Golf, by TourMiss

Looking back on the golfing year there’s been … Winners, Grinners, Losers, Emotion, Cat Fights, Pony Tails, Millionaires, Seve Movie, Mushroom Soup, Arabian Sea Breeze, Rulings, Double-D, Open Champs, A Signed Scottish £1 Note, Mum, Media, Bar-B-Ques, Spanish Tears, Pampered Pros, A Broken Shaft & Huey Lewis without The News. Let’s now roll with the best, the worst, & much more from season 2021. TEAM OF THE YEAR AWARD The winning European Solheim Cup team.  It’s the ...

Graeme McDowell was delighted to be ‘burning daylight’ as playing partner Corey Conners combined to be just one from the lead with a 15-under par 57 on day one of the QBE Championship. McDowell and Conners brilliantly posted a 17th hole eagle ‘3’ and 13 birdies in a best-ball format but under a ‘preferred lie’ rule on the Gold course at Tiburon near Naples on Florida’s west coast. It handed the 41-year-old McDowell and his 29-year-old team-mate the lead before being overhauled by the ...

Here’s an adventure for the golfer’s out there who enjoy discovering new heights. Now that restrictions to travel are being lifted, why not treat a flight yourself to double French alpine flying and golfing adventure? This is what we did recently thanks to Alpine Flying School – https://alpineflyingschool.fr  and the Gay Bayard Golf Club – http://www.gap-bayard.com/golf-de-gap-bayard The Alpine Flying School and Gap Bayard have their homes high in the stunning French Alps ...

A decade ago, I ended-up with Dustin Johnson’s putter during the final round of the 2011 Open. I was working, as I still do, with the R & A media team helping out in bringing players to the media centre over the official opening three days and then once the tournament proper gets under way, I would walk escorting the media about the course. So, on the final day of the 140th Open I am walking the last group with Darren Clarke and Johnson. I think it may have been either the 14th or 15th hole ...

Of all the Open Championships I have attended, the 1993 Open at Royal St. George’s stands out as special. Special in that it was a fellow Australian and my ‘growing-up’ golfing idol Greg Norman being handed the famed Claret Jug by legendary Gene Sarazen. Also making it special was seeing the Australian Cricket Team in attendance and with Alan Border’s men already boasting two wins and a draw from their three Ashes series matches against ole foes England. I had been among the media ...

The annual hosting of the CB Qatar Masters always brings back a great story I have my maiden visit to the tournament in 1999, and the then second hosting of the tournament. Though I must say, I just recall why I had not attended the 1998 Qatar Masters and won by Scotland’s Andrew Coltart. It was a double celebration for the affable Scot who awoke in Doha on the Sunday morning having received confirmation from far off Australia he’d done encough to be crowned as the 1997/98 Australasian ...

If you thought you needed any assurance you had had found your place in a chosen field then that comes sometimes when someone of higher authority or stature publicly acknowledges your work or presence. It could be a school teacher being singled out by the school head in front of the entire school or an office worker praised by the CEO in front of the entire company workforce. It was well into the latter half of 2013 when controversial TV analyst, and former PGA Tour player, Brandel Chamblee, and ...