Golf, by TourMiss

Ponte Vedre, FL … PGA Tour Commissioner, Jay Monahan was naturally going to be asked to comment on the controversy of a breakaway Premier Golfing League (PGL) The PGL proposal to stage a series of $10m tournaments from 2022 commanded golfing headlines over the earlier part of the New Year until now overtaken with fears over the Coronavirus. Monahan was asked by www.golfbytourmiss.com  if there was room on golf’s global stage for the PGL. And in his response it’s clear that this ...

Ponte Vedre, FL …   World No. 1 Rory McIlroy heads into his defence of the Players Championship believing the USA to be ‘casual’ in not doing enough to combat the spread of the deadly Coronavirus. While major cultural, music and sporting events are being cancelled across the States over the virus fears there is a real likelihood now of the non-staging of the PGA Championship in San Francisco. It’s understood the tournament infrastructure at this week’s at TPC Sawgrass will ...

Ponte Vedre, FL … PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan was first full of praise for McIlroy but then also reminded this week’s defending Players Championship who’s the boss. In his now annual ‘State of the PGA Tour’ address and in a 9-page transcript, Monahan revealed he has not spoken to Premier Golf League (PGL) executives regarding a breakaway tour plus assuring fans the up-coming WGC – Match-Play title will go ahead in Coronavirus hit Austin, Texas. Monahan also indicated, and ...

Ponte Vedre, FL …. Shane Lowry is staring at bringing home an unprecedented and very unique Irish sporting victory double this week. On Thursday Lowry will tee-up at TPC Sawgrass looking to capture the Players Championship but on the eve of the $US 15m (Euro 13.15m) event Lowry’s thoughts will very much focus on the penultimate race at Cheltenham. At 4.50pm Irish time (12.50pm US time) Wednesday ‘Theatre of War’, and a 4-year old gelding owned by Lowry’s Clara Jug syndicate, will line ...

Ponte Vedre, FL … Newest PGA Tour winner, Tyrrell Hatton expressed his disappointment fellow Brit David Drysdale came up short in the Qatar Masters. Hatton is no stranger to the Home of Golf nation brilliantly winning the back-to-back 2016 and ’17 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The Marlow golfer has also won an Italian Open and is the reigning Turkish Airlines Open champ and on Sunday Hatton became the first Englishman in the 54-year history of the event to capture the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Hatton ...

Ponte Vedre, FL Fears of contracting the deadly Coronavirus is now affecting how the world’s best golfers interact with their fans while meetings will take place this week at the Players Championship that could seriously affect the hosting of one of the four up-coming  golfing Majors. Ireland’s own Graeme McDowell along with American golfing heartthrobs Rickie Fowler and Bryson DeChambeau have each revealed the measures their taking to avoid unnecessary physical contact. And that was no more ...

Orlando, FL … Graeme McDowell walked from the final Bay Hill green joking that he needed to looked for a padded cell after four tougher-than-normal days at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. McDowell had been just three shots from the first day lead in posting an opening 68 but the conditions toughened appreciably for the remaining three rounds to make a virtual mockery of the game’s best. G Mac posted a second round 74 to easily make the cut but ended with a weekend pair of 76s. And McDowell ...