Golf, by TourMiss

One of the delights in driving up to the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, and home each year to the Arnold Palmer Invitational in surburban Orlando is there are no security gates, no security guard box and now even a simple electronically-operated boom gate. This is so vastly different to the scenario across America where, and even at some public courses, unless you have prior permission or a suitable pass, you just cannot get past the front gates. Of course, in this dangerous world that’s how sometimes ...

Players at this week’s Genesis Invitational will again find their way up over 50 steep steps at the back of the 18th green to the clubhouse at Riviera Country Club in suburban Santa Monica. The Riviera club had first hosted a PGA Tour event in 1929 with a purse of $10,000 and since the club has welcomed the Tour in 1930, 1941, 1945 to 1953, 1973t to 1982, 1984 to 1997, and then every year from 1999 to a year ago when Max Homa was handed a $1,674,000 first prize cheque from a purse of $9.3m. ...

They call it the ‘Golf Writers Mock’! It is when you leave the sanctuary of the media center and walk out onto the golf course and choose to follow a particular group or golfer. Nothing really wrong with that as long as the player you are following doesn’t start dropping shots. I was reporting on the 1991 Volvo German Open at the Hubblelrath GC in Dusseldorf.  It was late August and the German Open was the last qualifying event for the European Ryder Cup team selection though at ...

* This article first published in January 2021 and updated January, 2024 There’s always that unique joy in playing a golf course you’ve not played before. Normally, it is a golf course you know well or you’ve read about. Also, that delight is magnified if you’ve managed to play well. There is also the joy teeing up at a golf course you know relatively little about but where you also play well and while missing a couple of birdie putts, you do manage a handful of pars. Adding ...

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 ...