Golf, by TourMiss

With The Players Championship set to start next week, the PGA TOUR mourns the loss of Calvin Peete, a winner of the event 30 years ago and a pioneer who overcame great physical hardship to become a dominant TOUR player in the 1980s.  Peete died Wednesday morning in Atlanta, Ga.  He was 71. Peete was born July 18, 1943, in Detroit as the eighth of nine children to Dennis and Irenna Peete. He won 12 PGA TOUR titles in his career, and of those dozen victories, 11 of them came between 1982 and 1986—all ...

Here’s a quick look at each of the 32 matches scheduled for today’s (WED) first round of the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Match Play at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. JUSTIN ROSE, England (0-0) vs. MARC LEISHMAN, Australia (0-0), Group 6, 12:50 PM ET Fresh off his win in New Orleans last week, Rose certainly is in form. Meanwhile, Leishman’s only top 10 this season came in November at the HSBC Champions. He just returned to action last week after his wife suffered a medical ...

The inaugural Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match-Play Championship is going to offer those competing on the European Tour valuable match-play experience. With the world’s top-64 teeing up later today (WED) in the WGC – Cadillac Match-Play Championship in San Francisco Lawrie many of those European Tour members not in the top-64 to chance to hone their match-play skills on the Murcar Links course just north of Lawrie’s beloved Aberdeen. The golf media got the chance to catch-up with ...

Former Open  Champion Paul Lawrie has officially launched his inaugural Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match-Play Championship at the Murcar Links Golf Club just north of his beloved Aberdeen. Sixty-four players will tee-up in the event being staged from 30th July to 2nd August. It is the first time in Lawrie’s illustrious career, capped by his Open Championship victory in 1999 at Carnoustie, the Scot will also play host to a European Tour event. And joining Lawrie for this launch this morning ...

If you wondered why ‘Supercaddy’ John ‘Ronnie’ Roberts has not been sighted much this new season the answer is simple. ‘Ronnie’ has been in attendance at every game of his beloved Bournemouth AFC team in their quest to win Premier Division promotion. And it was ‘mission accomplished’ tonight as Bournemouth clearly routed rivals Bolton Wanderers 3 nil to remain in second place on 87 points and three points clear of third place Middlesborough, and with ...

England’s Justin Rose overcame a formidable field and weathered nearly 10 hours of delays and suspensions since Thursday to capture the wet and wild Zurich Classic of New Orleans at TPC Louisiana. Rose played bogey-free golf over his last 66 holes, including 30 on Sunday, on route to a final round 66 and a tournament record of 266 (22-under), to secure his seventh victory on the PGA Tour. The Bahamas-based Rose birdied the closing two holes to become the third England-born player to win the ...

Wu Ashun became the first Chinese player to win a European Tour event on home soil as he held off a spirited challenge from England’s David Howell at the Volvo China Open. The 29 year old Wu, currently ranked 247th in the world,  shot a closing 71 that included eight pars in succession from the 11th hole at Tomson Shanghai Pudoing Golf Club to finish on nine under par for the week – one shot ahead of Howell, who missed an eight foot par putt on the last which would have forced a play-off. Wu, ...