Golf, by TourMiss

Fifteen-time Major winning Tiger Woods cannot be accused of suffering from any jet lag when he tees-up in next week’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush. Woods will be celebrating his 21st showing in golf’s oldest major having made his debut as a then 19-year old in 1995 at St. Andrews. Now aged 43, Woods is doing all he can to stay energised and that’s bizarrely involved staying awake in the middle-of-the-night Florida time to be fully acclimatised to a five-hour ahead time zone in arriving ...

Double Dubai Duty Free Irish Open winner Jon Rahm has been cut to odds of 16/1 to capture the Open Championship at Royal Portrush. Rahm was at 18/1 with Paddy Power ahead of Sunday’s two-shot success at Lahinch. The Spaniard’s revised odds to lift the Claret Jug now has the 24-year old just behind the 15-time Major winning Tiger Woods and World No. 2 Dustin Johnson, and with the American duo at 12/1. Rahm will be teeing-up in a fourth Open and a 14th Major in his now eight-time pro winner ...

Russell Knox brilliantly eagled the last to boost chances of becoming the first since Colin Montgomerie 22-years ago to successfully defend the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at Lahinch. Knox rolled-in a three-footer at the par-five last hole in posting a second round 68 and turn a very indifferent start, when he was struggling at three-over through six holes, to salvage his round with a two-under 68 for a 36-hole five under par total and just four from the front. Scotland’s top-ranked golfer ...

The R & A, and as organisers of golf’s oldest Major, have broken from a 40-year tradition to now adopt a three-hole play-off should one be required at this year’s 148th Open Championship at Royal Portrush. If needed, the play-off will be over par-4 1st hole, the par-3 13th and the par-4 18th. If any players are still level after those three holes, the winner of the Claret Jug will be decided by a sudden death play-off. Since 1989 when American Mark Calcavecchia defeated the Australian ...

Ryder Cup Captain Padraig Harrington led by example to ignite his quest for a second Irish Open success in 12-years after a sizzling 63 for a two-shot lead on day one of the event at Lahinch. It was remarkably also the 47-year old Dubliner’s lowest Tour score in over 18-years, and also close to 300 events ago at the 2001 Singapore Open, thanks to eight birdies and just the one bogey in glorious conditions on Ireland’s south-west coast. “I didn’t expect 63 out of it. I was expecting ...

Just weeks after teeing-up in a first U.S. Open and 22-year old American Amateur amateur sensation, Brandon Wu is headed to a first Open Championship after storming his way to leading qualifier at a Final Qualifier at the Fairmont Resort in Scotland. Wu posted scores of 64 and 67 for a nine-under par tally in bright but breezy conditions on an 18-hole combination over the two courses to the east of the St. Andrews. The current World No. 5 ranked amateur managed seven birdies and just one dropped ...

Rory McIlroy insists he’s not at all interested in teaming up with a so-called superstar caddie. The four-time Major winner’s comments come after the recent decision by Jason Day to bring legendary Kiwi caddy, Steve Williams out of retirement onto the Aussie’s bag. Day and Williams teamed for a first time at the recent U.S. Open, with Day suggesting he thought the veteran caddie’s experience would be an asset as he tried to play his way back to world number one status. Williams ...