Golf, by TourMiss

Tiger Woods is very keen to celebrate a 21st PGA Championship appearance with a 16th major championship triumph. Woods is returning to competition for only a fourth occasion this year and just a second time since the lifting of the lockdown in mid-June. While much of the weeks field had not set foot on the host TPC Harding Park course, Wood still has strong memories in being a member of the victorious 2009 USA Presidents Cup side that won by five points over the visiting International Team. And Woods ...

It’s been nearly 400 days since the golf’s last major championship but never in recent years has there been so many withdrawals in competing at the pinnacle of the game. A total of 14 players have withdrawn from Thursday’s start at the TPC Harding Park course in San Francisco in the first men’s major championship since Shane Lowry left Royal Portrush carrying the claret jug. Many of those have cited COVID-19 safety concerns, including five former Major winners, in not wishing to tee-up ...

Next time you walk into your local Scottish golf club and order a pint it may not be a Tennents, a Belhaven Best, a St. Andrews Ale, a Sheepshaggers Gold or if you’re in Robert MacIntyre’s home town of Oban, a Kilt Lifter IPA that you’ll find on tap. No, the countless visiting Americans heading to Scotland each year to play some of the world’s best golf courses are going to feel right at home with Budweiser to be the preferred pint in Scotland’s some 550 golf clubs. This ...

When you talk about Irish golfing gems there is all the well-known courses such as the European Club, Old Head, Ballybunnion, Ardglass, Donegal, Portmarnock, Portstewart, Royal Portrush, Ballyliffin, Castlerock, Royal County Down and so many. There’s those undiscovered Irish courses that shine just as bright and gems you really should make the effort to appreciate yourself. It’s why a few years ago I returned to Ireland and to a region I had visited on few occasions in reporting on golf ...

In what is a totally bizarre decision the UK government has granted approval for the construction of an already controversial championship golf course, luxury hotel and housing estate but only if the developers can deliver either the 2031 or 2035 Ryder Cup. Those campaigning strongly in opposition to the Hulton Park project in the former mill town of Bolton in the greater Manchester region, have been left shocked and appalled by the decision to grant the approval for the construction of over 1,036 ...

Rory McIlroy was wasting little time jetting out and bound for the year’s long overdue first Major Championship in San Francisco at least on a positive note of nil bogeys on his last day in Memphis. McIlroy completed his final round just prior to the leaders teeing-off on day four of the WGC – FedEx St. Jude Invitational with an overall uninspiring week as has been his golf since June’s return to competition. His closing day three-under par 67 for a one-under par tally handed him a then ...

A smiling Russell Knox is quitely confident he’s ready to celebrate ending a horror run of missed cuts with victory in the Barracuda Championship. Knox shares seventh place but just four points off the lead through two rounds in the unique modified stableford event being played in far eastern California and some 30-miles from Reno, Nevada. Knox added 8 points to his opening 10 points to be trailing American Kyle Stanley who leads into the weekend by two points with 22 points in the $US 3.5m event ...