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Ryder Cup winning star, Nicolas Colsaerts confirmed injury will keep him out of competition for a month ahead of hopefully returning at next month’s KLM Open in Holland. A nagging neck and shoulder injury saw the Belgian-born Colsaerts miss the halfway cut in last fortnight’s PGA Championship at Oak Hill that also then ruled him out of last week’s Wyndham Championship in North Carolina. But in missing out on teeing-up in Greensboro also spoilt Colsaerts hope of qualifying for the lucrative ...

Reigning Open Champion, Phil Mickelson has elected not to contest this year’s elite four-man Grand Slam of Golf. Instead Mickelson’s place will be taken by defending Grand Slam of Golf champion, Padraig Hafrrington. So this year’s event will now feature – Masters Champion Adam Scott, U.S. Open Champion Justin Rose, PGA Champion Jason Dufner and Harrington – in the  event to be take place from October 14th to 16th at Port Royal Golf Course in Bermuda. Scott, Rose and ...

Paul Lawrie brilliantly upstaged his guest and former victorious Ryder Cup captain, Jose Maria Olazabal with an ace in their challenge match yesterday(Tues) in Aberdeen. The pair played nine holes at the Paul Lawrie Golf Center  in Aberdeen. And in speaking with the Daily Record Lawrie spoke of his immense desire to return to next year’s Ryder Cup when it will be staged on home soil at Gleneagles and venue for this week’s Johnnie Walker Championship where Lawrie is defending. “The ...

Paul McGinley has used Gleneagles and the venue for next year’s Ryder Cup to launch the McGinley Foundation, a registered charity launched McGinley, and that has been announced as the fourth and final Official Charity of The 2014 Ryder Cup. The Foundation joins the three Scottish charities announced earlier this year – Friends of St Margaret’s Hospital in Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross Disability Sport, and Scotland’s family charity Quarriers – all of whose fundraising opportunities ...

Just a short distance inland from the ‘beautiful people’ playgrounds of St. Tropez and St. Maxine on the sun-splashed Mediterranean is a playground of a different kind. Beauvallon Golf Club doesn’t stand on ceremony and would not bat an eye lid if you arrived in a gleaming Ferrari or a mud-spattered mini or whether you’ve been on the front cover of a glossy magazine or the back pages of local rag. As the name implies, Beauvallon translates into beautiful valley and beautiful it is. The course ...

Golf Australia has finally confirmed what www.golfbytourmiss.com reported five days ago and that is dual Major Champion Rory McIlroy will contest this year’s Emirates Australian Open. If you go back through our NEWS stories you will notice we brought you this news mid last week. It had been brought to the notice of www.golfbytourmiss.com on day two of the PGA Championship at Oak Hill the affable 24-year old was rumored to be traveling to Sydney for a second time this year after being present ...

Spain’s Santiago Luna is over the moon after his powering his way to a one stroke victory in the SSE Scottish Seniors at the Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews Bay. Luna, 50 posted a final round 71 in bright but cold and windy conditions for a five under but par tally and one fewer than Torrance (70) and Ireland’s Denis O’Sullivan (72) on four under par. It is only the Madrid-born Luna’s second Tour victory after capturing the 1995 Madeira Islands Open in 1995 on the main Tour. However Luna ...