Golf, by TourMiss

It has been mentioned often I should write a book. Maybe I should, given I have been walking around with a media badge either around neck or pinned to my shirt since the early to mid 1980s. I had been drawn into tournament golf by Australian great Greg Norman who, in the mid-70s to early ’80s, was seemingly winning everything. Indeed, Norman won 13 of an eventual 32 Australasian Tour events from 1976 to end of 1984.  He returned home a year later and went on to win another 19 ‘home’ ...

The staging of this week’s 2020 WGC – FedEx St. Jude Invitational rekindles memoris of my first visit to Memphis in attending the 1997 FedEx St. Jude Classic. Greg Norman was also making a first appearance in the event in 12-years and I headed to Tennessee to report on the tournament for Australian Associated Press. Norman was also the reigning Australian Open champion having captured a fifth Stonehaven Trophy some seven months earlier.  He then won the Andersen Consulting World Championship ...

Dustin Johnson spoke eloquently of his friendship and admiration for Rory McIlroy but he was bowled middle stump by a ‘googly’ when reminded a McIlroy stroke of brilliance. Johnson joined Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff for a pre-tournament press conference ahead of Sunday’s TaylorMade-hosted ‘Sunday at Seminole’. McIlroy, who will team with Johnson, was unavailable on the telephone hook-up for reasons unknown. However, in the absence of the current World No. 1 it seemed opportune ...

RBC Heritage week that should be concluding today at Hilton Head is one of the more-popular Tour destinations on the schedule. It’s the week eveyone looks forward and especially following the drama and the stress of the Masters and with players, caddies, officials and fans very much enjoying the relaxed vacation setting at Hilton Head. The only real concern is not to speed along highway 278 and probably the most direct route from Augusta to Hilton Head.  It’s around a 135-mile, leisurely two-and-a-half-hour ...

I vividly recall visiting Killarney Golf & Fishing Club in Ireland and was shown a note left in the visitor’s book by the legendary Bob Hope. Hope wrote: “Loved the golf course, coming back to find the fairways.” If there was a visitor’s book on hand at Isle of Barra Golf Club my message would be: “Loved the most-westerly golf course in the UKs location but coming back to find the tees.” I will explain what I meant by that remark later in this feature piece ...

It was the day after the 2013 World Cup of Golf and a lovely cloudless Monday morning as we headed north from Melbourne bound for Sydney and the Australian Open. We were staring at a near 800 kilometre drive but were only about two hours into the journey when we decided to get off the Hume Highway to visit the Victorian rural town of Euroa. The town was made famous by legendary Australian bush ranger Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang when on 10th December, 1878 they head up the staff of the National Bank ...

While the world’s best golfers will be fighting fiercely to manoeuvre themselves into position to capture the Open Championship, a championship of different sorts will take place on Saturday, July 20th, 2013. Those golfers not at Muirfield will be making their way to the picture postcard island of Skye for the annual – Isle of Skye Open. The Isle of Skyle Golf Club is one of just two golf courses on Skye and what wonderful nine-hole experience. The club with next year celebrate its 50-year anniversary ...