lead at 13-under-par on the host Leopard Creek course that borders the famed Kruger National Park at Malelane, some 250-miles east of the capital Johannesburg. The Scot’s nine-under score is one fewer than Tartan colleague David Drysdale’s course record low of 64 on day three in 2016 ...

Scotland’s Scott Jamieson again showed a fondness for his ‘special’ event of the year in posting a 68 on the opening day of the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Malelane in South Africa. Jamieson grabbed six birdies, three on each nine, in a four under score in hot and mostly blustery conditions on the Leopard Creek course located on the edge of the famed Kruger National Park and some 250-miles east of the capital Johannesburg. South African Dean Burmester birdied his closing two ...