Golf, by TourMiss

“Yes, he’s my brother but he deserves a (USA) Ryder Cup pick!” The defiant words of Chase Koepka, the younger brother of reigning PGA Championship champion Brooks Koepka. Chase is some four years younger than his also four-time major winning brother, and naturally wants to see him announced tomorrow (Tuesday) by USA captain Zach Johnson who will be in PGA of America HQ in Texas to confirm his full 12-man team ahead of next month’s Rome showdown. The LIV Golf attached Brooks had been among ...

Asian Tour Commissioner Cho Minn Thant has sung the praise in creating history by bringing two Tour events to England and Scotland. The Tour proudly hosted the International Series England last fortnight at Close House in north-eastern England and last week we saw the Asian Tour flags flying high over the Torrance course at the Fairmont Resort, and located just a few miles from the famed Old Course at St. Andrews. The Home of Golf was blessed with warm, near windless conditions, and while there was ...

VIKTOR HOVLAND’S FANTASTIC FEDEX CUP TRIUMPH Final-Round Notes – Sunday, August 27, 2023  Weather: Mostly sunny with a high of 96 degrees and winds SSE at 4-8 mph. The final round was suspended at 1:57 p.m. ET due to inclement weather and resumed at 3:50 p.m. ET, a delay of 1 hour and 53 minutes. Final Leaderboard Position Player Start Scores Total 1 Viktor Hovland -8 68-64-66-63 (-19) -27 2 Xander Schauffele -3 67-64-68-62 (-19) -22 3 Wyndham Clark -4 68-67-68-65 (-12) -16 4 Rory ...

Bern Wiesberger and his fellow European-born LIV golfers may have been ostracised from being picked for this year’s Ryder Cup but it has not dampened his support for Luke Donald and his European Team to win back the golden trophy later next month in Rome. Weisberger posted a closing round of 66 to share eighth place in the inaugural Asian Tour hosted St. Andrews Bay Championship at the Fairmont Resort on the outskirts of the Home of Golf. It was his first visit to St. Andrews since last year’s ...

Scot David Drysdale and his caddying wife, Vicky were heading home to their Borders abode giving the thumbs-up to this week’s inaugural Asian Tour St. Andrews Bay Championship in St. Andrews. Drysdale made it six pay cheques in succession from seven events in his  rookie Asian Tour season posting scores of 74, 67, 72 and a closing 69 for a six-under-par tally. The effort handed him an eventual share of 45th to be now lying 66th on the Asian Tour Order of Merit and well on track to retain full ...

…. Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews It took an Asian Tour record of 10 extra play-off holes for Spaniad Eugenio Chacarra to capture a first Asian Tour win over Aussie Matt Jones in an historic first Tour event at the Home of Golf. Chacarra and Jones ended regulation play tied at 19-under-par with Jones posting a closing 69 and Chacarra a 67 on the Torrance course at the Fairmont Resort. The duo headed back to the uphill par-5 18th and proceeded to birdie the hole on six occasions before moving ...

  Top Scot Robert MacIntyre heads to this week’s Tour stop in Switzerland quietly confident of climbing to the dizzy heights of automatic Ryder Cup selection. MacIntyre retained his third place on the Rome selection points table following a superb fourth place finish at the Czech Masters. The Oban lefty produced a brilliant final round 66, his third six-under tally of the week to eventually share fourth place on 17-under par in Prague. The result is MacIntyre’s sixth top-10 of the ...