Golf, by TourMiss

Recent headlines of spectator price rises for the hosting of the 2025 Ryder Cup took my mind back a good few years and the day we were extended the invitation to tee-up on the famed host Bethpage Park Black course. Actually, it was just over six years ago the PGA of America generously arranged a media outing in August 2018 ahead of the 2019 PGA Championship, and when Brooks Koepka was handed the Rodman Wanamaker trophy for a second straight year. I had taken photographs from the outing that I found ...

It is a memorable week for the team at the Official World Gollf Rankings (OWGR) with the issue today of its 2000th weekly Ranking says legendary Tony Greer who was on board for the first OWGR ranking. The OWGR was commenced at the April 1986 Masters and some of the statistics built up as the Ranking reached over 38 years are as follows: In that time only twenty five players, who have won 68 Major Championships between them, have joined the elite No.1 Club – after Bernhard Langer’s initial weeks ...

Julien Guerrier is celebrating after capturing a maiden DP World Tour title after a record-matching nine-hole play-off at the Estrella Damm Andalucia Masters. Guerrier, 39 and teeing-up also in his 230th Tour start since making his debut in 2005, pared the ninth extra hole to defeat home favourite Jorge Campillo after the Spaniard found a greenside bunker with his approach shot into the 18th hole before taking a bogey 5 and leaving his French opponent to win with a par on the host Royal Sotogrande ...

Four Scots will touch down in far-off South Korea tomorrow afternoon (Monday 21st October local Seoul time) with more than this week’s Genesis Championship, and third last event of the season, on their collective minds. Gleneagles-attached Calum Hill seeks to cement his place in the final two events of the season taking place next month in the UAE while Richie Ramsay and Scott Jamieson will be desperate to extend their season at least into the first of the two and that being the November 7th commencing ...

Surname-sake Michael Maguire has brilliantly claimed the biggest victory of his professional career in climbing to the summit of the Asian Tour’s Black Mountain Championship in Thailand. In an all-American play-off Maguire defeated compatriot John Catlin at the second extra hole after both players ended regulation play tied at the top of the leaderboard on 23-under-par. Maguire brilliantly got up-and-down from a greenside bunker for birdie at the 72nd hole in his round of 65 before claiming ...

A first in the now 52-year DP World Tour history awaits Jorge Campillo should he capture the 2024 Estrella Damm Andalucia Masters. Campillo will head to the final tied at the top of the board tied with Frenchman Julien Guerrier at 19-under after three days on the host Royal Sotogrande course on Spain’s Costa-del-Dol. Campbillo has posted rounds 64, 65 and a third day 68. And we are learning that since the inaugural European Tour event no player has won, and in what is now the DP World Tour, ...

Exclusive by Bernie McGuire ….. Scotland’s Scott Jamieson is now targeting making his way to the UAE early next month as he proudly heads sharing third place into the weekend rounds of the Estrella Damm Andalucia Masters in Spain. Jamieson was the very first out on day two of the Spanish event and took full advantage of the glorious conditions in posting a six-under 66 for a 10-under tally on the host Royal Sotogrande course on the Costa del Sol. It has the Scot lying five shots adrift ...