Golf, by TourMiss

It could have been so easy to jump back onto the Pacific Highway for the straightforward three hour drive back to Sydney. I had just spent a wonderful few days, in between Christmas and New Year, in Port Macquarie with long-time good friend Brian Johnson and his wife, Suzie. It had been raining the day before and the weather, while muggy, was still a little inclement but that was not about to spoil my plans. So I thought, ‘No’ I’m going to take my time in heading back to Sydney. I’ve ...

It has taken nearly 20 years but Qatar will have only a second golf course when the Qatar International Golf Club opens later this year. And unlike many other new golf courses around the world, the Qatar International Golf Club will be unique and not for the sheer size of the work being undertaken at Education City. I still remember vividly reporting in 1999 the second, and what is now annual, Qatar Masters at the Doha Golf Club that had opened two years earlier on the then very outskirts of the ...

One of the initiatives suggested earlier this year by Rory McIlroy in improving the appeal of golf was playing the ancient game under lights. Well the four-time Major winner has got his wish as he will play an exhibition match against American Rickie Fowler on June 7th at the Detriot Golf Club, and in the week prior the U.S. Open in Pittsburg. Quicken Loans is finalising details for a match involving McIlroy and Fowler a week before the US Open, a person familiar with the negotiations said on Monday. Not ...

Dalmohoy’s Jamie McLeary is celebrating after earning his highest European Tour result and a bigger main Tour payout in finishing T7th at the Tshwane Open in South Africa. McIleary, 34 carded a second straight 69 for a four under par tally on the Pretoria Country Club course. Past Masters winner Charl Schwartzel put daylight in second place blitzing the field by to win by eight shots with a closing 63 for a 16-under par tally. It was Schwartzel’s 11th European Tour victory, a second this new ...

Chapter two of this year’s Jordan Spieth versus Rory McIlroy golfing thriller unfolds at this week’s Northern Trust Open in suburban L.A. McIlroy, who has today dropped back to World No. 3, won the opening skirmish at last month’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship by three shots in finishing third and with Spieth fifth in the UAE capital. Now McIlroy will be looking to win their second ‘same tournament’ encounter, and also in his first appearance in the event at the famed ...

What is the main cause of so much inconsistency, week after week? A special report by Kiran Kanwar AT & T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am heading to the final round: Phil Mickelson  68 65 66 (leads by two) #ElectricEight: Patrick Reed 72 65 73 (T32nd) Justin Rose 66 68 72  (T11th) Jordan Spieth 71 69 74   (T50th) Bill Haas 69 68 69  (T11th) What did Mickelson get “right” while the #ElectricEight not as “right”? Just the usual, lots of birdies with very few bogeys over three rounds. Mickelson’s  ...

South African Charl Schwartzel stormed his way to an eighth Tour success on home soil with an eight shot victory in the Tshwane Open to claim his second title of the season. Schwartzel, competing in his first event of the New Year, posted a seven-under-par 63 winning with ease at 16 under and clinch an 11th Tour tile and an eighth European Tour win on South African soil. Denmark’s Jeff Winther finished second on eight under, with Anthony Michael another two shots further back in third. Schwartzel, ...