Golf, by TourMiss

The 2023 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship looks destined to be reduced to 36-holes with Carnoustie, and one the three host courses in this year’s $US 5m tournament, seriously under rain water. Carnoustie is one of the three host courses and has been on board since the inagural event in 2001. However, images and video footage taken earlier today show the County Angus course virtually an inland sea of rain water. As most golf fans will be aware the famed Barry Burn cuts its way through the famed ...

It speaks volume’s for any golfer, and in this case Graeme McDowell, that after the disappointment of missing the halfway cut in the inaugural Asian Tour’s International Series Singapore he should remain in Singapore to host a teaching class for local young golfers. McDowell spent qualify time with 15 talented youngsters on the Singapore Golf Association’s (SGA) Futures programme, delivering tips on technique and attitude at the Tanah Merah Country Club’s driving range on Friday afternoon. And ...

The prestigious Alfred Dunhill Links has been washed-out for a second day running as persistant rain continues to drench much of Scotland. It has been raining steady since early evening on Friday and now nearly 40 hours later there is no sign in a let-up of the wet weather leading not only to flooding on the three host courses but with local flooding of roadways, railway lines, farms and property. Disappointingly it is a second day of no play in this year’s $US 5m event being played over the ...

Victorious European Ryder Cup hero Tommy Fleetwood was not only disappointed with his day’s play but revealed he had to retire his victoirous Rome winning driver after cracking its face during the second round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. It was Fleetwood who holed the winning putt that sealed Europe’s eventual five-point vicvtory on the host Marco Simone course. However the proud Englishman was sounding a little disheartned following his second round one-over par 73 for ...

It’s been just over a month since Mark Power last teed-up on the famed Old Course and that being the disppointment of losing the 2023 GB & I Walker Cup to the visiting Americans. However, it definitlely not Power’s mood with the Irishman buoyed returning to the Auld Grey Toon now as a rookie professional competing on the DP World Tour. The 23-year-old Kilenny golfer, and despite a penultimate hole bogey, had signed for a two-under-par 70 on the opening day of the $US 5m Alfred Dunhill Links ...

David Drysdale continues to ride a wave of good form birdieing three of his closing six holes in a three-under 69 after day one of the Asian Tour’s International Singapore event. The lone Scot in the $US 2m event over an early round bogey to birdie his ninth, 12th, 14th and final holes in the sauna-like conditions on the Tanah Merah host course. The Borders golfer who arrived into the island nation having secured a rookie Tour best of a T3rd last week in Taiwan while he has strong memories of ...

Victorious Celtic Manor winning hero Grame McDowell admits it was a ‘bittersweet experience’ watching TV coverage of last week’s victorious European Ryder Cup triumph in Rome. “It was a little bittersweet, and I would love to have been part of what they were doing but it is what it is right now and hopefully we’ll see if we can figure that out moving forward,” said McDowell ahead of this week’s Asian Tour International Singapore. “But obviously a great ...