Golf, by TourMiss

For the Tartan duo of Martin Laird and Russell Knox this week’s Valero Texas Open is their ‘Masters Last Chance Saloon’. Laird and Knox need to win this weeek’s PGA Tour event in San Antonio if they are to earn the final invitation into next week’s 87th hosting of the Masters at Augusta National. At present, just former Augusta champ Sandy Lyle is the only Scot teeing-up on the famed Georgia golfing gem, and with the 1988 Masters winner revealing his 42nd Masters and 101st major championship ...

Taichi Kho – write down his name as here could be a rising star in golf Kho, who only turned professional in January, created history by becoming the first player from Hong Kong to win an Asian Tour event in capturing the rain-shortened inaugural World City Championship presented by the Hong Kong Golf Club. There were wild scenes when the 22-year-old, who had earned his first victory on the same suburban Fanling course as a then amateuer at the 2016 Hong Kong Junior Open, closed out the event ...

Undefeated former double event champion Jason Day was the first to book his place into the last 16 at the WGC Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, Texas. Day, 35, sent Collin Morikawa packing with a 4 & 3 defeat and with Day never behind, winning the third and fourth holes with birdies and then moved 4up with birdies at 11 and 12 before the duo each pared the next three holes for the Aussie to be 3 and 0 in his three qualifying encounters in the $20m event being played for a last time at the ...

Not since Nike Golf stopped making golf clubs has so much attention been focussed on Rory McIlroy’s equipment. With the hosting of the 87th Masters just two weeks away McIlroy may have found a key, well two keys, that hopefully may lead to him unlocking the front door to the most elite club in all of golf. After the clear frustration in missing the cut in last fortnight’s Players Championship, McIlroy headed to Augusta National, playing 54-holes over the course of two days, and a golf ...

Third seed Rory McIlroy was singing the praise of two news clubs in being untroubled, breezing into the second round of today’s (THURS) of the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Texas. McIlroy accounted for American Scott Stallings wrapping-up a 3 & 1 victory in holing a seven-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole in the $US 20m event on the host Austin Country Club course. McIlroy headed into the final hosting of the event having put a shorter shaft, albeit by half-an-inch, into hisTaylorMade ...

Reigning Masters champ Scottie Scheffler admits his chosen ‘Masters Champions Dinner’ is not one for any nutritionist among those who will be sitting next fortnight at the Augusta National dinner table. Scheffler has revealed how he arrived at a menu featuring cheeseburger slides, firecracker shrimp, tortilla soup, a main course of Texas ribeye steak or blackened redfish, and with a sweets serving of warm chocolate chip cookies. Looking at the calories with a cheeseburger slider boasting ...

Third seed Rory McIlroy is staring at a semi-final showdown with World No. 1 and defending champ Scottie Scheffler should both players win their earlier series of matches in Wednesday’s start to the final hosting of the WGC – Dell Match-Play in Austin, Texas. McIlroy has been initially drawn to play fellow PGA Championship winner Keegan Bradley, the 20th seed ahead of facing Danny McCarthy the No. 48 seed and a third American and No. 52 seeded Scott Stallings. It will be Stallings who McIlroy ...