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GolfByTourMiss.com is proudly celebrating the new decade with news of a a 10,000th post. It was just under 10-years ago GolfByTourMiss.com emerged onto the golf-reporting scene reporting triple Major-winning Padraig Harrington had joined the ‘jet set’ in purchasing his own private jet. And in 10 short years GolfByTourMiss.com has grown to proudly stand tall among our big-bucks backed website colleagues. GolfByTourMiss.com is Fatiha ‘Tour Miss’ Betscher and Bernie McGuire. In ...

Now the following could one day be a golf trivia question. Who was the player to win the final professional event of the 2010-19 decade? India’s Udayan Mane has jumped 140 spots to be end 2019 as the World No. 412 after producing a flawless seven-under 65 on the final day to claim a thrilling one-shot win at the season-ending TATA Steel Tour Championship here on Sunday. Mane’s determined final round effort of seven-under-65 saw him establish a new PGTI record for the lowest tournament total ...

Golf’s top-two world-ranked Brooks Koepka and Rory McIlroy along with fellow Major winning Justin Rose, Francesco Molinari, Shane Lowry and Tiger Woods have elected to skip the very first PGA Tour event of the new decade – the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. In total, seven of 41 qualified players will not tee-up in the ‘winners-only’ event commencing on January 2nd. McIlroy made his debut in the Hawaii event a year ago with a superb T4th showing but true to his ...

Fellow Major Champions have singled out Rory McIlroy as their ‘Player of the Decade’. The Holywood golfing starlet was the choice of fellow four-time Major winning Ernie Els along with the Masters winning trio of Adam Scott, Sergio Garcia and Mike Weir plus the last Major winner of the 2010-19 decade – Shane Lowry. In the past 10-years, McIlroy has won four Majors and 23 other tournaments around the globe. The next best is Brooks Koepka and while the American has also won ...

Earlier this year, www.golfbytourmiss.com visited the amazing new indoor training facilities at Holywood Golf Club and the long-time home club to current four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy. Well McIlroy has officially opened the facility during the course of his return to his parents home in Belfast where he’ll spend Christmas. Thanks to McIlroy’s financial input the truly amazing state-of-the-art golf academy boasts a gym and not one but five hitting bays along with three TrackMans ...

Australia’s Adam Scott is celebrating Christmas a few days early after sensationally capturing a second Australian PGA Championship on the Royal Pines course on Queenland’s Gold Coast Scott, 39 came from two shots back of the lead mid-round to stamp his enormous class comfortably winning by two shots after posting a final round 69 for a 13-under par tally. The effort was good enough to edge out New Zealand’s Michael Hendry who, in overcoming a rib injury, had taken the lead over ...

Adam Scott is just one round shy of capturing a second Australian PGA Championship after posting a third round 69 to move a shot clear of the field at 10-under par on the Royal Pines course on Queensland’s Gold Coast. The World No. 15, and the highest-ranked player in the co-sanctioned field, birdied two of his closing three holes to break free on a day when five players had shared the lead at one stage in the event. Scott, 39 won the title for a first occasion in 2013 and a victory would be ...