Golf, by TourMiss

When it has come to the setting-up of U.S. Open championship golf courses there seemingly has always been one name – USGA CEO Mike Davis. Davis has been at the helm of one half of golf’s administration body since 2016, while he’s been at the New Jersey-based offices of the USGA since his appointment in 1990. But no longer and with the now 55-year old Davis is to step down at the end of 2021. And instead of being in charge with setting-up golf courses for events such as the U.S. Open, the U.S. ...

  Dates: September 21-27, 2020 Where: Punta Cana, Dominican Republic Course: Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course) Par/Yards: 36-36—72/7,666 Designer: Tom Fazio/2010 Field: 144 players Defending champion: Graeme McDowell Purse: $4,000,000 ($720,000/winner) FedExCup: 500 points to the winner Format: 72-hole stroke play  Things to Know Originally scheduled in March as an additional event the week of the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play, the ...

While the golf world continues to wrap itself around the manner Bryson DeChambeau captured last week’s U.S. Open his surprised fellow Winged Foot competitors also are scratching their collective heads. Sweden’s Henrik Stenson missed the Winged Foot cut with scores of 74 and 77, and in what was his 14th U.S. Open showing. And while the now 44-year old became the first Sweden-born male to win a Major in capturing the 2016 Open Championship with a 20-under par tally, Stenson also enjoys a decent ...

In yet another boost for ogranisers, former Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open winner, Graeme McDowell confirmed he is returning to Europe to tee-up in next week’s event at the Renaissance Club to the east of Edinburgh. McDowell has not contested a regular European Tour event year since last March in capturing the Saudi International. ‘G Mac’ had turned down competing in this week’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open, and an event he was due to host’, to defend his rescheduled Corales ...

Fellow U.S. Open champ Graeme McDowell insists there’s no need for Masters officials to ‘Byrson-Proof’ Augusta National despite Bryson DeChambeau’s demolition of Winged Foot. McDowell missed last week’s U.S. Open cut with scores of 76 and a shock second round 80 ahead of making his way to the Dominican Republic for his defence of this week’s rescheduled $US 4m PGA Tour Corales Puntacana Championship. DeChambeau’s victory, and coming on the back of an impressive but also ‘breaking ...

If not for the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic European Captain Padraig Harrington would be meeting inside the opulent surrounds of the Whistling Straits clubhouse with his vice-captains sometime before Friday to select the opening round fourballs for the 43rd Ryder Cup. It was early July the hosting of what was supposed to be this week’s staging of the biennial competition was postponed to the last week of September, 2021 at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. However, in looking at the present make-up ...

So, after all the talk of Bryson DeChambeau bringing Winged Foot to its knees, who then officially was the longest driver of the ball in last week’s U.S. Open? If not golf’s ‘Mad Scientist’ then perhaps World No. 1 Dustin Johnson?  What about sensationally Matthew Wolff?  Maybe it was Rory McIlroy despite sharing sixth place. No, none of those. The longest officially recorded drive of the four days was by New Zealander Ryan Fox. The 33 year old Auckland-born Fox, who ...