Golf, by TourMiss

Tiger Woods, like the majority of competitors in the Turkish Airlines Open, had to wait 15 hours to resume his opening round in the $7m event being played on the Maxx Royal course in Belek. There were less than 40 spectators waiting close to the 11th green when the siren sounded at 8am local time to herald the restart to play after a three-hour thunderstorm delay to the start of play on Thursday. Woods was lying at one under par and staring at a 20-yard chip shot when play was halted just prior ...

World No. 1 Tiger Woods is staring at a 20-yard chip shot over an 11th hole greenside bunker when play resumes on day two of the weather-affected inaugural Turkish Airlines Open. Woods struggled with the driver in his first regular Tour event since the PGA Tour’s Tour Championship managing to hit just two fairways at the 10th and 11th holes and minutes before poor light halted play in the $7m penultimate European Tour event of the season. The 14-time Major winning Woods was at one under par ...

Tiger Woods certainly recognizes journalist talent as evidenced during his pre-tournament Turkish Airlines Open press conference here in Belek. There was standing room only in the conference room of the stunning Maxx Royal when the current World No. 1 was introduced to the assembled guests and media. One of the questions put to Woods came from The Scotsman golf correspondent, Martin Demspter. Here is the question and answer from Woods as transcribed by ASAP Sports Q.  Can you tell us what you ...

Masters winner Adam Scott is determined Moreton Bay Bugs will be on the menu at the traditional Former Champions Dinner at Augusta next April. The Champions Dinner has been an annual feature at The Masters since 1952 when Ben Hogan hosted the first meal as defending champion. Tradition dictates the previous year’s winner selects the menu of his choice. He also has to pay for producing his menu. Over the years, the tucker served up has ranged from Thai food presented by Vijay Singh, cheeseburgers ...

Brandt Snedeker was a shock last minute withdrawal from this week’s Australian PGA Championship citing a knee injury despite the American in seemingly good health and hosting a clinic on Monday in Shanghai. The current World No. 9 was to be one of the major draw cards along with Masters champion Adam Scott competinngn ompionship presented by Coca-Cola, has been forced to withdraw with a knee injury sustained in China. Snedeker competed in last week’s WGC – HSBC Champions event in ...

Tiger Woods has admitted that despite confessing he had been close some years back to joining the European Tour he will not take up membership. It has always been argued that if Woods were to become a European Tour member he would have easily finishing the leading money-earner on both sides of ‘The Pond’. You only have to look at the dual PGA and European Race to Dubai counting events with Woods having earning $3,922,612 from eight counting events. When converted to Euros it amounts ...

A thunderstorm and resulted flooding has forced a three hour delay to the start of the play in the inaugural Turkish Airlines Open at Belek. The storm struck the Montgomerie designed Maxx Royal course before any players in the elite 78-player field had managed to tee off. But after an initial two hour delay an inspection of the course revealed a number of the greens had flooded. Officials moved the first match tee time from the scheduled 9.05am local time start to an eventual 12.05pm local time ...