Golf, by TourMiss

Shane Lowry labelled it a career ‘milestone’ in ending a miserable run of outs to be assured of contesting all four rounds for a first time in six showings at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando. Lowry battled the bright but inceasingly windy conditions, grabbing an eagle and two birdies in a round of a two-under 70 to move well inside the top-25 at two-under in the up-graded $US 20m event at the Bay Hill club. The Offaly golfer was tied with 2018 champ Rory McIlroy, who bounced back from ...

.…. Dubai Tennis Centre World No. 1 Novak Jjokovic has been bundled out, losing his Dubai Duty Free semi-final showdown in straight sets against big-hitting World No.7 Daniil Medvedev. The Russian-born Medvedev handed Djokovic a comprehensive 6-4, 6-4 defeat to set-up a Saturday final showdown against defending Dubai champ and compatriot Audrey Rublev. Medvedev and Rublev being the current World No. 6 and 7 in the world. Medvedev, 27, took it right to his eight years older Serbian rival, breaking ...

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic continues to be unstoppable powering into the final four at the Dubai Duty Free Championships. For a second night running the Serbian was in a class of his own, brushing aside gutsy 25-year-old Monaco-based Polish opponent Hubert Hurkacz with scores of 6-3 and 7-5. The six-and-half-foot tall Hurkacz, and one of the best servers in the men’s game, won the very first point of the match with a screaming ace but was soon cut down to size some 30 minutes later in losing ...

Rory McIlroy reckons major changes proposed for the hosting of PGA Tour tournaments will make for a more ‘compelling product’. In a continuing shake-up of the PGA Tour, and again clearly in a reaction to the impact of LIV Golf, the PGA Tour has announced the following to be in play from the start of the 2023/24 wraparound season. The PGA Tour board, and with McIlroy a member, annoucned they have ratified a number of significant changes to next season’s  schedule, including reduced ...

Scot Russell Knox has elected not to contest this week’s $US 20m Arnold Palmer Invitational and instead is taking the week off to give himself a better chance of banking next week’s $US 25m Players Championship title. Knox, 37, is staring at four missed cuts in succession and should not play all four rounds of Arnie’s event, following a disappointing run over his  last three events in sitting out the weekend rounds in the Phoenix Open, the Genesis Invitational and last week’s Honda Classic. This ...

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic hardly worked-up a sweat breezing into the quarter-finals of the Dubai Tennis Championship with an effortless straight two sets win over Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor. After being seriously tested in Tuesday’s opening match, Djokovic was near his best, crushing the World No. 39 ranked Griekspoor 6-2, 6-and much to the delight of a packed open-air stadium located in the heart of the Irish Village in Dubai. Djokovic, wearing the same green-and-yellow coloured attire as ...

… Reporting from Dubai Tennis Centre, Dubai  Record-setting World No. 1 Novak Djokovic had to go into extra gear to defeat Czech Tomas Macac in a three-set thriller and qualifier for the last eight at the Dubai Duty Free Championship. Djokovic arrived in Dubai following his 10th Australian Open triumph and earlier this week set both a new men’s and women’s record reign of 387 weeks atop of the world rankings. However he clearly was not expecting the World No. 130 ranked Machac to take ...