Golf, by TourMiss

Portugal’s top-ranked player and European Tour winner Ricardo Santos now has a new 16 person fan base after meeting with Crail Golfing Society members today at Vilamoura. Ricardo represents Oceanico Golf while competing on the European Tour and was on the Oceanico Victoria practice range where he was introduced to the visiting party from the east coast of Scotland. The now 32-year old Vilamoura-based player sparked emotional scenes two years ago when he became the first Portuguese-born player ...

On a day when the US Open winning pair of Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose along with European No. 1 Henrik Stenson crashed out of the WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship it was ‘Howorth’s Heroes’ storming four points clear of their rivals in Vilamoura. For a second day running John Howorth’s mighty men turned the table on Frank Donnelly’s collection of foes winning 3 & 1 under grey skies on Oceanico Millennium Course at Vilamoura, It means John’s side ...

Forget the $9m Accenture Match-Play Championship as the big golf tournament this week is taking place at Vilamoura on Portugal’s Algarve. Legendary Crail cabby Joe Duddy has drawn first blood in the 2014 Crail Golfing Society ‘Vilamoura Golf Challenge’. Dressed in the most outrageous looking pair of Royal and Awesome trousers and cap, Joe upstaged everyone on the Oceanico Old Course with 35 Stableford points and seven more than second-place George Morris. Joe’s making his ...

Well here we are and the first month of 2014 already behind us and leaving just 11 months to Christmas. We’ve seen the staging of three European Tour events and four on the PGA Tour. In Europe it has been the Spanish dominating with Pablo Larrazabal and Sergio Garcia winning back-to-back while in the States Jimmy Walker won for a second time in capturing the Sony Open. We had rules controversy in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and a week earlier Charl Schwartzel played one of the most remarkable ...

It has long been a must during Qatar Masters week and that is a visit to the Doha Rugby Club. So thanks again for Dave and June Murphy, our hosts for the week, for the opportunity to visit the closest resemblance to a pub in Doha. Here’s a couple of shots of ‘Ronnie’ and myself for your viewing pleasure.

Golf has plenty of legendary figures. In rugby one of the game’s legends is Australia’s George Gregan. The now 30-year old Gregan made more appearances for the Wallabies (Australia’s national rugby team) than any other player in the sport’s history. He played Super 12 for the ACT  Brumbies side from it’s inception of that competition in 1996 through 2007, helping to lead them to overall victories in 2001 and 2004. He is a foundation Brumbies player and one of the few ...

Thanks to Professional Sports Group’s James Lovett a few of us last Saturday had the great pleasure to play the Saadiyat Beach Golf Resort course on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. And while one of our colleagues unfortunately took sick and had to leave the course, it was a wonderful morning to be out playing golf. It was also great to see how Saadiyat is maturing after the pleasure of being present at the official opening some years ago. Hereunder is a handful of snaps from the day .. hope you enjoy ...