Golf, by TourMiss

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 ...

Scotland’s Scott Jamieson put a near five-hour bad weather warning delay to good use, delighted to watch his beloved Rangers keep their title hopes alive with victory over Motherwell. Jamieson, and leading by two shots at 11-under, was some 30 minutes away from teeing-off in the last group on day three at the ISPS Handa Spanish Open when the threat of thunderstorms halted play for near-on five hours on the host course at Tarragona to the south of Barcelona. It wasn’t till close to 5.30pm ...

Shane Lowry was in an upbeat ‘Mardi Gras’ kind of mood thanks to Ian Poulter on the opening day of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Lowry and Poulter were laughing and joking, and all the time gelling superbly in the unique team format to post an eight-under-par 64 in ideal scoring conditions on the TPC Louisiana course. Last year’s Ryder Cup team-mates were even decked out in identical dark blue shirts and ultra-bold, and what only Poulter would wear, large blue-and-white check ...

A twenty-four year pilot is being hailed a hero in landing his stricken two-seater light aircraft on a golf course in the south of France. The Safari Flying owned plane with Registration No. F- JDPG, lost power and with the fast-thinking pilot landing on the fifth fairway of the Sainte Maxime Golf Club on the French Riviera.  Safari Flying is located at nearby Frejus. On board the plane was two people, the pilot and his grandmother, who the pilot was taking for a joy flight. The young pilot managed ...

It is almost unheard of that when a top-ranked golfer wins a golf tournament he goes out of his way to arrange for a dozen bottles of bubbly to be delivered to the press room. This has been the practice each time Rickie Fowler has won either on the PGA Tour or the now DP World Tour, and with Fowler, and through his manager, organizing either champers or ice-cold beers for the attending media at each of his five PGA Tour wins or his pair of DP World Tour victories. There was champagne all around when ...

Wild winds, wild shots, and also wild deer presented Shane Lowry and his colleagues with one of the wildest days for some time on day two at the RBC Heritage Classic in South Carolina. Even wilder are the conditions that help present a scenario of just nine shots separating the 71 players who made the even-par cut heading the weekend rounds of the 53rd hosting of the Euro 7.4m event on the host Harbor Town course at Hilton Head. Wind gusts up to 30 mph played havoc with the morning half of the field, ...