Golf, by TourMiss

David Drysdale and caddy/wife Vicky celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary​ today (SUNDAY) sky high jetting from Qatar to Arizona and Tuesday’s starting 2025 Champions Tour final qualifier. The affable Scottish couple ​toasted their ‘China’ marriage milestone last night (Saturday Qatar time) in a Doha restaurant after Drysdale posted a final round 75 to share 57th place at the International Series Qatar in the Qatar capital. American Peter Uihlein stormed his way to a five-shot success ...

  The Madeira archipeligo situated in the north Atlantic Ocean to the south-west of Portugal was last week named ‘World’s Best Emerging Golf Destination’ for its trio of acclaimed venues – Clube de Golf Santo da Serra, Palheiro Golf and Porto Santo Golfe – underlining exactly why it was selected to host the golf industry’s annual showpiece event. Then two days later, the World Travel Awards crowned its host as the ‘World’s Leading Island Destination,’ topping ...

Not for a moment in looking back over the past 30-years when I lost my then full-time job working for a politician following the governments defeat in an Australian State election and then bizarrely two days later winning a golf tournament promotion, would I have thought in becoming a full-time golf journalist it would lead to me now having played golf in 47 different countries (As of 1st November, 2024). My first round of golf in growing up in northern Sydney suburb of Willoughby was at the nine-hole ...

There is some really great names when it comes to naming golf holes. Famed holes that feature on the Open Championship rota while each April the focus of the golf world is the Masters at Augusta National and golf hole names that most fans of the ancient club-and-ball game are very familiar. Here is a small selection of famed golf holes and some not that well known. * The Road Hole – 17th on the Old Course at St. Andrews (Long been one of the hardest holes in golf) * Calamity Corner – ...

When is the last time, and if there ever was a first occasion, when your game of golf was warmly interrupted when the son of the owner of the golf course you were in the process of tackling had the full Irish breakfast laid out for you on the bonnet of his car parked at the back of one of the golf holes? It happened one day when legendary golf journalist Dai Davies and myself were playing the famed European Club in Ireland. Dai, who wrote The Guardian newpaper and sadly passed away in 2008, and ...

Recent headlines of spectator price rises for the hosting of the 2025 Ryder Cup took my mind back a good few years and the day we were extended the invitation to tee-up on the famed host Bethpage Park Black course. Actually, it was just over six years ago the PGA of America generously arranged a media outing in August 2018 ahead of the 2019 PGA Championship, and when Brooks Koepka was handed the Rodman Wanamaker trophy for a second straight year. I had taken photographs from the outing that I found ...

….. by Bernie McGuire In visiting Segregansett Country Club for a first time, and seeing the sign indicating the club was founded in 1893 had me immediatately thinking this must be one of the oldest golf clubs in the United States. Though what took me to Segregansett was its connection with Francis Ouimet, the then 20-year-old amateur who remarkably captured the 1913 US Open by defeating two of the greats of the game. The Segregansett club is located some 45 miles south of Boston and close ...