Golf, by TourMiss

Scotland’s West Dumbartonshire Council is facing further backlash after indicating a second ‘budget meeting’ has voted to close Dalmuir Golf Club while all may not be lost. The council had initially voted last year to close the public access golf course, located to the north of Glasgow on Scotland’s west coast however a petition disagreeing with the decision nipped that move in the bud. However with matters seemingly sorted not to close the course and the immediate future ...

This week’s Investec South African Open has returned for a first time in 15-years to the stunning Durban County Club course laid out close to the Indian Open shoreline. Though it was 11 years ago when the now-named DP World Tour was last in South Africa’s third largest city and that was for the third and final hosting of the ‘winners only’ Volvo Champions event on this week’s host venue. I had attended the opening Volvo Champions in 2011 in Bahrain before it was then ...

There is plenty of golf courses around the globe when you mention their names, straightaway has you are thinking  ‘how did the course attract that name?” Courses such as the famed Crooked Strick where John Daly won a PGA Championship while there is host of the not-so-knowns such as the Purgatory Golf Club in Indiana, Kissing Camels in Colorado and reminding me of that photo of Michelle Wie kissing a camel, Mad Russian Golf Club and also in Colorado and Devils Knob in Virginna. What about ...

I have been asked often during the course of so many decades reporting on men’s pro golf: ‘Who is the toughest golfer you’ve ever had to work with?”. The answer to that question is unquestionably Darren Clarke. You see, as a freelancer I was writing for a number Irish-based outlets including the Irish Independent, the Irish Star, the Irish Examiner and Irish Golfer Magazine, so if Clarke was playing well I needed to speak with him. Though Clarke was not always obliging, including ...

If you love your golf and are intending to be present at Royal Portrush either before, during or post this year’s Open Championship then you need to take yourself to Castlerock Golf Club. Maybe, you’re thinking of planning a game of golf early one morning before venturing to golf’s oldest major or just make it a longer Irish golfing adventure. There’s plenty closeby golf courses to choose including Portstewart that’s literally just up the coast road while a little south ...

Argentario Launches Tuscan Golf Getaway to Celebrate Staging the Italian Open 2025 Porto Ercole, Italy; February 2025 – The Argentario Golf & Wellness Resort, Autograph Collection in southern Tuscany has launched a golf getaway to celebrate its staging this June of the Italian Open on the DP World Tour when the resort will host some of golf’s finest professionals. The package offers golfers the chance to experience the challenge of the championship course at the Argentario Golf Club, the ...

The AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am was known firstly as the Bing Crosby Amateur, or just the Crosby Clambake however after Crosby’s death in 1977, the tournament was hosted by his family for eight years. The Crosby name was dropped after the 1985 event, and AT&T became the title sponsor in 1986. It makes AT&T the longest running continuous title sponsor on the PGA Tour (since 1986) and is this year is celebrating its 40th year as title sponsor of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Okay, ...