Golf, by TourMiss

No sooner had Tiger Woods been on hand for the opening of his first ‘Tiger Woods Design’ course in Texas and he visited Thompson’s Station, located some 30 miles south of Nashville in Tennessee, and site for his likely next Tiger Woods signature design course. The golf course will be laid out on 1,229 acres as part of a $115m project by Dallas-based Beacon Land Development at Two Farms at Thompson’s Station. “Tiger fell in love with the property,” said Mike Abbott, President ...

I had waited some two years firstly to revisit my younger brother and his family, including niece Nikki and nephew Jamie, but also to step back out onto Bathurst Golf Club. The attraction to again tee-up at Bathurst Golf Club, and a course I had been present in the early 1990s to report on the New South Wales, was in every part down to John Payne. I was very fortunate to bump into John and his son on Boxing Day 2013 and since then he and I have stayed in contact regularly. In fact, John contributed ...

It has taken nearly 20 years but Qatar will have only a second golf course when the Qatar International Golf Club opens later this year. And unlike many other new golf courses around the world, the Qatar International Golf Club will be unique and not for the sheer size of the work being undertaken at Education City. I still remember vividly reporting in 1999 the second, and what is now annual, Qatar Masters at the Doha Golf Club that had opened two years earlier on the then very outskirts of the ...

One of the most talked about new golfing layouts in Australia is ready to reign among the world’s most majestic golfing locations. Not since the opening of Barnbougle Dunes on the Tasmanian mainland has a new course attracted as much interest as Ocean Dunes. Ocean Dunes is located on King Island virtually in the middle of Bass Strait that divides the Australian mainland from the ‘Apple Isle’ of Tasmania. The island is on the north-west tip of Tasmania and was discovered in 1799 ...

For as many years I fail to remember I have driven through the sleepy township of Bulahdelah located on the banks of the Myall River about 235 klms north of Sydney. First as youngster on route to a family holiday destination and in recent decades either driving or accompanying friends for a weekend away from the ‘big smoke’. And in motoring up-and-down the Pacific Highway that connects Sydney with Brisbane I would pass by Bulahdelah Golf Club. On my latest journey to Sydney that was ...

Three months away from ‘home’ ended with the pleasure of tackling the Faldo Course at Emirates Golf Club. The Majlis Course, and host to the Omega Dubai Desert Classic, remains the benchmark for golf in the Middle East however I’ve come to enjoy the Faldo Course. The Faldo Course is a great mix of holes with no two the same and it’s a golf course where a 15-handicapper like myself can walk away with a bunch of pars that only adds to the enjoyment. And 37 points was a great ...

Much has changed in Doha in 17 years. Walking the Doha Golf Club course inside-the-ropes on the day after the 2016 Commercial Bank Qatar Masters was nothing like the vista when I first attended the tournament in 1999, and a year after the inaugural event. There was no skyline ‘distractions’ back then and just a stunning desert design layout on the very outskirts of the city of Doha. However in that period natural gas and oil was discovered in Qatar resulting in Doha undergoing a remarkable ...