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The destruction Hurricane Harvey  caused to golf courses in Houston and now the onslaught of Hurricane Irma immediately rekindled memories of a visit earlier this year to a golf course in Gulfport, Mississippi. Bizarrely, it is exactly 12 years ago Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc to the east of Texas slamming into the Gulf Coast submerging New Orleans and causing death and unbelievable destruction all the way to Florida. While the clean-up and rebuilding after ‘Harvey’  continues ...

We’ve all heard of Kiawah Island, The Internatonal in Denver, PGA West , the Black Course at Bethpage Park, Pine Valley and Whistling Straits. But seriosuly who has heard of Tot Hill Farm? We came across Tot Hill Farm purely by accident driving as we were from Charlotte, and venue for the 201 P7GA Championship and won by Justin Thomas, and the short drive to Greensboro and also in North Carolina, for the Wyndham Championship. In making my way into the Tot Hill Farm clubhouse here on one of ...

To understand why a slice of Scottish golf can be found in a corner of Indiana and laid out along the banks of the Ohio River, and with the Blue Grass State of Kentucky on the opposite bank, you have to know more about the course designer. The Links at Rising Sun in the town of Rising Sun was designed by Tim Liddy, who is a member of the American Society Golf Course Architects, works out of Yorktown, Indiana.  He honed his trade for two decades under legendary Pete Dye before branching out on ...

For a very long time, here is a story not about a golfer winning a big tournament but a golf club looking to change the life of an unlucky golfer. We have all had our unlucky breaks including my good self who, only a fortnight ago, came within a few inches of an ace but then I got to thinking what if I had of holed the tee shot and who could have verified the effort given I was out on the course all on my lonesome. Then we had the bizarre scenario last week of American Rickie Fowler and his ball ...

What has not been mentioned in any report following the first round of the rain delayed Shenzhen International is that Bubba Watson contested the round using a white golf ball. Where was the pink golf balls he has been using this season after having signed a deal with Korean based ball manufacturer, Vovik Of course, Watson is also looking for a first victory since February last season and in capturing the Northern Trust Open. The double Masters winner posted a six under par 66 before just under ...

Adam Scott will always be remembered as the first Australian to win the Masters. After two top-10s in the two years proir, Scott bought Australia to a halt on Monday morning (Australian time) in 2013 when he was fitted with the famed Augusta National members green jacket to end a long, overdue 77-year wait. And now on the 20th anniversary of Scott’s first Masters in 2002 Scott describes how to tackle all 18 holes of Augusta National. HOLE 1: TEA OLIVE | PAR 4 | 445 YARDS This is a terrific ...

In the mid-western region of the state of New South Wales, Australia you will find some of the state’s finest rural golfing gems. First stop once leaving Sydney and crossing the Blue Mountains is the Bathurst Golf Club on the western outskirts of the city.  The course is the boyhood home to European and Australasian Tour champion Peter O’Malley and is a shining rural golf nugget, and in a town close to where gold was first discovered in Australia. (Go to:  http://www.golfbytourmiss.com/2014/03/bathurst-golf-club-an-australian-rural-golfing-gold-nugget/ ) Some ...