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Five-time Open Champion Peter Thomson has welcomed news golf’s oldest Major is returning in 2019 to Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland. The R & A along with the Northern Ireland Executive and officials from Royal Portrush will host a press conference at 12.30 pm Monday whereby Royal Portrush will be invited to host golf’s oldest Major Championship. Under the guidelines of the club’s constitution the invitation will be put to the members who will vote on the issue. However it ...

The R & A along with the Northern Ireland Executive will announce next Monday that the Royal Portrush Club will be invited to host the 2019 Open Championship. While www.golfbytourmiss.com reported this some time ago the golf world is now abuzz with reports coming out of this week’s U.S. Open hinting confirmation golf’s oldest Major will be returning to the Co. Antrim golfing gem for only a second time since hosting the event in 1951. However the decision to host The Open rests with ...

Graeme McDowell out-gunned his good friend and fellow Northern Irishman, along with fellow U.S.Open winner Rory McIlroy on the opening day of this year’s U.S. Open. McDowell, who captured the 2010 U.S. Open along the shores of the Pacific Ocean at Pebble Beach, found one of the shortest routes around Pinehurst No. 2 with a two under par 68. It gave McDowell a share of second place with American Kevin  Na and burly Zimbabwean Branden De Jong. However the trio found themselves upstaged by Germany’s ...

American Rickie Fowler endeared himself to fans on the opening day of the 2014 U.S. Open Championship. Fifteen years after the late Payne Stewart wore his customary ‘Plus Fours’ to victory in the 1999 U.S. Open on Pinehurst No. 2 and Fowler turned out in similar clothing.   Fowler birdied his second and fourth holes but dropped shots at six and nine ahead of nine straight inward half pars to end his day with a level par 70.

Germany’s Martin Kaymer has powered his way to a three shot lead on day one of the 2014 U.S. Open. Kaymer shot a five under par 65 on the Pinehurst course in North Carolina. The reigning Players Championship winner, with Scotland’s Craig Connelly on the  bag, stormed past the trio of Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell, American Kevin Na and South African Branden De Jong, to birdie three of his closing four holes on day one of the Germany’s seventh straight U.S. Open appearance. Kaymer ...

U.S. Open favourite Rory McIlroy has dismissed any injury concern heading to this week’s championship at Pinehurst No. 2. The double Major winning McIlroy is believed to have tweaked his knee during the opening round of last fortnight’s Memorial. There was suggestions of ligament damage but the 25-year old Northern Irishman shrugged off any concern as he targets a second U.S. Open success in three years. “No, my knee is absolutely fine,” he said in an article by good friend ...

Australia’s Jason Day will draw of memories of his late father in seeking to secure victory on Father’s Day in this year’s U.S. Open. Day, who is fully recovered from a thumb injury he re-aggravated during the Masters, spoke of this father ahead of teeing up Thursday at Pinehurst No. 2. “It was my dad who got me into golf when I was three,” he recalled. “He found a golf club at the rubbish tip and he always knew that I wanted to bang a ball or do something with ...