Golf, by TourMiss

One of the European Tour’s leading photographers and myself had the opportunity to play one of the 10 Mission Hills course at Hainan Island ahead of the Match at Mission Hills. Having played the Stone Quarry course during the course of the 2011 World Cup of Golf I asked if I could again play this course – No. 7 of the 10 courses at this spectacular new golfing destination off the Chinese mainland. All 10 courses at Mission Hills Hainan Island were designed by the American-born team of ...

Lee Westwood has taken time out from his WGC- HSBC playing commitments to present a sizeable cheque of £228,600 for Help for Heroes. Westwood has been a Patron to the National Golf Club Challenge from its inception in 2010 and has contributed his time and influence on a number of occasions to help raise the profile of the popular national charity golf competition. The impressive donation from the 2013 National Golf Club Challenge event means around three quarters of a million pounds has been raised ...

England’s Simon Dyson is face a Tour disciplinary panel over his China cheating charge. The European Tour today issued a statement confirming Dyson has a case to answer and, if found guilty, he could be staring at a three or four month suspension from the Tour over an incident during the second round of last week’s BMW Masters at Lake Malaren in Shanghai. The six-time Tour winner was viewed taping down a spike mark on the eighth green just seconds are marking his ball. However it ...

The European Tour is set to make a formal announcement Thursday regarding the immediate future of England’s Simon Dyson. Dyson was disqualified from last week’s BMW Masters after being caught tapping down a spike mark with his golf ball during the third round at Lake Malaren. The European Tour has since been in damage control made with officials and Dyson’s ISM client managers observed in many discussions over the fate of the six-time Tour winning Yorkshireman. Unfortunately, ...

Former World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has been drawn into the on-going Tiger Woods/Brandel Chamblee cheating controversy declaring Chamblee ‘needs to be dealt with’. McIlroy was asked to comment on the issue involving the world’s top-ranked golfer and the Golf Channel TV commentator at a gala launch ahead of this week’s WGC – HSBC Champions event here in Shanghai. “I say Brandel was completely wrong and I don’t expect he has the authority to say anything bad about Tiger,” said McIlroy. “People ...

The European Tour is facing its biggest ‘cheating’ crisis since Scotland’s Elliott Saltman was suspended from all competition over four years ago. England’s Simon Dyson is staring at a possible three to four month suspension if found guilty of blatantly breaking the rules. Dyson’s immediate playing career remains under a darkening cloud after he was disqualified from last week’s BMW Masters for using his golf ball to tap down a spike mark on the eighth green during day three of the event ...

The Golf Channel has to cut Brandel  ‘Shambles’ Chamblee free if it’s to maintain any working relationship with Tiger Woods. This is clear after Woods and his long-time manager Mark Steinberg both stated exclusively to me yesterday at the Match at Mission Hills that while they are prepared to move on, the ball is in the court of the Golf Channel. It was the first time Woods had spoken about the controversy and he did so in my coverage of the event for Associated Press. I first ...