Golf, by TourMiss

Just 17 miles from bustling JFK International Airport and some 14 miles from famed Bethpage Park Black there’s a delightful nine-hole course away from all the fuss and bother. I discovered Merrick Road Park golf course during the week in reporting on the 2017 Northern Trust and also just 13 miles from the then host PGA Tour venue at Glen Oaks. It was the first time Northern Trust sponsored this Play-Off Series event and what a memorable head-to-head final round struggle between Dustin Johnson ...

Dumbarnie Links, and Scotland’s newest golf course, remains optimistic of opening for play in exactly a month’s time. Dumbarnie Links was designed by Clive Clark, a member of the 1973 GB & I Ryder Cup team, and is laid out on the Firth of Forth shoreline near Upper Largo and less than 20-miles from St. Andrews in Fife. The course is planning to officially open on 16th May and with the club’s website sporting a countdown clock in days, hours, minutes and seconds though any opening will ...

In meeting Adam Calver, it’s impossible to miss his naturally sunny disposition. Talking ‘ten-to-the-dozen’, the Director of Golf at Laguna Golf Lang Co, a Faldo design ranked among the best golf courses in Vietnam, will wax lyrical on any number of subjects related to the Royal and Ancient game. Adam’s favourite topics include his rapport with Faldo, his stints at superstar clubs such as Cabot Links & Cabot Cliffs in Nova Scotia, Nirwana Bali Golf Club and Jumeirah Golf ...

It was around 4pm on the eve of the 2014 Masters and the final preview pieces had been filed. Those afforded invitations to tee-up in the next day’s first round of the opening Major of the year were away either competing in the Par-3 Contest or elsewhere doing what they had to do to prepare themselves for the tournament proper. Golf’s ‘Cathedral in the Pines’, as Augusta National is fondly called, was now closed to any further practice rounds and aside for a few green-staff ...

“On the road to Augusta” is the caption on the side of the club cap at Cherokee Run Golf Club near Conyers, Georgia. The caption is correct as Cherokee Run is around a 35-mile drive from Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport and located off the I-20 that links the Georgia capital with Augusta, and from Cherokee Run it is a 120-mile drive to the front gates at Augusta National. The I-20 is an interstate my colleagues and I have plied many, many times and too many occasions to ...

Top French European Tour star Raphael Jacquelin has delivered a glowing verdict on Spain’s La Manga Club after visiting the iconic golf venue for the first time – and was so impressed by the resort that he is already planning a return trip. Jacquelin took advantage of a break in his playing schedule to join a group of friends on a short golfing break to Murcia, south-east, Spain, this month. The 45-year-old had the chance to play all three of La Manga Club’s acclaimed 18-hole courses – the ...

Sky Sports Golf presenter and Royal Mid-Surrey Club Member Rob Lee provides a fascinating tour of Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club with the release of a new video. The video depicts the two 18-hole championship golf courses – the JH Taylor and the Pam Barton – plus comprehensive practice areas and extensive clubhouse facilities all within 20 minutes commute from central London and ideally suited for staging golf days, conferences and special events. “Located in the Old Deer Park in Richmond, Royal ...