Golf, by TourMiss

The PGA Tour has ‘tweaked’ the number of points awarded for each of the four FedExCup Playoff tournaments. Beginning in 2015, The Barclays, Deutsche Bank Championship, BMW Championship and TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola will award 2,000 points for a victory (down from 2,500) with all other places being reduced by the same proportion.   “Every year since the FedExCup was introduced in 2007, we have reviewed the points structure with the Player Advisory Council and four Player Directors ...

You’ve watched the pros throw clubs and loose their head after missing putts. And you’ve no doubt done the same yourself … well, I know have but then that’s my Irish ancestry. But check out the temper tantrums of all temper tantrums. It’s had me in stitches and here’s guessing it will do the same to you.

Adam Scott is defending this week’s Australian PGA Championship at the Royal Pines course on Queensland’s Gold Coast but then the World No. 3 was spotted today at the Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida. That’s a difference of 14,582 kilometers from the east coast of Australia to the east Gulf of Mexico shoreline. Our photographs below show the 2013 Masters champion features on the side panels of a Mercedes van and with Mercedes adding to the $3.1m Greg Norman tournament with a ...

Graeme McDowell has his eyes set ending his season by opening a $385,000 prize gift under the giant Christmas tree in front of the Tiburon Golf Club clubhouse in Naples, Florida. The amount is a half share of first place in the Greg Norman hosted Franklin Templeton Shootout, an 18-man team’s event being staged over three days on the west coast of the Sunshine State. It is McDowell’s fourth appearance in the event and his first since 2010, but also his final tournament of the season. “It’s ...

by Fatiha Betscher, Tiburon Country Club, Naples, Florida. Franklin Templeton Shootout host Greg Norman expressed his shock at Tiger Woods poor short game during the course of last week’s Hero World Challenge. Woods finished in a distant share of last place on the Isleworth course and in his first event in four months. While the long game of the former World No. 1 ranked Woods was praiseworthy he horribly ‘fluffed’ a number of chip shots over the course of the four rounds. “Quite ...

American Billy Horschel has bluntly declared the setting up of a task force to investigate the last Ryder Cup and to also appoint a replacement USA Team captain as ‘a lot of political BS’. Despite capturing the closing two events of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Play-Off Series Horschel missed out on a maiden USA Ryder Cup team cap given the qualifying process had ended weeks earlier at the PGA Championship. The Texan also missed out on being named by Tom Watson as a Gleneagles ‘wildcard ...

Double Major winning Greg Norman is the latest big name in golf to express surprise the PGA of America has set-up a task force to appoint a USA Captain to replace Tom Watson. Norman, who was also a losing International captain in two President Cup encounters, has declared ‘it’s not rocket science’ why Europe have captured eight of the past 10 Ryder Cup matches, The PGA of America announced the setting up of an 11-man task force soon after Phil Mickelson’s controversial comments ...