Golf, by TourMiss

For a second time this COVID-19 year the Llanymyech Golf Club faces a dilemma. The club hit the golfing headlines earlier this year after all golf clubs in the UK and Ireland were closed due to growing concerns of the worldwide pandemic and then with clubs in England re-opening in May and on a different date than in Wales. Llanymyech is unique in the world of golf as it proudly boasts on its website – ‘Drive in Wales. Putt in England’ – and it means courtesy of Offa’s Dyke ...

The news was very much expected but then it is still disappointing to officially learn the 2020 Hero World Challenge has been cancelled. The Bahamas has long been in lockdown mode to both arrivals and departures and with a statement released overnight indicating the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and associated travel restrictions, Tiger Woods’ TGR Foundation announced on social channels the cancellation of this season’s Hero World Challenge at Albany, Bahamas. There was suggestions the event may ...

Saturday night, 19th March, 1988 … The NSW State Election is won by the Liberal/National coalition led by Nick Greiner winning 59 seats compared to 43 seats to the Labour Party headed by then Premier Barry Unsworth. Twelve years of Labour rule had come to an abupt end.  After six years savouring the best job I could have imagined, I am now technically out of work but alas, and sadly unlike a few on Treasurer Ken Booth’s staff, I was still an employee of the Premier’s Department ...

It has been mentioned often I should write a book. Maybe I should, given I have been walking around with a media badge either around neck or pinned to my shirt since the early to mid 1980s. I had been drawn into tournament golf by Australian great Greg Norman who, in the mid-70s to early ’80s, was seemingly winning everything. Indeed, Norman won 13 of an eventual 32 Australasian Tour events from 1976 to end of 1984.  He returned home a year later and went on to win another 19 ‘home’ ...

In what will be a PGA Tour first in 238 days organisers of next month’s The PGA Tour have announced 2,000 spectators a day will be allowed to attend next month’s 73rd edition of the Houston Open in Texas. It will be the first golf tournament on either the European Tour or PGA Tour to allow spectators, and this after organisers of the recent ASI Scottish Open had to abandon plans to allow 650 spectators per day due to an increase in coronavirus cases. However, those lucky enough to get a ticket ...

Glaswegian Ewen Ferguson finished the leading Scot and securing his third top-20 result in his 12 events since the lifting of the ‘lockdown’ following the hosting of the inaugural Scottish Championship at the Fairmont Resort of the outskirts of St. Andrews Ferguson, 24 grabbed a seventh hole eagle ‘2’ along with five birdies, including a gem at the last, but also a fourth hole double-bogey in his closing score of 67 for an 11-under par total and a share of 16th place. And afterwards the young ...

Adrian Otaegui has become only the third Spaniard to win on Scottish soil in storming his way to a four-shot success in the inaugural Scottish Championship at the Fairmont Resort to the east of St. Andrews. Otaegui, 27 brilliantly muscled his way from four shots back to win with a nine-under par 63 and a 23-under par victory tally on the Torrance course at the Fairmont Resort. The San Sebastian golfer looked in a class all his own having shot a first round 62, under a ‘four day preferred lie’ ...