Golf, by TourMiss

… Fatiha Betscher, Al Hamra GC, RAD  What an amazing roller-coaster final round by the inaugural Ras Al Khaimah champion – Denmark’s Nicolai Hojgaard. The 20-year-old went into the final round leading by three, found himself two behind after 12 holes and superbly regroup to win by four on the stunning Al Hamra course, Victory seemed assured for Hojgaard in teeing-up on the final day but then in golf, two days are never the same as the now double Tour winner will attest in signing ...

A player and caddy relationship is so much like a marriage.  Each needs to work in unison to make it work. Saying that the male professional golfer and his caddy would more each than each other’s respective wife or partner Take Paul Casey and Johnny ‘Long Sock’s McLaren with the duo now going their separate ways but not because of a bust-up in their ‘marriage’.  No, nothing could be further from the truth with the duo calling it time while the 55-year-old McLaren, who was the long-time ...

Harold Varner 111s victory putt was so long it needed a visa with the American sensationally denying good friend and double Masters winning Bubba Watson to capture the Saudi International. Varner 111 first landed his second shot into the downwind par-5 18th just on the front edge of the green in two and then putting to a pin located the back left corner on the Royal Greens course. The American, one behind on the final tee, just needed to two-putt the last to ensure a play-off. What happened next ...

... Fatiha Betscher, Al Hamra, RAK  Scotland’s David Law saw a three-shot lead early on day three end in being three behind heading to the last round of the inaugural Ras Al Khaimah Championship in the northern-most UAE emirate. Law, 30, was well in command on the stunning Al Hamra course albeit for the three closing holes when hotshot Danish twin Nicolai Hojgaard muscled his way past the Scot thanks to three closing birdies in an eight-under-par 64. Hojgaard leads at 20-under par and with ...

For more than a decade Brad Kennedy has plied his trade on the Japan Tour. It may surprise people the now 47-year-old has won 15-times in his career and with three of those in Japan, and the latest being the 2018 Shigeo Nagashima Invitational Sega Sammy Cup. I guess it’s fair to say this quietly-spoken Queenslander has gone about his golf without fanfare or regular news of his endeavors in Japan, which is in stark contrast to his Aussie compatriots competing on the PGA Tour or the DP World Tour. It’s ...

American Harold Varner 111 continued to fight the off-shore Red Sea winds the best retaining his lead in signing for a two-under-par 68 and retaining a one-shot lead at 12-under-par. Spaniard Ardi Arnaus also holds down his second place in the $5m event shooting a 69 and edge to 10-under, and with England’s Tommy Fleetwood continuing to edge closer to the first win in over two years signing for 67 to be a 10-under. Double Saudi winning Dustin Johnson, and like Fleetwood, birdied the last also in ...

In any marriage break-up, there are always two sides to the story. It is no different in golf as we are now seeing with the strained relations between the DP World Tour and the Asian Tour. The two tours have been very close golf tournament staging companions since the inaugural co-sanctioned European and Asian tour event in 1999 at the Maybank Malaysian Open. However, this 23-year partnership is, in the view of Asian Tour Commissioner Cho Minn Thant, ‘icy’, and suggestions from the Singapore-based ...