Golf, by TourMiss

Birthday boy Rory McIlroy may be out of his North Carolina victory comfort zone but it won’t deter him in blowing out the candles on a hopeful career first successful defence at this week’s Wells Fargo Championship in Maryland. There were the sounds of ‘Happy Birthday’ for the now 33-year-old as he teed-up in Wednesday morning’s Pro-Am ahead of this week’s event, and for a first time, in 19-year history of the Wells Fargo Championship being on the TPC Potomac course. The Euro 8.53m championship ...

A year ago, it was a river of tears flowing around the final green at The Belfry as Richard Bland ended a 478th tournament winless drought to capture the BetFred British Masters. There was an ocean of tears from those viewing coverage of one of the nicest players in golf also becoming, at age 48, the oldest first-time winner on the European Tour; only Malcolm MacKenzie, with 509, had played more tournaments before claiming his first win on the tour. Among those to greet Bland, in a Covid spectator-restricted ...

Spaniard Jon Rahm played far below his best but still managed to come out on top in capturing the Mexico Open. Rahm struggled in posting a final round two-under-par 69, winning by a shot thanks to a 17-under-par tally. Helping Rahm was a 15th club in the bag, and that was a very supportive Mexican crowd however with the year’s second major just days away, Rahm’s efforts over the four days was not the stuff of someone really on top of his game however his name now appears as winner of the first ...

Congratulations and well done! What a great double 50th anniversary tribute at the start of today’s inaugural Catalunya Championship at the famed PGA Catalunya Resort course at Girona in Spain. This year, as we have been writing, is the 50th anniversary of the DP World Tour while this also marks half-a-century since legendary Spaniard Antonio Garrido won the 1972 Spanish Open and with the now 74-year-old hitting the ceremonial tee shot earlier today. And it was a pretty decent tee shot as those ...

Reigning Open Champion Collin Morikawa has again spoken of his delight in heading to St. Andrews for a first time in July for the 150th Open Championship. Since remarkably capturing a second major last year on his Open debut last year at Royal St. George’s Morikawa has been asked often about heading to the Home of Golf, and for a first time, to defend the Claret Jug over the famed Old Course. And now after the annual pre-Open media outing, and this year at St. Andrews, the American has again ...

The 150th Open at St Andrews will be the largest in the Championship’s long history with a record-breaking 290,000 fans set to attend at the world-renowned Old Course from 10-17 July. Unprecedented demand to attend this historic milestone for The Open led to more than 1.3 million applications in the ticket ballot and has resulted in the highest-ever number of general admission tickets being issued to fans. The attendance surpasses the previous high mark set at St Andrews in 2000 when 239,000 spectators ...

A fortnight shy of a 11-years ago, Pablo Larrazabal was in tears having failed to capture the Spanish Open a day after Seve Ballesteros had passed away. Larrazabal was himself a week shy of his 27th birthday when the legendary Ballasteros left us for that great fairway in the sky. There had been a hugely emotional line of players, caddies, officials, media and spectators on the practice range early that Saturday morning in Barcelona in honour of Seve.  Among them was Larrazabal. Larrazabal had broken ...