Golf, by TourMiss

Tiger Woods admits he’s alive, he’s wired and he’s irritable not in missing this week’s defence of the Masters in the uncertanity currently facing all of us. The five-time Augusta winning hero revealed he’s recovering “night and day” from on-going back issues that were expected by many observers to hinder Woods possibly teeing-up in the year’s planned first Major. “Night and day. I feel a lot better than I did then. I’ve been able to turn ...

The news not surprisingly only gets worst with Scottish Golf now cancelling its entire 2020 schedule. Scottish Golf has been in lock-down mode now for some weeks with some of the amateur game’s leading men’s and women’s events already postponed. The administrators of the game in the Home of Golf nation have led the way in keeping all those playing and administering golf abreast of an ever-changing COVID-19 affected climate but now feel the best move forward is to cancel the 2020 season and ...

Sandy Lyle this week was to have marked a 40-year anniversary since then then 22-year old made his maiden Masters appearance. Just eight years later in 1988 the Scot bravely countered everything to proudly to become just the second European behind the late, great Seve Ballesteros to win at Augusta National. In his 38 appearances and 112 rounds Lyle has had little cause to fear anything. Well everything except the beckoning index finger of Augusta National Chairman, Billy Payne. If was at the 2017 ...

It was around 4pm on the eve of the 2014 Masters and the final preview pieces had been filed. Those afforded invitations to tee-up in the next day’s first round of the opening Major of the year were away either competing in the Par-3 Contest or elsewhere doing what they had to do to prepare themselves for the tournament proper. Golf’s ‘Cathedral in the Pines’, as Augusta National is fondly called, was now closed to any further practice rounds and aside for a few green-staff ...

Graeme McDowell’s young children are delighted with official confirmation their father will now contest November’s rescheduled Masters. Four players – McDowell, South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout and the American duo of Scotty Scheffler and Collin Morikawa – have now been added to the field for the 43rd hosting of the Masters and qualifying by virtue of being inside the top-50 on the World Rankings as at Monday, 30th March. The four were contacted by Augusta National shortly after ...

It was as though we’d been let out of primary school for a first day of summer holidays. Golf journalists the world over, and I include myself, could not get the news out quick enough. No matter what time it was or where you were in the world, we rushed to the normal social media sites before cut-and-pasting statements into our written stories heralding the sad news eminating from the Home of Golf at St. Andrews. First it was golf’s oldest Major being cancelled to next year and thus totally ...

In a rare joint statement all major golf organising bodies have released details of their rescheduled events. The statement was released by the PGA Tour on behalf of all bodies and stated: United by what may still be possible this year for the world of professional golf, and with a goal to serve all who love and play the game, Augusta National Golf Club, European Tour, LPGA, PGA of America, PGA TOUR, The R&A and USGA have issued the following joint statement: “This is a difficult and challenging ...