Golf, by TourMiss

I have spoken often of the great pleasure in travelling the world reporting on the ancient club-and-ball game and also equally teeing-up in so many different countries. This includes also teeing-up along the shoreline of the world’s oceans and seas and to then have the good fortune to enjoy a round on the opposite shoreline of the same ocean or sea. An example of what I am referring is Australia’s Crescent Head Golf Club course and recently featured on this website (See: http://www.golfbytourmiss.com/2024/12/crescent-head-country-club-a-stunning-6-hole-gem-overlooking-the-mighty-blue-pacific/ ...

One of the great delights of living or visiting Sydney is the dozen and dozens of pristine beaches to the north and south of Australia’s largest city. So, when it comes to golden sand beaches located right on your front doorstep then Sydney has to be the envy of the world as there is close to 100 Pacific Ocean coastline beaches in a 100-kilometre stretch from Palm Beach in the north of the city to Garie Beach in the south. Indeed the entire coastline of the state of New South Wales (NSW) boasts ...

The hosting each year of the Link Hong Kong Open rekindles so many fond memoies for this golf writer. I made my debut at the Hong Kong tournament in 2003 and the then third year hosting of a joint Asian Tour and European Tour tournament that was first staged in 1959. The timing each year of the Hong Kong Open was ideal for me as it was late in the European Tour season and in those earlier career visits, it would break the long journey from my UK base and onwards to Australia to join family and friends ...

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 ...