Golf, by TourMiss

In a huge shock to golf fans the world over the PGA of America has agreed to pay American players who compete in next year’s Ryder Cup at Bethpage Park. The PGA of America indicated that each of the 12 players on Keegan Bradley’s side will receive $500,000 with $300,000 to be donated to a charity or charities chosen by each player while the remaining $200,000 has been termed a “stipend”. Stipend is defined as a form of compensation that is paid to certain individuals for services rendered, ...

Tiger Woods will head a field of 18 major champions, both in the mens and womens game, teeing-up in this week’s 27th annual hosting of the PNC Championship in Orlando, Florida. Woods and son Charlie will be seeking a maiden triumph in the event after having finished runner-up in 2021. However, it won’t be easy for the 15-time major winning Woods in recently ruling himself out of teeing-up in his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas and not having competed in a formal event since missing ...

US-born players may dominate the field of 207 competitors but it is a Scot who shines among those teeing-up tomorrow (December 17th) over five rounds of a final qualifier for 2025 Asian Tour membership. All up, 42 countries will be represented competing in five rounds of over two courses at the Lake View Resort and Golf Club at Hau Hin in Thailand. America boasts 29 players with Australia next with 20, Thailand 19, Korea 15, Japan 14, India 11, China 8, England, Chinese Taipei and Singapore each ...

Rookie pro Gregor Graham enjoyed an adventurous affair on his DP World Tour debut at Leopard Creek in South Africa. Graham, 21 received a late invitation last Sunday into the co-sanctioned Alfred Dunhill Championship and teed-up in a first play-for-pay event and signing for a one-over 73. The young Scot was two-under after just five holes but came unstuck over the next five, posting one birdie but also two bogeys and two doubles before regrouping to birdie 12 and 13 ahead a further bogey on 14 before ...

Double Masters winning José María Olazábal and his Olazabal Design company have designed or renovated golf courses in his native Spain, Greece, Qatar, China, Austria, The Maldives Islands and now have signed a deal to design a golf course in Bahrain. Bahrain boasts just three golf courses, including the Royal Golf Club course designed by Colin Mongomerie and that played host in 2011 to the inaugural European Tour’s Volvo Champion and won by England’s Paul Casey.   The Al Areen ...

Rory McIlroy has won the AGW Golf Writers Trophy for an unprecedented fifth time. Members of the Association of Golf Writers voted to reward the Holywood, County Down-born player for a year of three ‘individual’ wins and teaming with fellow Irishman Shane Lowry to capture the Zurich Classic of New Orleans that culminated in a sixth DP World Tour Race to Dubai triumph. McIlroy’s fifth victory is a record for an individual in the 74 year history of the award, breaking his tie with Lee ...

What a 2024 season it has been for Scott Alexander Scheffler or ‘Scottie’ as the golf world knows him. Nine victories, six more than his nearest rival.  A second Masters green jacket in three years. Back-to-back wins in the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Players Championship and ending with legendary Tiger Woods donned in his traditional final round red shirt handing Scheffler an 18th career title on the 18th green in The Bahamas. In his next start after the Players,  Scheffler ...