Golf, by TourMiss

Hilton Head, SC … Russell Knox continued a fondness for the second round of this week’s host course in again taking a huge bite out of the alligator-infested course with a five under par 66 on day two of the RBC Heritage. The Scot birdied four of his opening six holes and dropping his only shot at the 12th before birdies at 13 and 15 in glorious warm conditions on the Harbor Town layout at Hilton Head in South Carolina. It handed Knox a share of tenth place at six under and just four behind ...

Paul Lawrie ended a five-year winless drought to become only the fourth player to win both the Dimension Data Pro-Am and The Open Championship when he teamed with his youngest sone to capture the 2017 Dimension Data Pro-Am by one stroke on Saturday. Unlike the others, he won The Open first. He joined Nick Price, Darren Clarke and Louis Oosthuizen as the only players to win both, but he won his major championship back in 1999. He held off the challenge of Justin Hicks of the United States, local player ...

Paul McGinley celebrated his first event in the over-50s brigade with a rousing three under par 69 on day one of the Allianz Championship in Florida. McGinley was grouped with Major’s winning duo of John Daly and David Toms for the event being played on the Boca Raton course about an hour’s drive north of Miami. The Irishman’s round was rock-solid and included four birdies and just the one bogey in warm and slightly windy conditions, and in field boasting seven Ryder Cup Captains including ...

Tiger Woods has a second aspect of his equipment locked-in for 2017 and that’s the golf ball he will use. In fact, Bridgestone Golf announced today Woods has signed a multi-year agreement for exclusive use of its golf ball. It comes as no surprise given Woods has been using the Bridgestone Tour B330-S ball in competition at the recent Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. “Finding the right golf ball is extremely important,’ Woods, 40, said in a statement as his deal with Bridgestone ...

Bethpage Park, NY … Patrick Reed inched closer to banking the Barclays Championship first prize cheque on day two of the first of the FedEx Play-Off Series at Bethpage Park Black. The American went into the round sharing the overnight lead on five under par and after seven holes had raced to nine under par in the hot and humid conditions. However a bogey at eight checked the Texan’s progress ahead of getting back to nine under with a birdie at 13 but ending his round bogey, birdie and ...

The Irish duo of Graeme McDowell and Shane Lowry will stake their final Ryder Cup claims later this week in tournaments some 6,000 klms apart. McDowell will tee-up in the Barclays Championship and the first event of the ultra-lucrative four-event FedEx Cup Play-Off Series on New York’s Long Island. Lowry, despite some late confusion, will compete in the Made in Denmark and what is technically the final event for qualifying for the European Ryder Cup team. However, the leading nine Hazeltine qualifiers, ...

Chilean Felipe Aguilar joked he was more scared of his wife than any virus-carrying mosquito. Aguilar shared the clubhouse lead on day one of the Scottish Open with Aussie Scott Hend, and with both reaffirming a commitment to compete in next month’s Olympic Games. The pair recorded three under par 69s in bright but very windy conditions on the Castle Stuart course to the east of Inverness in northern Scotland. Their efforts come after Zimbabwean Brandon de Jonge and Columbia’s Camillo Villegas ...