Golf, by TourMiss

There is nothing like the spills and thrills of match-play golf! That was clearly evident after the opening day of the WGC – Cadillac Match Play Championship with upsets galore on the TPC Harding Park course in suburban San Francisco. Defending champion Jason Day, third-ranked Henrik Stenson, last week’s PGA Tour winner Justin Rose (No. 6), Adam Scott (No. 9) and Matt Kuchar (No. 14) all lost Wednesday. However in the new round robin pool format they will all live on to play another ...

Australian-born Marc Leishman says he has always had pretty good perspective when it comes to golf. But it changed when his wife nearly died four weeks ago after suffering toxic shock syndrome, acute respiratory distress syndrome and sepsis. Any one of the three alone can be fatal. Audrey Leishman was stricken with all of them at once and told she had a 5 percent chance of surviving before being medically induced into a coma. Slowly, however, she started to recover and even though she isn’t 100 ...

Webb Simpson is in San Francisco for the first time since his victory in the 2012 U.S. Open at Olympic Club and he’s returned to the club of Major Championship triumph. The American traveled to the Olympic club, where he  won by a shot, on the eve of this week’s WGC – Cadillac Match-Play Championship. However his first stop was not the practice range but the snack shop located near the driving range, to see if he could get one of the club’s famed burger dogs. Unfortunately the ...

Here’s a quick look at each of the 32 matches scheduled for today’s (WED) first round of the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Match Play at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. JUSTIN ROSE, England (0-0) vs. MARC LEISHMAN, Australia (0-0), Group 6, 12:50 PM ET Fresh off his win in New Orleans last week, Rose certainly is in form. Meanwhile, Leishman’s only top 10 this season came in November at the HSBC Champions. He just returned to action last week after his wife suffered a medical ...

Defending champion Alex Levy will be part of a sprint finish during the final round of the Volvo China Open after the Frenchman ended day three in a four-way tie for the lead. The 24 year old Frenchman started the day a shot behind compatriot Julien Quesne, but found himself two shots clear after birdieing his first four holes. However, there were no further gains for the 24 year old and four bogeys led to a level par 72 at Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club, allowing England’s David Howell and Chinese ...

The French flag was flying high in China with four players headed by Julien Quesne leading the way after two rounds of the Volvo China Open in Shanghai. Quesne, a two-time Tour winner, edged  one clear of compatriot and defending champion Alex Levy with a second round 67 to move to eight under par in China’s financial capital. Levy signed for a 68 to be sharing second place with American Peter Uihlein who posted a 67 to be on seven under par. The ‘tricolour’ dominance continues ...

American Peter Uihlein edged closer to a second European Tour victory with a round of 68 to move one shot clear on nine under par on day two of the Shenzen International in China. The 2013 Madeira Islands winner heads to the weekend just ahead of Thailand’s Kiradeck Aphibarnrat while double Masters winner Bubba Watson trails nine behind his American-born compatriot. Uihlein had holed a neat putt at the sixth, a par four, for a gain to draw level with previous clubhouse leader Aphibarnrat, whose ...