Golf, by TourMiss

It’s been a long, patient and sometimes frustrating wait but Rory McIlroy has not only remarkably captured a maiden Masters but he’s now joined tne most elite group of golfers in all of men’s pro golf – the Grand Slam Club. There had been five but now we have six players who can lay claim to membership to the Grand Slam club and with McIlroy becoming a first in some 20-years to do so. However it took 18 agonising, dramatic and sometimes frightful holes and then a play-off ...

Double Augusta National winner Bernhard Langer walked off the 18th green at Augusta National Golf Club with a smile on his face on Friday afternoon, completely overwhelmed with emotion. Langer, having just missed the cut at his 41st and final start at the Masters, took his visor off and waved to the crowd that was situated along the final green. After giving a hug to Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley, the 67-year-old Langer tracked down his family. Then, with his wife Vikki’s hand in his, the ...

Top ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre has disappointingly crashed out of the Masters and with the double PGA Tour winner from last year posting a pair of 75s for a shock six-over tally. MacIntyre was teeing-up in his third Masters and a first in three years however he struggled under the weight of a pair of bogey-laden rounds, including ending his second round with three straight bogeys. The Oban lefty could manage just four birdies over his two rounds but also recorded seven bogeys but also a first ...

A proud World No. 2 Rory McIlroy brilliantly reignited his quest for a maiden Augusta National title with a superb bogey-free six-under par 66 on day two of the Masters. After posting two late opening round double-bogeys in a level par 72, McIlroy superly regrouped grabbing a 13th hole eagle ‘3’ and four birdies to be in the clubhouse at six-under-par and just two adrift of Justin Rose, who could add only a 71 and move to eight-under. McIlroy’s second round is his lowest loop around ...

England’s Justin Rose takes a three-shot lead into the second round of the 89th Masters but already looming large in the former US Open’s rear-view mirror is doublt Masters winning Scottie Scheffler. Scheffler has not won since last December’s Hero World Challenge but that could all change this week where he seeking to capture a third Masters title in four years. And in an interesting statistic Scottie’s birdie at the fourth hole on day one ensures that in 21 rounds of Augusta ...

Former US Open champ Justin Rose will take an impressive three shot lead into the second round of the 89th hosting of the Masters. Rose, contesting his 20th Masters posted a seven-under 65 that including a hat-trick of opening birdies, along with also three birdies in succession mid-round and with the only hiccup being a closing hole bogey to lead the field by three shots. The 44-year-old Englishman, who has been runner-up at Augusta National in 2015 and 2017, is clear of a trio of players in second ...

Augusta National Chairman Fred Ridley hosted the annual Chairman meets with the Masters media earlier today at Augusta National. There was Ridley’s opening address of some 1,800 words before he opened the floor to questions. Ridley was asked 16 questions ranging from a variety of topics with a couple of particular note that we have selected hereunder:   Chairman Ridley @TheMasters once again faces some tricky questions in the annual address to the media Including @livgolf_league “We ...