Golf, by TourMiss

This week is the 26th hosting of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters being played in the capital of Doha. The event was added to the DP World Tour schedule in 1998 and to be held on the only green golf course in the Qatar capital, located as it was at the time, on the outskirts of the city and prone the Shamals – the northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states often strong during the day, but decreasing at night. Scotland’s Andrew Coltart was among those teeing-up in the ...

As an avid follower of any sport you often find yourself searching web pages looking to try and keep abreast of what is happening around the globe in your sporting love. Golf is no different as I am forever looking at the results of the various tour’s, studying not only who is leading and/or winning a tournament but also looking to see who produced a good last rounds or someone of note who just played well Following this past week’s edition of the ZoZo Championship what was really pleasing ...

What is the odds of a brother winning one week in professional golf and a week later his sister also is triumphant? That’s what happened with Australian-born brother and sister Min Woo Lee and Mingjee Lee. Just seven days after 25-year-old baby brother Min Woo captured the Macau Open, and his first win on the Asian Tour, and big sister Mingjee won the LPGA’s BMW Ladies Championshipo in South Korea. It’s believed such a scenario has never happened before in men’s and women’s ...

Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson was heading to the Middle East and this week’s defence of his CB Qatar Masters title buoyed by his strong showing at the Estrella Damm Andalucian Masters in Spain. Ferguson, 27, muscled his way to a share of 13th place thanks to four closing nine birdies in succession in posting a three-under 69 for a share of 13th place in wet and windy last day conditions on the host Sotogrande course at San Roque. Poland’s Adrian Meronk made it four career DP World Tour titles ...

In a rare decision, strong winds forced Estrella Damm NA Andalucia Masters officials mid-afternoon to advise spectators to leave the course while the later hours of the opening day of the Spanish event were played under a ‘closed door’ policy – players, caddies, officials and media only. The winds picked-up as the morning half of the draw were completing their rounds on the famed Sotogrande course at San Roque laidout  very close to Spain’s Costa del Sol shoreline. However, as ...

It’s been three weeks since the star spangled USA Ryder Cup team was soundly spanked by their European hosts in Rome. And this week for a first time we are seeing some of the Americans finally returning to competition including the trio of Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, and Rickie Fowler, who have travelled to Japan for the ZoZo Championship. The ZoZo Championship was first staged in Japan in 2019 and won by Tiger Woods, and while the Covid pandemic saw it moved to the US the only PGA ...

  Tournament host Tiger Woods has released the field for this year’s hosting of the Hero World Challenge again taking place on the Albany course in the Bahamas. Heading this 24th hosting of the limited field event will be World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and with double tournament winning and FedExCup champion Viktor Hovland leading the small number of Europeans to tee-up in the 20-player field,  However, there will be no Rory McIlroy teeing-up while Shane Lowry, who struggled last year ...