Golf, by TourMiss

Dane Thomas Björn overcame a four-putt double bogey to sign for a round of 66 and take a share of the lead on the opening day of the ISPS HANDA World Cup of Golf. Björn, bidding to become the first Danish winner of the World Cup of Golf in his fifth appearance in the competition, fell victim to Royal Melbourne Golf Club’s lightning fast greens on the fourth hole, but bounced back with six birdies to finish the first day level with Kevin Streelman on five under par. Björn and fellow Denmark ...

Royal Melbourne jumped up to bite Adam Scott just four days after the World No. 2 successfully defended his Australian Masters title. Scott was one under through nine holes but then walked off the par four, 12th hole with a quintuplet bogey ‘9’. The reigning Masters champion hit his drive into trees and then played a provisional that also went into the trees.  He failed to find the first ball but in finding the second he elected to take an unplayable penalty drop by taking his fifth shot back ...

Welshman Stuart Manley had less than a few hours home in Cardiff after securing his Tour card for 2014 that all he had time for was change his suitcase, kiss his wife Nicole and also plant a kiss ‘more importantly as he said’ on the family dog, Griff. Manley returns to the European Tour after a three year absence having finished 10th among the leading graduates at last Friday’s six-round conclusion to the 2014 Race to Dubai Q-School in Spain. It was the 34-year old’s 10th ...

EUROPEAN Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley has played a starring role in a new £5.3m campaign by VisitScotland to promote the multitude of global events taking place in the country in 2014. The 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles and the Junior Ryder Cup at Blairgowrie both feature heavily alongside the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and Scotland’s Year of Homecoming in the new adverts, entitled Scotland’s Brilliant Moments. The advert sees a number of Scots reading a line from a specially penned poem, ...

Eighty-seven changes have been made to the 2013-14 edition of the “Decisions on the Rules of Golf” and with one particular change that would have saved World No. 1 Tiger Woods at two stroke penalty this season. A change to Decision 18/4 of the Rules of Golf aims to clarify when a ball has been inadvertently moved by a player – a scenario that left Woods fuming at the BMW Championship in September. Woods was slapped with a two-stroke penalty at the first hole in his second round, ...

Graeme McDowell tees up in a former Olympic Games host city facing questions as to what flag he would compete under should he qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. McDowell is competing in a third straight World Cup of Golf under the Ireland flag and this year teaming with Shane Lowry for the World Cup of Golf in Melbourne. And with the question still uncertain as to what flag McDowell or Rory McIlroy would march behind at the Opening Ceremony should they qualify for the Rio de Janeiro, that was ...

Chris Wood and Danny Willett are World Cup team mates but the England duo could be fighting each other for victory in this week’s World Cup of Golf in Melbourne. Sixty-years after the inaugural event in Canada and organisers have abolished the traditional fourball and foursomes format in favour of a 72-hole stroke play event that will mirror the nature of competition when golf returns to the Olympics in 2016. And in another twist in the $8m event there is 60 players teeing up on the famed Royal ...