Golf, by TourMiss

Palm Beach Gardens, FL … Tyrrell Hatton clearly had a maiden Masters appearance on his mind wearing Augusta-green trousers to shoot a two under par 68 on day one of Honda Classic at PGA National in Florida. The 25-year old England star, who seems to like wearing green, capped his round with three birdies in succession from his 13th to move to three under par. Hatton, competing in the £5.12m event on an invitation, then double bogeyed the par three 17th, and the final hole of the famed ‘Bear ...

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has appointed golfing sisters Ariya and Moriya Jutanugarn as ‘Thailand Golf Ambassadors’. The move to engage the LPGA Tour stars is part of a plan to enhance the international awareness of Thailand as a world-class golf destination that offers an amazing range of outstanding courses and facilities. Yuthasak Supasorn, Governor of TAT, said: “As Thailand Golf Ambassadors, the talented Jutanugarn sisters will represent Thailand at major golfing events and ...

Palm Beach Gardens, FL … Adam Scott handed Rory McIlroy a superb compliment in declaring the Northern Irishman to be ‘more accomplished’ than any player currently atop of the World Rankings. Scott is this week’s defending Honda Classic champion and he had been asked about the issue of World No. 1 after fellow Australian Jason Day was relegated last week to World No. 2 by reigning US Open champion, Dustin Johnson. Day reigned atop of the Rankings for a total of 51 weeks before ...

Palm Beach Gardens, FL … Ahead of teeing up in his first PGA Tour event of 2017 at this week’s Honda Classic, Ian Poutler revealed a wonderful tale concerning a missing $100 bill autographed by the late, great Arnold Palmer. The story surfaced when Poulter was asked, and ahead of returning to Bay Hill and the Arnold Palmer Invitational next month, what was his fondest memory of Palmer who passed away late last year and just days ahead of the Ryder Cup. “Well, there’s so many”, ...

Pacific Padisades, CA … It’s hardly customary for the assembled media looking to speak to a player who finished outside the top-60 no matter what the tournament. Except on this occasion, and bizarrely just outside the Ladies locker-room in the exclusive Riviera clubhouse, it current World No. 1 Jason Day who the media wanted to talk with. Strangely, on the eve of the Genesis Open the Australian living in Ohio had spoken candidly for a first time of the real pressures of dealing with the being ...

Pacific Palisades, CA … Genesis Open – Final-Round Notes – Sunday, February 19, 2017 Weather: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 60. Wind SW 6-12 mph. Round three resumed at 6:50 a.m. and ended at 12:03 p.m. Final-round tee times are between 10:25 a.m. – 12: 15 p.m. Final-Round Leader board Dustin Johnson 66-66-64-71—267 (-17) Thomas Pieters 70-68-71-63—272 (-12) Scott Brown 68-68-69-67—272 (-12) Dustin Johnson A week after his third-place showing at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, ...

Pacific Palisades, CA … Tour Miss:  What do you have in place here at this year’s Genesis Open? Dr. Kathy Bihr:  What we have here in the TGR Learning Lab tent on course at Riviera is four stations that are really inter-active where young people can come in and see what activities we undertake. Standards are a very important subject to us … science engineering and technology, so we are really trying to inspire more young people to go into those fields and look at why are they taking science ...