Golf, by TourMiss

Tiger Woods has been labelled ‘goofy, dorky-goofy’ by girlfriend Lindsey Vonn. With Woods competing in this week’s inaugural Turkish Airlines Open Vonn was speaking on a TV chat show about her World No. 1 ranked boyfriend. “He’s very competitive like me.  We have very similar personalities.  He’s funny, laid back, a great guy, competitive, fun to be with, goofy, dorky-goofy “He is probably not to be that excited that I just said that.” A thunderstorm ...

Tiger Woods has admitted that despite confessing he had been close some years back to joining the European Tour he will not take up membership. It has always been argued that if Woods were to become a European Tour member he would have easily finishing the leading money-earner on both sides of ‘The Pond’. You only have to look at the dual PGA and European Race to Dubai counting events with Woods having earning $3,922,612 from eight counting events. When converted to Euros it amounts ...

A thunderstorm and resulted flooding has forced a three hour delay to the start of the play in the inaugural Turkish Airlines Open at Belek. The storm struck the Montgomerie designed Maxx Royal course before any players in the elite 78-player field had managed to tee off. But after an initial two hour delay an inspection of the course revealed a number of the greens had flooded. Officials moved the first match tee time from the scheduled 9.05am local time start to an eventual 12.05pm local time ...

Marc Warren is hunting this week for an on-course pairing with Tiger Woods to further prove he can cut it at the game’s highest level. Warren is drawn to play alongside England’s Ross Fisher and former China No. 1 Liang Wen-chong for the first round of today’s (THUS) commencing Turkish Airlines Open at Belek. The draw over the next three days of the inaugural $7m event is then determined on position on the leader board and Warren knows he’ll need a low scoring opener if he’s any chance ...

One should have known not to ask a qualified accountant, as it the case with Padraig Harrington, if he has done his Race to Dubai sons. Harrington tees up in today’s (THU) inaugural Turkish Airlines Open lying 67th on the Race to Dubai standings and Euro 78,673 shy of being top-60 and qualifying for next week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. After the adjustment in the standings following last week’s WGC – HSBC Champions event Harrington was correct in answering:  “I ...

World No. 1 Tiger Woods declared he would welcome any move to sit down with USA Ryder Cup captain, Tom Watson and ‘clear the air’ before next year’s Ryder Cup at Gleneagles. Watson was extremely critical of Woods in the months following revelations in late 2009 of Woods’ many extra-marital affairs. And at the recent ‘One Year to Go’ celebrations in Scotland ahead of the 2014 Ryder Cup, Watson again indicated: “I have not talked with Tiger privately and I will have to sit down and have ...

Stories and photographs of Tiger Woods historic Bosphorus Bridge shot from one continent to another is splashed all over the front pages of today’s Turkish newspapers. There was not one in a selection of some half-a-dozen Istanbul moMilyonluck Vurning newspapers that did not cover the event. There is headlines such as:  Tiger Show – The World Is Watching and Tiger Woods Stops Istanbul Traffic. However there is also one photograph of Woods hitting off the Bosphorus River Bridge with ...