Golf, by TourMiss

Sweden’s Henrik Stenson believes his Open Championship record is good enough to deny double Major winning Jordan Spieth glory next month at St. Andrews. Spieth will tee-up at the Home of Golf for a first time as a professional looking to become the first player ever to capture the opening three Majors in a single season. However Stenson, who shared the lead after the opening day last week at Chambers Bay, will be hoping his record not only on the Old Course at St. Andrews but in recent Open ...

Shane Lowry returns to European competition insisting he could have won last week’s U.S.Open. Lowry’s new European Tour stature has been quickly rewarded with tee times alongside Tour superstars Martin Kaymer and Henrik Stenson for the opening two rounds of the BMW International Open in Munich. Lowry superb U.S. Open showing saw him finish the joint leading European alongside World No. 1 Rory McIlroy in sharing ninth place and also in what was Lowry’s equal highest result in a Major ...

An early in-flight medical emergency left three of Scotland’s top golfers grounded at East Midlands Airport in England while on route to this week’s BMW International Open in Munich. Craig Lee, Scott Jamieson and David Drysdale were aboard an Easyjet direct flight earlier this week when a passenger took seriously ill shortly after take-off from Edinburgh. The only doctor on board was fellow Scot Dr. Anne Dunbar who co-incidentally is employed by the European Tour and was bound to Munich where ...

Double Major winning Martin Kaymer is pleased to back home on home soil and head the billing in this week’s BMW International Open, in Munich. Kaymer bowed out early in defence of his US Open title last week, missing the cut at Chambers Bay, but that gave him additional time back in his native Germany to rest and prepare for a busy week ahead at Golfclub München Eichenried. The two-time Major Champion, who plays the first two rounds with Henrik Stenson and Shane Lowry, is the star attraction ...

There is now a million reasons to be happy in winning golf’s oldest major – the Open Championship. The R & A have  announced the winner of this year’s 144th Open Championship will receive a first prize cheque for £1,150,000. And the this year’s Open Championship purse will rise to £6,300,000, an increase of £900,000 on the 2014 total. The Champion will receive £1,150,000, up £175,000 from the previous year. It’s a long way from 1864 when Old Tom Morris was presented ...

Henrik Stenson had the luxury of flying by private jet direct from last week’s U.S. Open to this week’s BMW International Open in Munich but there was no escaping trans-Atlantic jet lag. It’s fine crossing the Atlantic from east to west but the Swede found himself heavily jet-lagged up travelling from west to east arriving in the Bavarian capital despite enjoying the comforts of a direct 9 1/2 hour flight. “We landed here in Munich on Monday afternoon and it was one of those ...

Shane Lowry has returned to Europe looking ahead to the next step in his career – Major Championship glory. This is after the Irishman finished equal top-European at last week’s U.S. Open at Chambers Bay in Washington State. Lowry, who had worn all-black all week in a mark of respect for the Irish students who died after a balcony collapse in California, ended tied in ninth place with World No. 1 Rory McIlroy. And while Lowry has won just two events in his career, the 2009 Irish Open and 2012 ...