Golf, by TourMiss

Rory McIlroy’s 11-year wait since capturing a third major at the 2014 PGA Championship in a quest to secure success in the only major championship he requires to join the most exclusive club in golf is now just 18 holes from fruition. McIlroy superbly stamped his enormous class and also reinforced his credentials as the New Year’s best in-form golfer brilliantly posting two eagles and four birdies in a third round second straight score of a six-under 66 to move two shots clear of the ...

Double Augusta National winner Bernhard Langer walked off the 18th green at Augusta National Golf Club with a smile on his face on Friday afternoon, completely overwhelmed with emotion. Langer, having just missed the cut at his 41st and final start at the Masters, took his visor off and waved to the crowd that was situated along the final green. After giving a hug to Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley, the 67-year-old Langer tracked down his family. Then, with his wife Vikki’s hand in his, the ...

Top ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre has disappointingly crashed out of the Masters and with the double PGA Tour winner from last year posting a pair of 75s for a shock six-over tally. MacIntyre was teeing-up in his third Masters and a first in three years however he struggled under the weight of a pair of bogey-laden rounds, including ending his second round with three straight bogeys. The Oban lefty could manage just four birdies over his two rounds but also recorded seven bogeys but also a first ...

A proud World No. 2 Rory McIlroy brilliantly reignited his quest for a maiden Augusta National title with a superb bogey-free six-under par 66 on day two of the Masters. After posting two late opening round double-bogeys in a level par 72, McIlroy superly regrouped grabbing a 13th hole eagle ‘3’ and four birdies to be in the clubhouse at six-under-par and just two adrift of Justin Rose, who could add only a 71 and move to eight-under. McIlroy’s second round is his lowest loop around ...

England’s Justin Rose takes a three-shot lead into the second round of the 89th Masters but already looming large in the former US Open’s rear-view mirror is doublt Masters winning Scottie Scheffler. Scheffler has not won since last December’s Hero World Challenge but that could all change this week where he seeking to capture a third Masters title in four years. And in an interesting statistic Scottie’s birdie at the fourth hole on day one ensures that in 21 rounds of Augusta ...

Former US Open champ Justin Rose will take an impressive three shot lead into the second round of the 89th hosting of the Masters. Rose, contesting his 20th Masters posted a seven-under 65 that including a hat-trick of opening birdies, along with also three birdies in succession mid-round and with the only hiccup being a closing hole bogey to lead the field by three shots. The 44-year-old Englishman, who has been runner-up at Augusta National in 2015 and 2017, is clear of a trio of players in second ...

It was around 4pm on the eve of the Masters and the final preview pieces ahead of the year’s maiden major had been filed. Those afforded invitations to tee-up in the next day’s opening round of the years maiden Major were away either competing in the Par-3 Contest or elsewhere doing what they had to do to prepare themselves for the tournament proper. Golf’s ‘Cathedral in the Pines’, as Augusta National is fondly called, was now closed to any further practice rounds ...