Golf, by TourMiss

World No. 1 Tiger Woods tomorrow (FRD) hosts his now annual tournament of a different kind – a 50-player, $10,000 starting, poker event in Las Vegas. The two-day charity ‘Tiger Jam’ will be filmed for the World Poker Program and is being staged from May 17th to 18th at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino to benefit the college-access programs of the Tiger Woods Foundation. The event has raised about $14 million over the past 15 years. Participants will join Woods, poker professional ...

Stephen Gallacher is staring at the Black Sea nightmare of needing to take out Ryder Cup winning hero, Graeme McDowell in one of his two opening matches in the Volvo World Match-Plahy Championship. Gallacher and fellow Scot Scott Jamieson will sit out today’s THURS) first round robin matches featuring just the 16 seeded players in the 24-player field. Gallacher then tackles England’s Chris Wood tomorrow morning (FRD) and McDowell, who holed the winning putt at the 2010 Ryder Cup, in the afternoon. The ...

Bo Van Pelt will create history this week becoming the first American-born professional and joining players from 14 other nations to compete in this week’s Volvo World Match-Play Championship at Thracian Cliffs in Bulgaria. It is the first time a major golf tournament will be staged in the former Communist country and now a member of the European Union. Van Pelt had been among a group of 11 PGA Tour based players along with caddies and managers flown by sponsors, Volvo on a private jet from Jacksonville ...

Graeme McDowell has expressed his delight this week’s historic Volvo World Match-Play Championship in Bulgaria won’t see a repeat of Ireland’s Arizona anguish. The WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship earlier this year saw Ireland’s four competitors – Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, Padraig Harrington and McDowell – all bracketed in the same group. Lowry shocked the golf world in defeating McIlroy in the opener while McDowell accounted for Harrington also in the first round before McDowell ...

With the inspiration of Adam Scott,  Brett Rumford will be looking to achieve something never accomplished before by an Australian on the European Tour and that is to win three Race to Dubai tournaments in succession. Rumford secured his maiden appearance in this week’s historic Volvo World Match-Play Champioonship in capturing the recent Volvo China Open. The Perth-born golfer had won a week earlier in winning the Ballantine’s Championship and his third career Tour success wasinspired ...

Shane Lowry has avoided the huge embarrasment of a first round confrontation with fellow Irishman Graeme McDowell in this week’s historic Volvo World Match-Play Championship in Bulgaria. Unlike Lowry’s match-up with then World No. 1 Rory McIlroy earlier this year in Arizona, Lowry will not meet McDowell unless both qualify for Sunday’s final in the Euro 3m event. Lowry shocked the golf world in easily accounting for McIlroy in the Arizona desert and while he then beat Sweden’s Carl Pettersson ...

Scott Jamieson seemed to express more fear tumbling into the Black Sea or being bitten by venomous snakes than his competitors in this week’s historic Volvo World Match-Play Championship in Bulgaria. Jamieson joins fellow Scot Stephen Gallacher among 24 players representing 15 nations taking to the stunning Thracian Cliffs course. The Gary Player designed course is laid out along a four kilometre stretch with holes four to 10 averaging about 40 metres above the shore line below. And the European ...