Washington DC – A Trip Down Memory Lane
Reporting on this week’s 2011 U.S. Open has been like a trip down memory lane.
Not because I was here in 1997 when Ernie Els held off Colin Montgomerie to win a second U.S. Open title.
No, it’s a little more sentimental than that.
From 1978 to 1981, my parents Terry and Joan McGuire resided in Rockville, Maryland and no more than about a 15-minute drive from the front gates of the Congressional Club.
After winning an appeal, my father was appointed to a Department of Navy position ...
Close Encounter With Senator John McCain
No sooner had Lufthansa announced that ‘First Class’, ‘Senator Class’ and ‘Star Alliance Gold Card’ passengers could board Flight 418 from Frankfurt to Washington D.C. and a genuine Senator in John McCain appeared.
McGain, who lost the U.S. Presidential race to Barak Obama, had been in Germany for a few days on business.
He was escorted to the airport by German officials and took a window seat in Business Class accompanied by an assistant.
The arrival of the Republican Senator ...
Italy At It’s Best -Thanks To The European Tour.
Once again, the European Tour hosted the international media to dinner during BMW Italian Open week.
Thirteen of us sat down in a great restaurant to be treated to a wonderful array of Italian food.
Of course, there was copious quantities of red and white wines along with a number of ‘heart warmer’s ‘ including Grappa and Limoncello to end a superb evening.
It’s become one of the highlights in covering the event, so a very special thanks again to Jamie Birkmyre from ...
Tour Miss Visits Historic Boat Of Garten
There is a double history lesson in visting the Boat of Garten course in the Scottish Highlands.
Located about 25 miles south of Inverness, Boat of Garten was designed by the legendary James Braid.
Braid captured five British Open titles (1901, ’05, ’06, ’08 and ’10) and designed courses the length and breadth of Britain.
Strangely, we were present at Walton Heath last Monday for the 36-hole US Open qualifyier at Walton Heath and where Braid was based for much of his professional ...
Mollie Scores An Ace With Her ‘Golfing’ Cake
Once again it’s BMW PGA Championship and the flagship event of the European Tour season.
Organisers have managed to assemble one of the best fields to gather at Wentworth for some time headed by the World’s top three ranked golfers in Lee Westwood, Luke Donald and Martin Kaymer.
Also the current four Major Champions in Kaymer (US PGA winner), Graeme McDowell (US Open), Louis Oosthuizen (Open Championship) and Charl Schwartzel (Masters) will tee-up on the ‘Burma Road’ course.
It ...
Tour Miss Tackles Archerfield In ‘Monty’s Monthly Medal’ Media Outing.
Tour Miss was invited to the official launch of ‘Monty’s Monthly Medal’ which is a joint Scottish Golf Union & Scottish Ladies Golf Union initiative to help raise funds for two cancer treatment buildings in Scotland.
You will find details of the initiative in our NEWS section.
However with thanks to organisers of Wednesday’s funciton at Archerfield hereunder is some snaps from the media outing.
Thank you also to the Scottish Golf Union, Scottish Ladies Golf Union, Aberdeen ...
Tour Miss Visits Kent’s Regal Golf Coast
Golfbymiss.com accepted an invitation from the R & A to play Royal St. George’s and host for this year’s Open Championship.
To coincide with the visit, two other golf clubs in Royal Cinque Ports and Princess, and lying at opposite sides to Royal St. George’s, also invited the media to play their courses.
It was three days of excellent weather on three super golf courses on the south-east England coastline in Kent.
Firstly, we took to Royal Cinque Ports located on the outskirts of ...
