Golf, by TourMiss

You can always be assured of a tale and some laughter in a Henrik Stenson press conference. And today was no exception with the serious side of Stenson revealing his right knee is still not 100% after recent surgery, and the second of his two knees that have been operated on his career. “The knee is still attached; it’s moving forward and I’m lifting the leg,” joked Stenson, who has finished outside the top 30 only once in his last ten visits to Emirates Golf Club. “It’s ...

It was only a fortnight ago the European Tour sanctioned the wearing of shorts during practice and Pro-Am rounds. Now four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy has suggested Tour organisers consider staging tournaments at night on floodlit courses. McIlroy’s spoke of the notion of floodlit golf earlier this week at a function here in Dubai at the local BOSE retail outlet and with local radio station Dubai Eye getting some good answers form the defending Omega Dubai Desert Classic champion. (See ...

Rory McIlroy admits he’s a huge Tiger Woods geek and jokes it’s not a ‘bag thing’ the currently injured 18-time Major winner is not competing at present. McIlroy can list all of Woods golfing achievement and the superstar American set the benchmark for the likes of McIlroy to follow. “This generation coming through, we grew up watching Tiger Woods and he was really the benchmark for us,”said McIlroy in an interview with local Dubai radio station ‘Dubai Eye’. “To see ...

Double Dubai winning Stephen Gallacher is looking to end an indifferent 12 months dry spell teeing up in this week’s Omega Dubai Desert Classic. Since finishing third a year ago in the second straight defence of his Dubai title the Scot has savoured just one top-10 finish in 22 European Tour events. A year ago Gallacher was ranked the country’s Top-Scot and a career high of No. 31 in the world along with the assurance of contesting all four Majors. Gallacher tees up on Thursday as the World No. ...

Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy can’t beat Novak Jokovich at his own game but he can share Olympic gold medal victory honours with the Serbian tennis ace later this year in Rio de Janiero. This would be McIlroy’s Brazil dream when golf returns to the Summer Olympics in August later this year. McIlroy had been in awe last week firstly watching TV coverage Jokovich’s clinical four sets Australian Open semi-final defeat of Roger Federer and then gleaned further inspiration from the World ...

The staging of the 2018 Senior Open Championship will complete the full set of Majors Championships to be held on the famed Old Course at St. Andrews. News of the staging of the European Tour Seniors pinnacle tournament was announced today at the Home of Golf. The 144th Open last year was the 29th occasion on which the Championship has been played at St. Andrews while the Old Course hosted the Ricoh British Women’s Open twice before. The 2018 Senior Open will be staged from July 26th to 29th. However ...

His father may be be his biggest critic but young Englishman Matthew Fitzpatrick admits he is ahead of career expectations in teeing up at this week’s Omega Dubai Desert Classic. He won a first European Tour title late last season in capturing the British Masters and just three weeks ago he made his pro-team career debut in being a member of the victorious European EurAsia Cup team in Kuala Lumpur. In a few months time the current World No. 44 will make his second appearance at Augusta National ...