Golf, by TourMiss

I had waited some two years firstly to revisit my younger brother and his family, including niece Nikki and nephew Jamie, but also to step back out onto Bathurst Golf Club. The attraction to again tee-up at Bathurst Golf Club, and a course I had been present in the early 1990s to report on the New South Wales, was in every part down to John Payne. I was very fortunate to bump into John and his son on Boxing Day 2013 and since then he and I have stayed in contact regularly. In fact, John contributed ...

Just over two years ago Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee incurred the wrath of Tiger Woods after awarding him an ‘F’ grade in a series of 2013 end-0f-season report cards that yielded Woods five victories, but then also compared his own cheating in a school test with a number of rules violations committed by the 14-time major champion. Chamblee was forced to soon left red-faced in having to humbly apologise to Woods. Now Chamblee is clearly off-side with four-time Major winning Rory ...

Charley Hoffman and Kevin Streelman have been elected Co-Chairmen of the Player Advisory Council (PAC) by the Tour’s membership for the 2016 calendar year. The 16-member PAC advises and consults with the PGA Tour Policy Board (Board of Directors) and Commissioner Tim Finchem on issues affecting the TOUR. Hoffman and Streelman will succeed Bo Van Pelt and Mark Wilson on the PGA TOUR Policy Board in 2017 and will a serve a three-year term (2017-2019) as Player Directors along with Jason Bohn ...

Fellow Texan Jordan Spieth will be walking in the shadow of legendary fellow Lone Star golfer Ben Hogan when he tees up in this week’s Northern Trust Open at the Riviera Country Club in suburban L.A. It was 74-years ago Hogan won the then L.A. Open in 1942 and then after World War 11 Hogan captured the event again in 1947 and 1948. In 1947 Hogan set a then Riviera course record of score of 280 while in 1948 he also captured the U.S. Open at Riviera and leading many to begin calling the club ...

The last time Louis Oosthuizen was delayed on route to Malaysia he captured the 2012 Maybank Malaysian Open title. Well the same has happened four years on with the South African taking 36 hours to travel from Florida via New York and then Dubai before arriving into Kuala Lumpur at 9am local time Tuesday ahead of this year’s renamed Maybank Championship.. The delay meant missing the Pro-Am but then did afford the 2010 Open Champion plenty of time to ponder – and perhaps even practise – ...

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 ...