Golf, by TourMiss

For the first time in the events history rain has forced the Barclays Scottish Open into being reduced to a 54-hole championship. Heavy rain lashed the Inverness region very early on Saturday morning further postponing the restart to the already delayed second round in the event being played on the Castle Stuart course. There was local flooding in and around the northern Scottish city with portions of the main A9 motorway closed due to dangerous driving conditions. Seventy-eight players, among them ...

Dougie Lowe, the very popular former Herald golf correspondent, was remembered with a minute’s silence this morning on day two of the Barclays Scottish Open. Dougie passed away in March after a very short illness. He is greatly missed by his many friends and colleagues as evident when they gathered today in the Media Centre at Castle Stuart. Dougie always looked upon these two week’s – Barclays Scottish Open and The Open – as the happiest fortnight of his golf reporting year. Photos with ...

Phillip Price of Wales received a bottle of champagne for each yard of his 168-yard hole-in-one at the par three, 11th hole on day one of the Barclays Scottish Open. That’s 168 bottles of bubbly for his 8-iron shot. The former Ryder Cup star was naturally thrilled to be rewarded with 168 bottles of Laurent-Perrier champagne. “This is a lovely prize, and I am sure my wife Sandra and I will enjoy the champers,” he said. “It was nice to make a hole in one in competition for a change ...

Chilean golfer Mark Tullo has promised to wear a kilt to the prize-giving if successful in capturing the Barclays Scottish Open at Castle Stuart. The 33-year old Tullo joined Lee Westwood atop of the leader board with an impressive seven under par 65 in the testy conditions along the Moray Firth to the east of Inverness. Tullo birdied his opening four holes and then five of his inward nine for his equal lowest round in 15 events this year. The Santiago-born Tullo also signed for a 65 on the final ...

As his family went off in search of the locating the ‘Loch Ness Monster’, Phil Mickelson revealed his determination in continuing to strive to join the select band to have captured the golf’s  Grand Slam.   Mickelson’s halfway to achieving that goal in clinching three Masters (2004, 2006 and 2010) along with the 2005 U.S. PGA Championship.And while the current World No. 6 may have incorrectly stated the number to be six, there was no doubting the 41-year old’s enthusiasm on ...

South African golfer, James Kingston happily paid £650 for a commemorative Congressional flag on the assurance it will be signed by U.S. Open winner Rory McIlroy. Kingston, a former German Masters winner, was among many of this week’s Barclay’s Scottish Open competitors who attended a charity fund raising cricket match on Tuesday afternoon in Inverness. The European Tour caddies went down by two wickets to the Helensburgh Cricket Team who had travelled up to the northern Scottish city for ...

Phil Mickelson got a first look at Royal St. George’s in eight years when he played two practice rounds on next week’s Open Championship venue. The current World No. 6 was in London over the weekend to be present for the Wimbledon men’s final. The four time Major Champion also happily agreed to sign any item placed in front of him. Mickelson was then flown to Kent and played an afternoon practice round. He stayed overnight and was back out on the Kent course this morning getting more ...