Golf, by TourMiss

…. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Sergio Garcia may not be in the European Tour good books but the leading Ryder Cup points scorer says he’s determined to be in a position that Luke Donald cannot head to Rome without him. It came to notice ahead of last week’s Hero Dubai Desert Classic when European Tour CEO Keith Pelley revealed that Garcia and any other European who has been afforded honorary life membership is eligible to be selected to represent Europe. That includes LIV stars Graeme ...

.… Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Open Champion Cam Smith says it’s like they’ve just seen a ghost as that’s been the reaction when he’s had the famed Claret Jug in his possession. Smith celebrated the 150th staging of golf’ oldest major last July in also becoming the first Australian ‘Champion Golfer of the Year’  in some 30-years, and after Greg Norman in 1993, to be handed Claret Jug following his one-stroke victory over the Old Course at the Home ...

… Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia At 52-years of age, the chances of competing regularly on the PGA Tour are slim even if are a former multiple major champion. In Phil Mickelson’s case he’s won 45 times since a first win as a then amateur in capturing the 1991 Phoenix Open to sealing victory in the 2021 PGA Championship, and in what was a sixth major championship of his career, to become also the oldest winner of a men’s major. However, if they were handing out a major to the ...

….. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Four-time major winning Brooks Koepka returns to competition for a first time in 2023 this week revealing how his wife of some seven months, Jena was keen to kick him out of their matrimonial home in Florida and back to work. The couple were married last June in a lavish ceremony on the Caribbean island of Turks and Caicos. Koepka, 32, then celebrated his marriage four months later capturing a 16th pro career victory here at the Royal Green course in winning ...

…. Emirates Club, Dubai Past Masters winner Patrick Reed has been cleared on any rules breach or indiscretion after an incident at his penultimate hole on day three of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic. Reed is not the first golfer in the 34-year history of the event to come unstuck in ‘taking on’ the short, dog-leg right par-4 17th hole but finding his golf ball up a palm tree. But that’s what happened with the American walked to the spot and seeing what he thought was his ball. And ...

…. Emirates GC, Dubai  World No. 1 Rory McIlroy will take a three-shot lead into the final round of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic and seek to achieve a feat to have illuded him in 15-years, and that it is to win the first event of a New Year. Despite thinning his second shot into the water guarding the final green, McIlroy will head a first Monday finish in the Rolex Series event leading by three shots at 15-under-par. For 17 holes, McIlroy was at his best birdieing the opening four holes, ...

.… Emirates GC, Dubai  What the golf world would have loved so much to witness has somewhat disappointingly will not transpire, and by just 10 minutes. The ‘tee gate’ duo of Patrick Reed and Rory McIlroy ended their second rounds of the rain-interrupted Hero Dubai DesertClassic tied at eight-under but with any thoughts of a head-to-head third round encounter here in Dubai out the window with the DP World Tour announcing the draw as:   11:31am BRUN, Julien WALLACE, ...