Golf, by TourMiss

Scott Jamieson was all smiles heading off for a meal of his favourite spaghetti carbonara and a bottle of Barolo in sharing the clubhouse lead on a weather-affected opening day of the DS Automobiles Italian Open near Rome. Jamieson, along with World No. 2 Rory McIlroy, were among six players in posting four-under 67s on the Ryder Cup Marco Simone host course to the north-east of the Italian capital. When poor light halted play late in the day nearly half the field were still to complete their round ...

A stroke of brilliance ​helped ​send Rory McIlroy soaring into a share of the clubhouse lead on the opening day of the DS Automobiles Italian Open on the Marco Simone course. McIlroy was 115-yards out in playing his second shot into the par-4 third hole​ that he was playing as his 12th on next year’s Ryder Cup host venue on the north-eastern outskirts of Rome. Long-time caddy Harry Diamond and ‘Best Man’ at his wedding, handed McIlroy a wedge that McIlroy landed just right of the pin ...

Shane Lowry was over the moon finally winning at Wentworth, going to the top of the 2023 Ryder Cup qualifying process and claiming victory for his DP World Tour colleagues with an emphatic BMW PGA Championship success at Tour HQ Lowry came from two shots back at the start of the third and final round, birding the closing hole in a 65 for a 17-under par tally around the famed Burma Road course, and in the flagship event reduced to 54-holes following the passing of Queen Elizabeth ...

The future of the 2022 BMW PGA Championship is now seriously in doubt following news of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11. Play in round one of the $18m championship was immediately halted around 6.30pm local time and with some 30 players still to complete their opening round on the host West Course at Wentworth. The DP World Tour is yet to issue a full statement but did use their social media accounts to reveal the intention to cease play and also to suspend play on Friday. pic.twitter.com/e3JSfJm3zO — ...

David Law emerged from the intermittent downpours all smiles to head the tartan charge with a 67 on the opening day of the BMW PGA Championship at Tour HQ. Law, 31, superbly picked-up from where he left off a year ago when the Aberdonian shot a Wentworth career-best closing round of 66 to share 14th place.  The effort was easily his best in three appearances at Tour HQ. Law trails just three shots behind Norwegian sensation Viktor Hovland, who finished birdie, birdie and then holed a 26-footer ...

Rome Ryder Cup vice-captain Thomas Bjorn was overflowing with praise for the Scottish duo of Ewen Ferguson and Robert MacIntyre on day one of the Made in Himmerland event at Farso in Denmark. Double DP World winning Ferguson soared into a five-way share of second with an eagle and six birdies for an eight-under 63. England’s Ross McGowan broke the then five-player deadlock on 63 with his new course record of a nine-under 62 in glorious conditions. Beardson-based Ferguson capped his round sensationally ...

The PGA Tour must be reading GolfByTourMiss as no sooner had we ‘posted’ a story highlighting the FedEx Cup standings and the Tour has gone and removed all LIV Golf playings from the 2021/22 money-list. In a pre-Wyndham Championship feature ( http://www.golfbytourmiss.com/2022/08/beach-umbrellas-margaritas-jimmy-buffett-shane-lowry-can-play-it-cool-at-the-wyndham/  ) this website pointed out the various scenarios at this time of a PGA Tour season facing those teeing-up at this week’s host ...