Golf, by TourMiss

A big Happy Birthday to Nicolas Colsaerts. The Belgium golfer turns 32 years old today and celebrated the occasion in the company of his parents Danielle and Patrick who were photographed with the two-time European Tour winner and 2012 Ryder Cup star on the balcony of the Montgomerie Maxx Royal clubhouse. However it was a stop-start day in the Turkish Airlines Open for Nicolas and all 78 competitors. Thunderstorms forced a halt to play at 12.04pm local time and with the Tour then announcing at 2.30pm ...

Victorious Ryder Cup winning rookie Victor Dubuisson was in need of urgent on-course medical treatment on day two of the Turkish Airlines Open. The French golfing ace suffers from allergies and was overcome with a nose bleed from his right nostril before play in the $US 7m event was halted at 12.04pm local time with the threat of thunderstorms in the region of the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course at Belek. England’s Ian Poulter had picked up five shots in 14 holes to move one shot clear on the field ...

Turkey is back in the bidding for the 2022 Ryder Cup. Despite correspondence to the Tour it was withdrawing as a 2022 contender the Turkish Minister for Youth and Sports Akif Çagatay Kiliç has confirmed Turkey has reinstated its bid for the 2022 Ryder Cup and is now among six countries vying to stage the event. Denmark had been mentioned a bidder but sources from within Denmark indicated all that Denmark sought was the ‘eligibility papers’ and never once advised the Tour of a formal ...

Scotland’s Marc Warren has joined a chorus of concern in slamming the new point’s distribution of the European Tour’s Final Four Series declaring the new system is ‘ridiculous’. Warren teed up on the opening day of the Turkish Airlines Open flying high at 23rd on the Race to Dubai money list and the assurance of his best-ever season in nine years competing on the Tour. However heading into the second round at four shots off the lead Warren’s annoyed all his hard work in 26 prior events ...

Double Major winning John Daly has poured cold water on the setting up of a USA Ryder Cup task force and declaring either Phil Mickelson or Tiger Woods should lead the American team in 2016 at Hazeltine. Daly, who posted an opening round of 69 in the Turkish Airlines Open, captured the 1991 PGA Championship and 1995 British Open but remains the only American-born major winner not to compete in a Ryder Cup. However Daly has been around long enough he says the answer to the USA Team ending a run of ...

Ian Poulter is back using the putter that helped steer him to third place in last year’s Open Championship in putting his way to second spot on the opening day of the Turkish Airlines Open. Poulter grabbed an eagle, seven birdies and had just one bogey in ideal scoring conditions on the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course in Belek. It left the Woburn golfing wonder trailing just one shot behind near 51-year old Miguel Angel Jimenez who again upstaged his younger rivals with a sizzling 63 and just one ...

Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez again upstaged his much younger rivals grabbing an eagle and seven birdies in a nine under par 63 to lead the first round of the Turkish Airlines Open. The 50-year old Jimenez had just 23 putts in ideal scoring conditions on the Montgomerie Maxx Royal Course in Belek. Jimenez’s effort was also just a shot shy of the course record and with the pony-tailed golfer ending the opening day of the $US 7m event one shot clear of England’s Ian Poulter. Three players – ...