Golf, by TourMiss

Dual Sweden and US citizen Carl Pettersson has taken out European Tour membership with the goal of trying to qualify for the 2014 Ryder Cup. Pettersson revealed ahead of teeing-up in this week’s Volvo World Match-Play Championship in Bulgaria he will endeavour to play the mandatory 13 events this year on the European Tour and then seek to do the same next year. The 35-year old North Carolina-based Pettersson was very much in line for a ‘wildcard’ pick for the 2012 Ryder Cup after a back-to-back ...

The Thailand duo of Thongchai Jaidee and Kiradech Aphirbarnat will create history this week becoming the first-ever Asian born professionals to compete in Bulgaria. Jaidee and Aphribarnrat will be among 24 players from 15 different nations competing in the Volvo World Match-Play Championship at the stunning Thracian Cliffs course laid out along the Black Sea shoreline. The Gary Player designed course was laid out less than five years ago and is only among eight golf courses in football mad Bulgaria. Fortunately, ...

Ryder Cup winning hero, Ian Poulter was uncharacteristically lost for words in finding a course similar to this week’s historic Volvo Match-Play Championship venue at Thracian Cliffs in Bulgaria. The spectacular Gary Player designed course is laid out over four kilometres on a cliff top overlooking the Black Sea. It is the first time a major golf tournament will be staged in Bulgaria, and in a country boasting only eight golf courses and with Thracian Cliffs among three each within 15 minutes ...

Belgian’s Nicolas Colsaerts has been reunited with his missing clubs and luggage thanks to Twitter and Facebook. Striking Brussels airport baggage handlers released his clubs Tuesday and with event sponsor, Volvo arranging for his father, Patrick to fly from Brussels with the clubs and luggage. But this was after Colsaerts mother, Danielle had travelled to Paris earlier Tuesday with a spare set of clubs and clothing but only to have her flight to Sofia cancelled. “Thanks to the power ...

Tumbling off the spectacular Thracian Cliffs golf course and into the Black Sea is not the only concern for competitors, caddies, officials and spectators involved with the Volvo World Match-Play Championship. The European Tour has posted a notice (see photograph) warning of the danger of venomous snakes, in particular ‘white headed snakes with zigzags on their backs’. The snake is known as  Ursini’s Viper, or Orsini’s Viper, or Meadow Viper (Vipera ursinii) This snake is ...

Defending champion, Nicolas Colsaerts has had to arrange for his mother to make a mercy dash to Bulgaria with a spare set of golf clubs for his defendce of this week’s Volvo World Match-Play Champion. Colsaerts was all set to travel Monday morning from Brussels to Varna in Bulgaria but found himself caught up in a baggage handlers strike at Brussels Airport. While the Belgian was able to make alternate flying arrangements he is unsure when his luggage and clubs will be released. Colsaerts later ...

The World Cup of Golf returns to the schedule later this year with the event to be stage at the famed Royal Melbourne Club from the 21st to 24th November, 2013. The tournament was not played in 2012 after being last staged in 2011 at the Mission Hills Resort on China’s Hainan Island when the American pair of Matt Kuchar and Gary Woodland reigned supreme. The International Federation of PGA Tours said the event would feature the individual, stroke-play format and a team component similar to ...