Golf, by TourMiss

Tiger Woods tees-up in this week’s Hero World Challenge ending a near seven-month absence from the game, and indicating that given a long history of personal injury that any future playing schedule would amount to one tournament per month. This week’s 20-player and now increased $4.5m field will be only Woods’ third event this year and his first since withdrawing due to injury following making the halfway cut at The Masters. In fact, Woods is also teeing-up in what will be just ...

David Rickman – and one of golf’s leading rules officials is set to retire from the R & A next year. After what will be 37 years of employment with the St Andrews-based governing body, Rickman will bring an end to a long and successful career in golf administration next October. As an expert Rules official, he will have refereed at almost 130 prestigious events in golf by the time he retires. In serving as Chief Referee at The Open next year at Royal Troon, Rickman will mark his 34th ...

Climbing the famed Sydney Harbour Bridge is a must for many on a visit to Australia’s first city but not for Robert MacIntyre. The top-ranked Scot is in Sydney for this week’s joint hosting of both the men’s and women’s Australian Open, and being held on both The Australian and The Lakes Golf Clubs. MacIntyre’s family has flown out from Scotland to support their Ryder Cup winning son as he seeks to become the first Scot in 128-years to lift the Stonehaven Cup when ...

There is no hotter brother-and-sister act in golf at present than Min Woo Lee and big sister, Minji. Between the pair of Aussie-born golfers they’ve won 17 tournaments on six different tours and four different continents, and this after both created history in becoming the first brother and sister act to capture the US Junior Amateur Championship – Minji in 2012 and brother Min Woo in 2016. The 28-year-old Minji is a two-time women’s major champion, capturing the 2021 Evian Championship ...

Aussie Min Woo Lee made it two wins in his last four starts with victory in the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship in Brisbane. Lee was in a class of his own over the weekend rounds and posting a closing three-under 68 to win by three shots at 20-under from Japan’s Rikuya Hishino on the host Royal Queensland course in the Queensland capital. Lee, 25, collected a third DP World Tour success, a third win on three different continents, a second success on home soil and the a second win in six ...

Scotland’s Connor Syme is in sizzling form ‘Down Under’ producing a bogey-free seven-under 64 on golf’s tradtional ‘moving day’ at the Fortinet PGA Championship in Brisbane, Australia. Syme, 28, was out off the first tee in the company of fellow Scot Grant Forrest to grab six birdies over his opening nine holes that included four in succession from his sixth hole on the host Royal Queensland course. However the birdies dried-up for the 2016 Australian Amateur champ ...

Scotland’s Scott Jamieson revealed it had been ‘nice to feel loved’ when arriving home to Florida two months ago full of pride in retaining 2024 DP World Tour membership. Jamieson was speaking are making the Joburg Open halfway cut in the opening event of the new DP World Tour season. Jamieson, 39, birdied his first and last holes in a three-under 67 for a two-under 36-hole tally and tied with fellow Scot Stevie Gallacher heading into the weekend rounds on the host Houghton course ...