Golf, by TourMiss

Since his last victory at the Players Championship, Aussie Jason Day has seen his closest two rivals also taste victory. First there was current World No. 3 Rory McIlroy winning his own Dubai Duty Free Irish Open and then last week the present World No. 2 Jordan Spieth bounced back from his Augusta National anguish to capture a first PGA Tour title in his native Texas. And on the event of this week’s Memorial, Day says he’s excited to respond the victory efforts of McIlroy and Spieth ...

Rory McIlroy has delivered Olympic Games officials a much-needed mosquito repellent in declaring he looks almost certain now to tee up in the Rio Olympic Games. McIlroy had mentioned a day after winning the recent Irish Open he was considering withdrawing from the Olympics due to his fears over the Zika virus. However on the eve of the Memorial the World No. 3 revealed he has been speaking with health experts and his fears have been calmed, “I’m ready to play and I feel like the advice ...

Royal Troon has very smartly brought forward a vote on allowing women full membership of the club to host this year’s 145th Open Championship. The club will host a special general meeting on July 1, less than a fortnight before the 2016 Open begins, to consider whether to change its policy, which currently bars women from joining. “Following our consultation with members, the committee of the Royal Troon Golf Club is moving to convene a special general meeting … at which we will ...

Ryder Cup Captain Davis Love 111 says Tiger Woods is fast running out of time if he’s to qualify for the USA Team. It’s now 130 days till the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine but the golf world is no closer to knowing when Woods will return to competition. In fact, Woods has not teed up since last August in finishing T10th on debut in the Wyndham Championship. Love 111 will meet again with many of those likely to qualify for his team during the course of this week’s Jack Nicklaus hosted Memorial in Ohio. However, ...

US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has slammed the PGA Tour over a decision to dump Trump Doral as venue for the annual WGC – Cadillac Championship. Instead, the $10m event, and where Rory McIlroy hurled a club into the water last year, is headed to Mexico City. Trump released a statement saying:- “It is a sad day for Miami, the United States and the game of golf, to have the PGA Tour consider moving the World Golf Championships, which has been hosted in Miami for the last 55 years, to ...

Turnberry has reassured the golf world it is still very much on the Open Championship rota to host golf’s oldest major with the unveiling of stunning new changes to the Ailsa course. Since the staging of the 2009 Open, and won by American Stewart Cink, Turnberry has been taken over by the Trump organisation and now has been renamed as Trump Turnberry. It immediately prompted criticism in some quarters, and given Donald Trump’s very controversial stance of some matters, Turnberry should be stripped ...

It’s been just over 12 months since Turnberry was closed for major changes to the course that has played host to five Open Championship. However in the intervening period there has been an incredible amount of work undertaken at what is now Trump Turnberry. The biggest change is the 9th hole and now a stunning par 3 over water. See the photos below