Golf, by TourMiss

Rory McIroy remains determined to break a habit of struggling to make the cut after he birdied the 18th hole to ensure he plays all four rounds of the Players Championship. McIlroy had birdied the hole in a nine-hole practice round on Wednesday and then again on Thursday however when he needed a birdie at 18 to make the cut he found the bottom of the cut with a superb 13-foot gem. Once again, it was deja vu for the double Major winner and not the first time this year managed to just scrape into the ...

Jamie Donaldson knows he can lock-in a first Ryder Cup cap this week after a sizzling second round at the Players Championship. The Welsh golfer continued to display his fondness for playing in Florida with a second round 67 for a four-under par tally in continuing heat wave conditions on the TPC Sawgrass Stadium course. Germany’s Martin Kaymer added a second round 69 to his opening joint course-record 63 to forge to a then seven shot clubhouse lead in the PGA Tour’s $US 10m flagship event. Londoner ...

Scotland’s Scott Henry says drinking a lot of coffee and eating plenty of slices of Madeira cake helped him shoot a five under par 67 and be a two stroke clubhouse lead in the first round of the fog-affected Madeira Islands Open. Fog had forced Thursday’s first day to be abandoned and there was also a near four-hour delay mid-morning today (FRD) as fog again enveloped the 600 metre high Club de Golf Santo da Serra course. The delays has forced Tour officials to reduce the joint European ...

Adam Scott has revealed he was secretly married in his Bahamas backyard and four days after his Masters defence. The Australian married long-time Swedish-born girlfriend Marie Kojzar in a small ceremony on April 17th. Scott is the third Major winner in recent time to tie the knot in the Bahamas with 2011 Open Champion Darren Clarke getting married in the Bahamas in the week after the 2012 Masters. And fellow Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell, who captured the 2010 US Open, was married in the Bahamas ...

Australia’s Adam Scott was probably wishing he had stayed at home with his chances of becoming World No. 1 not being helped when he finished double bogey, double bogey on the opening day of the Players Championship. Scott celebrated the 10th anniversary of his 2004 TPC Sawgrass not the way he wanted in signing for a horror five over par 77. The effort sent the World No. 2 tumbling to near the back of the field in a share of 133rd in the 144-player field and the likelihood now of missing the ...

Despite the heat wave conditions Scotland’s ​Stephen Gallacher felt right at home joining many of his fellow European born competitors in taking advantage of the TPC Sawgrass course to birdie two of his closing three holes in a round of 70 on day one of the Players Championship. Twenty-one European-born players are competing in this week’s PGA Tour flagship $US 10m event and with Gallacher among eight of 11 out in the morning half of the draw to be under par on the Stadium course. Gallacher, ...

Rory McIlroy was again looking and sounding despondent in not being able squeeze more out of his golf on the opening day of the Players Championship. McIlroy birdied the opening two holes on each nine but let slip that good work when five under par after 11 holes to bogey three of his closing seven holes in a two under par 70. “I played pretty well for the first 11 holes, and played well pretty much the whole way around,” he said. “But then I bogeyed two of the short par fours, the second and ...