Golf, by TourMiss

Golfers are being given the unique opportunity to take a step back in time to play the famous Old Course in reverse, with a new series of events introduced by St Andrews Links Trust. Old Course Reversed has been unveiled by the Trust to commemorate 50 years of the organisation being custodians of the world’s most renowned golfing landscape and is set to become an annual event to give golfers a glimpse of the Old Course’s storied past. From the 1400s the Old Course emerged and evolved from the ...

Scotland’s Connor Syme wasted little time igniting a ‘Down Under’ rare of topping his Australian Amateur win with victory in this week’s ISPS Handa Australian Open in Sydney. Syme, 28, grabbed eight birdies in a sizzling seven-under 64 in wet and overcast conditions to muscle his way to a share of third on the par-71 Lakes course, and one of two courses hosting joint men’s and women’s top Aussie titles. Sydney-sider Cameron Davis, and winner of the event in 2017 at The Australian ...

Double European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald, while saying it would be ‘great’ if Tiger Woods is appointed rival 2025 US Captain, believes the ‘culture’ created under his leadership in Rome will put his European Team in good stead heading to Bethpage Park. Donald, 45, revealed a decision to remain after leading Europe to a 16½ – 11½ victory against the United States at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Rome. He becomes Europe’s first repeat Captain since Bernard ...

For those visiting Bethpage Park (Black) course there is a warning sign on the first tee advising it is an ‘extremely difficult’ golf course. That’s not the only thing that is extremely difficult as newly-appointed double European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald and many of his team heading to New York in late 2025 are already aware. There have been two recent major championships hosted at Bethpage Park (Black) – 2009 US Open and 2019 PGA Championship – and among a few ...

Luke Donald has elected to remain as European Ryder Cup captain by agreeing to lead his side into competition at the 44th hosting of the competition in 2025 at Bethpage Park in New York. There were loud calls of ‘two more years, two more years, from his dozen Rome winning golfing gladiators soon after Europe’s comfortable five-point victory over the visiting Americans. And now, after discussions between his family, fellow players and the European Tour, Donald has agreed to stay on. It ...

Two months ago, Viktor Hovland and Collin Morikawa were Ryder Cup rivals in Rome However for the past two years, the Norwegian and the American have been sharing a house within the exclusive Albany resort in The Bahamas. Their house-sharing the last two years also ended with Hovland being handed the ‘Tiger’ trophy by tournament host, Tiger Woods and winning back-to-back matches also matched the effort by Woods in 2006 and ’07. Though in the 23-year history of the event no-one ...

Tiger Woods sat behind the microphone at a PGA Tour sanctioned event for a first occasion since April’s Masters however he wasted little time side-stepping any talk of taking over the captaincy reins of the USA 2025 Ryder Cup team. No sooner had the American side lost convincingly at this year’s 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome and Woods’ name was being strongly suggested as the replacement for the hapless Zach Johnson. Woods served as a vice captain at the 2018 Ryder Cup in Paris and was ...