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Double Major winner Rory McIlroy has smashed what is believed to be the European’s Tour second longest drive during his new Royal Aberdeen course record breaking seven under par 64 on day one of the Scottish Open. The 25-year old McIlroy managed to find the green with his wind-assisted drive at the 436-yard par four 13th hole. While the European Tour does not keep records of long drives www.golfbytourmiss.com was on hand at the Maderia Islands Open in 2012 to report on the what is believed ...

The ‘Flying Sikh’, and the star of the Bollywood smash hit movie ‘Run Milkha Run’, met Scotland’s First Minister today at the Royal Aberdeen course. Milkha Singh is the father to European Tour professional golfer Jeev Milkha Singh and with the now 84-year winning a gold medal at the 1954 Commonwealth Games along with four Asian Games gold medals but then going agonizingly close to an Olympic gold medal in 1960 in Rome. Stuart Adams (www.golftourimages.com) snapped the ...

Double Major winner Rory McIlroy returns to a first Scottish Open in five years to join Jamie Donaldson and Thailand’s in-form Thongchai Jaidee for the opening  two rounds here at Royal Aberdeen. Defending champion Phil Mickelson has been grouped with England’s and former World No. 1 Luke Donald and Dutchman Joost Luiten, In other grouping over the first two rounds of the £3m event Ian Poulter is out alongside Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez and visiting American Jimmy Walker. Top ...

Former double winning US Open champion Curtis Strange really should know better than to right off Tiger Woods in winning a second Royal Liverpool Open Championship in succession. Next week’s 143rd Open Championship will be Woods’ first Major of 2014 since undergoing back surgery in the days following last March’s WGC – Cadillac Championship. Woods has contested just one event since and that was missing the cut in the Quicken Loans Championship at Congressional. The 14-time ...

Welcome to Royal Aberdeen and venue for the 2014 Scottish Open. www.golfbytourmiss.com is looking forward to bringing you all the news from this week’s special event here in the ‘Granite City’.    

Nick Faldo is on a mission to find the best chippie in Aberdeen so he can keep up his favourite tradition when playing links golf in Scotland. Whenever Faldo arrives in a seaside town at the start of Open week he makes a bee-line for a fish and chip shop for his favourite treat. So while the three-time Claret Jug winner could rhyme off the best chippies in St Andrews, Gullane and Girvan, he’s on fresh ground with the forthcoming trip to compete in the Scottish Open at Royal Aberdeen. “I need ...

Mt. Juliet’s Kevin Phelan now finds himself not needing an invitation to contest this week’s Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open. The rookie professional has come off the list of five players afforded Royal Aberdeen invitations and now finds himself a Category 12 entrant, and qualifying for the £3m event as having finished top-27 in the 2013 European Tour graduate school. It means event organisers now have four invitations to hand out later this morning (Monday) that will bring the ...