Golf, by TourMiss

Golf’s ruling bodies, the St. Andrews based R & A and the New Jersey based USGA, look set to announce an anchoring ban next Tuesday. Both have released advisory notices of a ‘Rules of Golf’ Press Conference, and while it’s not definite a ban will be announced Peter Dawson as CEO of the R & A hinted some weeks ago the two ruling bodies were close to an announcement on the controversial manner of anchoring the belly putter and/or long-handled putter to the body. Hereunder ...

Double Major winning Rory McIlroy looks set to split with his management company and just do it on his own in managing his business affairs. This is according to a report in today’s (FRID) Irish Independent with McIlroy’s father, Gerry expected to head the company. McIlroy stunned the golf world late in 2011 when he split from the UK-based International Sports Management (ISM) in favour of joining good friend and fellow US Open champion, Graeme McDowell with the Dublin-bases Horizon Sports Management. Under ...

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 ...