Golf, by TourMiss

Royal Troon has very smartly brought forward a vote on allowing women full membership of the club to host this year’s 145th Open Championship. The club will host a special general meeting on July 1, less than a fortnight before the 2016 Open begins, to consider whether to change its policy, which currently bars women from joining. “Following our consultation with members, the committee of the Royal Troon Golf Club is moving to convene a special general meeting … at which we will ...

Ryder Cup Captain Davis Love 111 says Tiger Woods is fast running out of time if he’s to qualify for the USA Team. It’s now 130 days till the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine but the golf world is no closer to knowing when Woods will return to competition. In fact, Woods has not teed up since last August in finishing T10th on debut in the Wyndham Championship. Love 111 will meet again with many of those likely to qualify for his team during the course of this week’s Jack Nicklaus hosted Memorial in Ohio. However, ...

US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has slammed the PGA Tour over a decision to dump Trump Doral as venue for the annual WGC – Cadillac Championship. Instead, the $10m event, and where Rory McIlroy hurled a club into the water last year, is headed to Mexico City. Trump released a statement saying:- “It is a sad day for Miami, the United States and the game of golf, to have the PGA Tour consider moving the World Golf Championships, which has been hosted in Miami for the last 55 years, to ...

Turnberry has reassured the golf world it is still very much on the Open Championship rota to host golf’s oldest major with the unveiling of stunning new changes to the Ailsa course. Since the staging of the 2009 Open, and won by American Stewart Cink, Turnberry has been taken over by the Trump organisation and now has been renamed as Trump Turnberry. It immediately prompted criticism in some quarters, and given Donald Trump’s very controversial stance of some matters, Turnberry should be stripped ...

It’s been just over 12 months since Turnberry was closed for major changes to the course that has played host to five Open Championship. However in the intervening period there has been an incredible amount of work undertaken at what is now Trump Turnberry. The biggest change is the 9th hole and now a stunning par 3 over water. See the photos below

Young Melbourne amateur Cameron John now has something in common with American golfing heart-throb Rickie Fowler – they’ve both won at Gullane No. 1 in Scotland. John shot a new amateur course record 63 in the morning’s third round that helped him to a stunning four-shot victory in the Carrick Neill Scottish Open Stroke Play Championship to the east of Edinburgh. Competing in superb Scottish Spring weather the 17-year-old from Melbourne held off a strong Scottish challenge from Grant ...

European Tour CEO Keith Pelley is confident a new ‘strategic alliance’ will be reached shortly with the Asian Tour so that it will be in place heading into the 2017 season. One of Pelley’s first initiatives in taking over the European Tour last August was to announce a proposal to reinforce the strengths of the two Tours by maximizing global opportunities, as well as increasing playing opportunities and prize funds for the respective memberships. The alliance was seen as a natural extension ...