Golf, by TourMiss

Imagine the 2020 Ryder Cup taking place a fortnight prior to the postponed Masters? This question is now being raised as European Ryder Cup Captain Padraig Harrington is staying optimistic in diffusing talk of the 2020 Whistling Straits showdown being put back a year. Harrington’s comments come after both the European Tour and the PGA of America put out a tweet saying:  “Reports that the 2020 @RyderCup is expected to be postponed are inaccurate.” However, with the Ryder Cup scheduled ...

Open Championship winning hero Shane Lowry fears now even more the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic and growing number of cancelled PGA Tour events could strongly lead to the cancellation of his Claret Jug defence at Royal St. George’s in July. The PGA of America, and as was sadly expected, has now postponed the staging from May 14-17 of the 2020 PGA Championship at Harding Park in San Francisco. And then just 30-minutes later the PGA Tour advised a cancellation of a further four events taking ...

No sooner had the PGA of America announce the postponment of the PGA Championship to join the Masters in being postponed due to fears over the Coronavirus pandemic and the PGA Tour followed 30-minutes later to advise the cancellation of a further four regular season events. The year’s second Major was due to be staged from Mary 14-17 on the TPC Harding course in San Francisco. And in the statement released by the PGA of America it is revealed they have been liaising with the PGA Tour for an alternate ...

The PGA Championship has now joined the Masters in being postponed due to fears over the Coronavirus pandemic. The year’s second Major was due to be staged from Mary 14-17 on the TPC Harding course in San Francisco. And in the statement released by the PGA of America it is revealed they have been liaising with the PGA Tour for an alternate venue and that could very well be TPC Sawgrass and host to last week’s cancelled Players Championship. “Throughout our evaluation process, we have been committed ...

European Ryder Cup captain, Padraig Harrington revealed he’s in his Dublin backyard ‘struggling to get motivated’ in working on his chipping. In sun-splashed Florida, Justin Thomas shot a Bear’s Club 65 and ‘got smoked’ by Rickie Fowler while up in North Carolina Chesson Hadley  took his two young children to the beach. On the elite Lake Nona estate in suburban Orlando you’ll find Ian Poulter in a room of his palatial abode behind the wheel of an ultra-impressive wall-to-wall ...

For the serious golf fan, a first trip to Augusta National to watch the Masters is one of those ‘I’ve died and gone to heaven’ experiences. There is nothing quite like the emotion at the first sight of the stately Augusta National clubhouse and admiring the immaculately maintained ‘Map of America’ garden with the flagstick positioned where you’ve always known it to be. As you make your way onto the course, you’re immediately struck by elevation changes such as standing beside the 10th ...

The news just gets worse for Premier Golf League. First it was Rory McIlroy thumbing his nose in joining the controversial breakway Premier Golf League and then he was joined by fellow four-time Major winner Brooks Koepka who spoke passionately what it’s meant to his career to have come off the secondary European Challenge Tour and work his way to his current World No. 3 stature. Now the duo have been joined by World No. 2 Joh Rahm and with the Spaniard also snubbing the Premier Golf League. “I ...