Golf, by TourMiss

…. Augusta, Georgia China’s 14-year old amateur sensation  Tianlang Guan has earned enormous respect in accepting the ruling of a one-stroke penalty for slow play during the second round at Augusta Natiinoal. Augusta National officials could not advise if a player has ever been penalised for slow play in the prior 76 Masters. European Tour Chief Referee, John Paramour slapped the reigning Asian Amateur champion with the penalty at the 17th hole and with the Chinese golfer walking off ...

World No. 2 Rory McIlroy sent his flagging confidence soaring with an eagle midway through his round on day two of the Masters. McIlroy played a 3-wood shot into the eighth green, bouncing his golf ball off the bank guarding the green and with the ball coming to rest just three feet from the flag. The eagle earned the 22-year old a pair of crystal goblets in an eventual round of 70 to lift the struggling Northern Ireland into a surprise tie for eighth place in his fifth Masters showing. “I was ...

Sandy Lyle celebrated the 25th anniversary of his Masters win ending a run of two Augusta National missed cuts to also find himself the leading Scot. Lyle, 55 added a second round level par 72 to his opening 73 for a one over par tally and a share of 31st place late on day two of the 77th Masters. The double Major winning Lyle birdied his second and third holes and then brought the crowd to their feet at the ninth, and despite a bogey at the 11th and 14th he birdied the par five 15th for a second ...

Frenchman Gregory Bourdy now has company in the Major Championship ‘Tortoises Club’ after China’s 14-year old Tianlang Guan was slapped with a stroke penalty for slow play late in his round on day two of the Masters. Bourdy was competing in the final round of 92nd PGA in 2010 at Whistling Straits. He was partnering American J B Holmes when he was spoken to by a rules official when the group became out of position at the 10th hole. But when the group did not regain their position ...

A one-stroke penalty for slow play could very well cost 14-year old Chinese amateur, Tianlang Guan the halfway cut in the 2013 Masters. Guan was slapped with one stroke penalty at the 17th hole by European Tour Chief Referee, John Paramour. The teenage sensation, and the youngest player ever to compete in the Masters, was three over par at the time for 35 holes but ended his round at four over and likely to miss out via the ’10-Shot Rule’ in playing all four days of the 77th Masters. Paramour ...

Tarpon Springs is an 18-hole golf course located in Tarpon Springs along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline on the west portion of Florida. It was another of the courses we inspected during the Tampa Bay Championship. The original nine holes of the golf course was designed in 1906 and with the second nine finished in the late 1920’s. The course plays to a par 72 and measures 6,243 yards from the back tees with many doglegs that make it play longer than the actual length. Tarpon Springs boasts four par ...

Rory McIlroy was again haunted by ‘silly little mistakes’ in posting a level par 72 on the opening day of the Masters. McIlroy was two under par at the turn and only four shots from the then clubhouse lead before an roller-coaster inward half to end trailing six shots behind the leading duo of Spain’s Sergio Garcia and Australia’s Marc Leishman who shot six under par 66s. Garcia’s round is the first time since the third round in 2002 he’s not recorded a bogey while Leishman is competing ...