Golf, by TourMiss

There’s one American-born Ryder Cup hopeful who does not believe Rory McIlroy will be the target at this year’s Ryder Cup. Hunter Mahan put himself in frame for one of Tom Watson’s three ‘wildcard’ picks with victory last week in New Jersey. But should the American be afforded a Gleneagles pick then he doesn’t see McIlroy as the European walking about Gleneagles with a target on his back. “In previous years if you beat Tiger in a match, then that was like winning two points ...

FedEx Cup Play-Off Series leader Hunter Mahan has defended criticism of Canadian-born coach Sean Foley after Tiger Woods announced he was splitting working with Foley. Woods decision not to further work with Foley has been seen in many circles as a rebuttal on the part of the 14-time Major winning Woods in that he has not captured a Major since Foley began working with him four years ago. The announcement of the split came just a day after Mahan, who also works with Foley, ended a two-and-a-half ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has doused any burn out fears ahead of the Ryder Cup declaring to European captain Paul McGinley ‘put me in every Gleneagles match’. McIlroy will tee up later today (FRD) in the opening round of the $8m Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston and the second of the four FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. It is also McIlroy’s sixth event in seven weeks and when including the next two events in Denver and Atlanta, he will have played eight of nine weeks since the Scottish Open ...

He’s only 25-years of age but then Rory McIlroy admits he’s very much at ease in spending time with some of the world’s more famous individuals including former US President Bill Clinton. We reported earlier this week McIlroy had lunch with the 42nd President of the United States at Richie Nota’s Harlow East seafood restaurant at Sag Harbor on Long Island. Also present was Wall Street investment banker and avid golfer Jimmy Dunne, a senior managing principal of Sandler-O’Neil ...

Rory McIlroy has been spending two days on Long Island since watching Andy Murray struggle on Monday to get through his opening US Open match. On Tuesday he shared lunch with former US President Bill Clinton at a swanky Sag Harbor restaurant. Then in the afternoon (TUES) the four-time Major champion was out playing a social match on the famed Shinnecock Hills and venue for four US Open’s in three different centuries and again to hos the Major in 2018. McIlroy then spent yesterday (TUES) playing ...

Paul McGinley understands from personal experience the pressure facing the one player – Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher – who has the chance at this week’s Italian Open of breaking into the European Tour. If Gallacher should finish first or second then he can pack his bags for the 35-mile journey to the course he virtually knows like the back of his hand – Gleneagles. And McGinley is acutely aware of the situation Gallacher finds himself having secured a place in Bernhard ...

Sweden’s Henrik Stenson visited the famed Wall Street Stock Exchange ahead of his defence of this week’s Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston. Stenson, dressed in a suit and tie, also got to ring the ceremonial bell to start proceedings at the world’s busiest stock exchange. And as he walked around the trading floor the quick-witted Stenson remarked:  “If it’s not a good trading day, then it’s my fault.”