Golf, by TourMiss

The famed Irish links gem Lahinch is this weekend proudly hosting the 51st staging of the Walker Cup. Lahinch Golf Club was founded 134 years ago in 1892 by Alexander W. Shaw and Richard J. Plummer, officials of Limerick Golf Club. They laid out an 18-hole course, the original course had ten holes on each side of the road. Lahinch has often been described as the “St. Andrews” of Ireland and that could be down to the original course designer Old Tom Morris, who was born and lived ...

The late Dolly Parton, adored by millions around the world, is also fondly remembered by all those playing golf at the game’s seventh-oldest club. Scotland’s Balcomie Links at Crail Golfing Society features a greenside bunker protecting the ninth hole green. It’s a commanding bunker deserving your full respect and golfing ability to avoid finding your way into deep sandy trouble. The bunker, and now boasting a very high artifical grass-lined protective wall, is affectionately known ...

It was a dramatic day with a first thunderstorm alarm ringing out in the early morning over the two courses and then for a second occasion the alarm sounded in the later part of the afternoon at Crail Golfing Society at Fifeness in Scotland, Though it was also a day at golf’s seventh oldest club filled with excitement and pride on the occasion of the official opening of the club’s Practice and Performance Hub. Plans were unveiled early last year to enhance the club’s practice facilities ...

Famed Scottish golf club Scotscraig Golfing Club, founded in 1817, has unveiled its newly restored clubhouse following the completion of a major refurbishment project. The championship links course, established by members of The Society of St Andrews Golfers (now The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews), has undergone significant investment across both the course and clubhouse over the winter months, culminating in the opening of the Playfair Trophy Room, named after Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair, ...

For someone who has been most fortunate to attend the Masters for 23-years, and enjoyed the honour of playing Augusta National twice, including breaking 100 on both occasions, here’s a few observations that I hope may whet your appetite a little ahead of this coming week’s 90th hosting of The Masters. THE 1934 MAIDEN MASTERS HAD TO BORROW FUNERAL CHAIRS FOR SEATING …. The first “Augusta National Invitation Tournament”, as the Masters was originally known, began on March 22, ...

Crail Golfing Society is golf’s seventh oldest club and it is proud to announce work on the Practice and Performance Hub has picked-up pace with the site now considerably drier, and construction firm Algo have been able to accelerate activity to catch up for the delays caused by the heavy rain. Algo’s construction team worked late into the evening to ensure the full concrete pour was finished in a single continuous operation. Building Control has since carried out its first inspection and ...

As true golf fans will know, the chances of ever teeing-up to play Augusta National are near impossible. Even attempting to approach anywhere near the Augusta National front gates facing Washington Road and you know you’re going to be ‘hassled’ by security personnel. Though there is one golf course in sleepy Augusta, Georgia where you area warmly welcomed and where you can play golf even on the Wednesday afternoon of Masters week when the famed Masters host course at Augusta National ...