Golf, by TourMiss

For someone who has been most fortunate to attend the Masters for 23-years, and enjoyed the honour of playing Augusta National twice, including breaking 100 on both occasions, here’s a few observations that I hope may whet your appetite a little ahead of this coming week’s 90th hosting of The Masters. THE 1934 MAIDEN MASTERS HAD TO BORROW FUNERAL CHAIRS FOR SEATING …. The first “Augusta National Invitation Tournament”, as the Masters was originally known, began on March 22, ...

Crail Golfing Society is golf’s seventh oldest club and it is proud to announce work on the Practice and Performance Hub has picked-up pace with the site now considerably drier, and construction firm Algo have been able to accelerate activity to catch up for the delays caused by the heavy rain. Algo’s construction team worked late into the evening to ensure the full concrete pour was finished in a single continuous operation. Building Control has since carried out its first inspection and ...

  Wishing all our many, many golfing friends a very happy and enjoyable 2026 golfing year. So, as we look foward to the year ahead what is top of your New Year golfing wish list? Is it to break 100?  Maybe it’s posting your lowest round of golf or maybe play a round without any dropped shots. Could it be simply setting yourself the goal of finally winning one of the Saturday medal outings or a weekly stableford competition that could lead hopefully to a first-ever club championship honour? You ...

December 30th, 2025 – Tiger Woods turns the big FIVE ZERO … A very special happy 50th birthday to Tiger Woods and with GolfByTourMiss delighted to share in Tiger’s birthday looking back over the past 50-years, admiring the golfer who single-handedly changed the very landscape of the ancient club-and-ball game. We’ve chosen a mix of 30-odd Woods related notes dealing with his career, and sharing some of our own Tiger-related memories from being in his presence, as he competed ...

The 2026 Road to Mallorca will feature 28 tournaments taking place in 19 countries on three continents, and boasting a prize fund of €9 million for the second successive year. It will also mark the second of a multi-year partnership with technology company HotelPlanner as Title Partner. The 28-tournament HotelPlanner Tour schedule returns to England for the first time since 2023, with the England Golf Challenge supported by HotelPlanner taking place at The Vale Golf Club in June, before The Caversham ...

One of the more recent delights in travelling to the Middle East for rounds of the DP World Tour has been visiting the UAE emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah and tackling the wonderful Al Hamra course. Al Hamra is very easy 90-minute or so drive north of Dubai through the Emirate of Sharjah and onto Ras Al-Khaimah, and with the golf course and surrounding hotels among the first items of interest in visiting a very laid back emirate than compared with Dubai. Among those ‘items’ is the stunning ...

Exclusive …. Famed Scottish golfing gem Kingbarns Links has celebrated it’s 25th anniversary with the unveiling of  a specially commissioned Graeme Baxter painting. Kingbarns Links owner Art Dunkley travelled from California while renowed golfing artist Graeme Baxter from his own residence in Texas to be on-hand within the Kingsbarns Links clubhouse for the official unveiling of a painting of Kingsbarns Links par-3 15th hole. BREAKING NEWS … Kingsbarns Links ⛳️celebrates 2⃣5⃣ ...