Golf, by TourMiss

Here’s something you may not have known but Jamie Lovemark played in the same 2007 winning USA Walker Cup winning team as Rickie Fowler, Dustin Johnson and Billy Horschell. Among those in the opposing GB & I team they beat that year was the likes of Rory McIlroy and Danny Willett. But while all five have really gone on to make their presence felt on golf’s world stage, the now 27-year old California-born Lovemark, due to injury, has not been able to join his Walker Cup winning colleagues ...

Jason Day, and not for a first time this week, spoke of his burning passion to get back to World No. 1. It’s been six months since Day stormed to World No. 1 on the back of his six-shot success in FexEx Cup Play-Off Series BMW Championship at Conway Way Farms in suburban Chicago. Indeed, Day was an unstoppable World No. I towards the later half of 2015 steam-rolling his way to four victories in six tournaments. However his time on the throne was short-lived with Day hardly getting time to warm ...

An hour overnight on the practice range got Rory McIlroy sorted out bouncing back with a 67 on the second day of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando. McIlroy could hardly hit the side of a barn door on day one, including sending his very first tee shot onto the range when returned before emerging on day two, hitting nine of 14 fairways and five more than a day earlier at Bay Hill. The current World No. 2 moved from three over par to two under but faces an Everest-like task over the weekend ...

A second person has now lost his job involving tweets directed at England golfer Ian Poulter. At last weeks Valspar Championship Poulter was unnecessarily heckled by J.J. Downum, an assistant athletic director for development at Florida Southern College (FSC), as Poulter walked from the 12th green to 13th tee on the Copperhead course. Downum reportedly yelled:  “You will hit it in the water!” and “You will not make the Ryder Cup team!”. Poulter approached a police officer standing close ...

Australia’s present dominance on the world stage continues with Perth’s Terry Pilkadaris shooting a brilliant 64 and take the halfway lead at the Hero Indian Open on the Delhi GC course. Pilkadaris joined fellow ‘Down Under’ colleagues Jason Day along with Adam Scott and Marc Leishman who head the Arnold Palmer Invitational on the PGA Tour. The Australian is a veteran of 128 European Tour events but has also played over 100 times on the Asian Tour and has tackled the narrow ...

Double Masters winner José María Olazábal confirmed he will not play in the Masters next month because of health reasons. The Spaniard has been forced to decline his invitation to the season’s first Major, having not played competitive golf since the second round at Augusta National last year. The 50 year old has won the Green Jacket twice, in 1994 and 1999, and has amassed eight top ten finishes from his 27 appearances. “I am sorry to announce that I’m unable to attend this year as I am ...

You could have easily been mistaken that the St. Patrick’s Day celebration on the opening day of the 2016 Arnold Palmer Invitational had been renamed ‘Australia Day’. While there was green-coloured attire all about Bay Hill, including nearly every competitor getting in on the St. Patrick’s Day act, the first day of the $US 6.2m event clearly belonged to Australian-born golfers. Adam Scott and Marc Leishman finished within minutes of each other, and among five players at lunch ...