Golf, by TourMiss

Legendary coach Peter Cowen is one golf’s best-known and more successful coaches but he believes an aging Tiger Woods will never regain the invincibility that earned the American 14 Major Championship victories. Cowen coaches the likes of former European and PGA Tour Number One Henrik Stenson, past U.S.Open winner Graeme McDowell along with England’s prolific-winning Lee Westwood and more recently had begun working with former European No. 1 Robert Karlsson. Cowen is in attendance at around 30 ...

Defending champion Justin Rose was genuinely concerned first in hitting a spectator but then seeing a 14- year old witness to the incident feint and also collapse on the second day of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open at Gullane. Rose hit a wayward drive down the left side of the 16 th fairway that hit an elderly man in the head and with the spectator first collapsing to the ground before the male teenager, who was unrelated to the spectator, feinted at the sight of the wound. On-course ...

Shane Lowry felt right at home muscling his way to within three shots of the lead on the opening day of the Scottish Open at Gullane. Lowry birdied two of his opening three holes and then drained birdie putts at 10 and the 16th to be sharing 10th place with fellow Irishman Graeme McDowell. Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen posted a seven under par 63 to head the field by one stroke from England’s Daniel Brooks who was in the very last group and birdied the last at 8.30pm. Seven players share second ...

Peter Cowen’s coaching academy near Sheffield has been broken into 25 times including seven break-ins this year alone but fortunately tapes of Graeme McDowell’s golf swing in 2010 remain secure. Cowen replayed the tapes to McDowell ahead of the Ulsterman shooting a four under par 66 on the opening day of the Scottish Open at Gullane. McDowell, who has missed the cut in his past two European Tour starts, had raced to six under par before bogeying his closing two holes in a four under par 66 on ...

He once got injured jumping off a camel so Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen can sympathize with injured World No. 1 Rory McIlroy as he set about ending a miserable run of outs in grabbing a one shot lead on the opening day of the Scottish Open at Gullane. Olesen, 25 capped his effort with three birdies in succession near the end of his round in a seven under par 63 in bright but breezy conditions to east of Edinburgh. The Dane arrived in Scotland having missed the halfway cut in eight of his 11 events ...

South African and former Scottish and Australian Open winner Tim Clark is the latest player to be in doubt for next week’s Open Championship. However unlike World No. 1 Rory McIlroy Clark is not carrying an injury. Being born in South Africa Clark needs a visa to enter the UK. Also a two-time PGA Tour winner Clark says the UK is the “hardest place to go” since the country tightened its laws on travel. “Most places I need a visa, but they make it extremely difficult and I don’t ...

Graeme McDowell says it’s a ‘massive blow’ World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has withdrawn from next week’s Open Championship at St. Andrews. McIlroy confirmed he will not tee up next week in the defence of the famed Claret Jug as he continues to recover from a ruptured ligament in his left ankle and the legacy of a friendly football match last weekend. McDowell was contesting a Pro-Am ahead of today’s (THR) Scottish Open start when  he learnt of McIlroy’s withdrawal from golf’s ...