Golf, by TourMiss

Australia’s Jason Day will be hoping his mother’s special ‘salty chicken’ and what he describes as a ‘Heart Attack in a Box’  will lead to victory an emotional charged victory in the World Cup of Golf in Melbourne. Day overhauled third round leader Thomas Bjorn of Denmark with three birdies in his closing six holes in a score of a three under par 68 for a nine under par tally on yet another bright but testing day on the Royal Melbourne course. Bjorn let slip his grip ...

Richardo Santos continues to be one of the big surprises in this year’s ISPS Handa World Cup of Golf despite a late round hiccup on day three of the $8m event. The Portugal player has traveled to Australia for a fist time in his career and he’s now within reach of grabbing the $US 1.2m first prize cheque for individual honours. Santos posted two rounds of 69 to be just among just four players to have shot under 70 over the first two days. “I played really solid, even better than ...

Adam Scott will look to draw on Royal Melbourne memories of nearly a decade ago in an outside chance of capturing individual honours in the 2013 ISPS Handa World Cup of Golf. The World No. 2 posted a second straight three under par 68 to move inside the top-10 with an overall three under par tally. Scott had five birdies in his round and just two bogeys as he looked to fight back from the horrors of his opening round 75 on the course where he successfully defended last week’s Australian Masters ...

Welshman Stuart Manley surely must have created a first ever in golf with a remarkable and bizarre start to his third round of the 2013 World Cup of Golf in  Melbourne. Manley began with the following scores – birdie, birdie, hole-in-one and then taking an ’11’ at the par four, fourth hole. The 34-year old Welsh golfer, who regained his full European Tour card at last week’s Q-School, hit an 8-iron into the par three third hole and thought he had won himself a brand new Mercedes ...

It must be something a handful of golfers near the lead in the World Cup of Golf and having pregnant wives. The wives of three of the leading five players – American Kevin Streelman, Scotland’s Martin Laird and Portugal’s Ricardo Santos – are each expecting babies within the course of the next few months. The Streelman’s are expecting their first child in eight weeks.  Laird’s wife, Megan is expecting the couple’s first child the week of March’s Tampa Bay Championship that Streelman ...

If Graeme McDowell got his way he would play the ‘Grand old lady of Australian golf’ that is Royal Melbourne for two months ahead of every Masters and British Open. McDowell had just walked form the 18th green for a second day disappointed after missing a short putt for par and after taking a double on the same hole twenty four hours earlier. However his displeasure was short-lived in singing the praise of the course designed by legendary Dr. Alister McKenzie, who also laid out Augusta National. “I ...

Martin Laird is soaking up the extensive Royal Melbourne course knowledge of his new caddy as he strives for individual honours in the World Cup of Golf in Melbourne, Australia. Laird has the Kiwi-born Michael Waite, or more affectionately known as ‘Sponge’,  full-time on his bag after the pair hooked up for a first time in the recent Las Vegan International and then also at the recent PGA Tour CIMB Classic in Malaysia. It was Billy Foster, and the former long-time caddy to Lee Westwood, ...