Golf, by TourMiss

Lee Westwood and Tiger Woods are in good spots after two rounds of this year’s Open Championship at Muirfield. Westwood, who is looking to capture a first Major, was out at 9am earlier today adding a second day 68 to his 72 to move to three under par and then share of fifth place. The 14-time Major winning Woods teed off 44 minutes later and birdied the last in a level par 71 to be tied with Westwood. “I was pleased to have  been six-under through 12 because I was playing some great ...

Reigning Masters champion, Adam Scott confessed the sun-baked Muirfield greens are ‘getting pretty spooky’. Twelve months after Scott bogeyed his closing four holes to let slip victory at Royal Lytham and St. Annes and the champion Australian set about making ammends with a level par 71 in conditions on the east of Scotland more akin to Spain’s Costa del Sol. Scott posted four birdies and just as many bogeys to head to the second round trailing five shots behind fellow Augusta National ...

Three former Open champions, and each one well over the age of 40, are among the top-10 on the leader board after the first day of the 2013 Open. The trio of past Claret Jug winners include Mark O’Meara (aged 56) who shot a four under par 67, fellow American Tom Lehman (aged 54) shot a three under par 68 and 2004 Open winner Todd Hamilton (the baby of the trio at 47) signed off for a 69. O’Meara defeated Canadian Brian Watts at Royal Birkdale to win the 1998 Open and while the American ...

World No. 1 Tiger Woods recovered from having to take an unplayable penalty drop left of the first hole to shoot a respectable two under par 69 on day one of the 2013 Open Championship. In what is becoming increasingly common, Woods played a wild 3-wood tee shot off the first hole at Muirfield but then as the crowd began to head down the fairway, Chief Starter Ivor Robson was calling on people to stand still as Woods decided to play a provisional. However while his original first ball was found it ...

Double Major winning Rory McIlroy posted his second worst Open Championship score of 79 on day one of the 2013 Open Championship and then admitted he’s been walking around for the past six months – brain dead! McIlroy posted just two birdies but also six bogeys and a pair of double bogeys in a score that was just one shot less than the 80 he posted on day two of the 2010 Open Championship at St. Andrews. The 24-year-old confessed to feeling “a little lost” as he missed the ...

The Isle of Man’s Marc Morley has pulled off what has to be a ‘Man of Steel’ effort in claiming a hole-in-one on a 300-yard par four. Morley, 35, from Port Erin, achieved the incredible feat on the 305-yard, par-four 15th at his club, Rowany, and the 13-handicapper was rewarded with membership of the exclusive BOSS Watches H1 Club and a specially-commissioned, commemorative timepiece. But it was the fact that Morley’s albatross was secured on such a long hole that raises his ...