Golf, by TourMiss

Honfleur is a lovely-looking city in the department of Calvados, in northern France’s Normandy region. Founded by Vikings in the 800s, Honfleur has served for centuries as a port for trade and travel. The town is located on the estuary where the Seine river meets the English Channel. The Church of St. Catherine (see You Tube video), dates from the second half of the 15th century, replaced an older stone church which was destroyed during the Hundred Years’ War. The Vieux-Bassin (old harbour), ...

In between travelling for a first time to the island of Arran and making the journey to the Outer Hebrides we made a visit to Campbelltown. It’s a Scottish town down towards the Mull of Kintyre and where we have travelled before and on this latest occasion we stopped over in August 2022 Scottish golfing visit. Campbeltown is situated on the stunning peninsula of Kintyre, and the largest towns in Argyll.  It’s a long drive from the main highway leading from Glasgow to the A-83 turnoff ...

It was 2012 when I first visited the remote Isle of Barra golf course in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Since then I’ve been fortunate enough to return to the islands in 2015, 2016, 2019 and last year in August 2022, and when making a third visit to Barra. Five visits .. Now is that not a strong recommendation? The Isle of Barra course lays claim to the most westerly golf course in the UK.  You can’t go any further west or you would arrive on the shores of Canada. The golf course is ...

If you’re read my articles on the ‘Course Features’ section on this website you may gather many of the stories have been researched and posted following visits to golf courses made during the course of reporting on events while on the various Tours. Whether it be on the PGA Tour, the Asian Tour, the Australasian Tour or the DP World Tour there’s always been a welcome door open for the visiting media to play a local golf course. And there can better course to tackle than visiting ...

A day after the crowning of a new men’s U.S. Open champion one of the world’s oldest clubs is celebrating the 25 th anniversary of the Gil Hanse designed Craighead Links course at Crail Golfing Scotland in Scotland. Hanse’s redesign work in Beverly Hills was on show last week for golf fans around the world to admire, while also testing the ancient club-and-ball game’s best ahead of American Wyndham Clark grabbing the golfing oscar in being crowned the 123 rd U.S. Open champion. The ‘Silver ...

Two closing birdies, including a penultimate hole monster 40-footer, handed Scot David Law a six-way share of the lead heading to the final round of the Porsche European Open in Hamburg. Law, 30, was struggling at one-over for his round through 13 holes before draining the lengthy putt at the par-3 17th and then two-putting the last from 46-feet also for birdie, in a round of a one-under 72 and a six-under tally on the tough Green Eagle course. Six players – Law, England’s Jordan Smith (72), ...

Rome rival Ryder Cup captains Luke Donald and Zack Johnson are among a host of PGA Tour stars teeing-up Monday at 10 sites (Nine in the US & one in Canada) seeking to qualify for the June 15-18 US Open at the Los Angeles (Calif.) Country Club’s North Course. The 10 qualifying sites where players will compete over 36-holes include: ►Lambton Golf & Country Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ►Hillcrest Country Club, Los Angeles Calif. ►Pine Tree Golf Club, Boynton Beach, Fla. ►Hawks Ridge ...