Golf, by TourMiss

Nine-time Major winning Gary Player has been honoured in being appointed Wentworth Club ambassador. Player is the most successful international golfer of all time. He has achieved the kind of worldwide acclaim reserved for only a handful of sporting greats having won nine Major Championships on the Regular Tour, and nine Major Championships on the Senior Tour. The champion South African not only has captured 163 tournaments in his career but the present 84-year old holds the distinction of being ...

Fifteen-times Major winning Tiger Woods returns top competition this week for a first time since the PGA Tour’s return to golf insisting he will miss the energy of not having any spectators in attendance at the Memorial. Woods has not competed in a regular Tour event since last February when he ended near the field in hosting the Genesis Invitational at the Riveira club near Santa Monica. He did compete in a ‘made for TV’ exhibition match as his home Medallist Club in Florida while ...

R & A CEO Martin Slumbers has promised action over the Bryson DeChambeau ‘extra distance’ phenomenon indicating golf’s ruling body will be ‘seriously addressing’ the issue. DeChambeau’s remarkable distance off the tee since the return of the PGA Tour to competition has been the major talking point among not only his fellow competitors but the golfing public alike. The now ‘Hulk Hogan’ look alike sent one drive all of 427-yards during the Charles Schwab Challenge and then in capturing ...

It is not uncommon in all pro sports for sponsors to drop players when they are competing poorly over an extended period of time. Well, not in the case of Scotland’s Marc Warren who brilliantly celebrated a European Tour return to golf in ending a six-year winless drought to capture the Austrian Open. Warren, 39 birdied two of his closing four in a score of 70 to win by a shot at 14-under par on the Diamond Resort course at Atzenbrugg and some 35 miles from Vienna. Warren’s victory is the ...

New Austrian Open winner Marc Warren has revealed the pressure he was under from seven-year old son, Archie to return home with a fourth pro career victory trophy. Warren had intended to remain in Austria for this week’s Euram Bank Open but after ending a near six-year winless drought the Scot jetted out from Vienna and via Prague to Liverpool to be met by his wife, Laura and son Archie who had driven down from Glasgow. Archie was just two months old when he attended his first European Tour event, ...

As correctly predicted by GolfbyTourMiss.com new Austrian Open winner Marc Warren has taken a huge 927 places leap up the official World Rankings to be the World No. 331. Warren arrived in Austria well down in 1,258th place on the rankings and his lowest of his career after starting out in the pro ranks at the 2001 Scottish PGA as No. 1167 in the world. “Your first win is always special, but this one is definitely massive after the way I had played the last two years. It’s great to come ...

Justin Thomas paid a huge price in bogeying two of his closing three holes and then lost out in a three-hole play-off for rising PGA Tour superstar Collin Morikawa to capture the Workday Charity Open in Dublin, Ohio. Morikawa, 23 brilliantly collected a second PGA Tour first in posting a closing round 66 and end tied in regulation play with Thomas (72) at 19-under par and win with a par with at the third extra hole. The final round was brought forward to a 7am to 9am start of both tees, and in three-balls, ...