Golf, by TourMiss

Gary King lived-up to his namesake breaking free from a first round three-way tie to reign heading into the final round of the Ascorp Abu Dhabi Golf Citizen Open at Saadiyat Beach and Golf Club on Tuesday. The 25-year-old Englishman backed up his opening five-under 67 with a 68 to reach 10 under, three ahead of his compatriots James Allan, who carded a bogey-free 66, the day’s best round, and Jake Shepherd, the winner of last week’s Dubai Creek Open. Scotland’s Daniel Kay, who returned ...

It was a relaxing overnight’s stay at Rosenheim, Germany and about a 2-hour drive from Bad Greisback and our destination for this week’s Porsche European Open. We stopped for the night at the Gasthof Hohenstieger in the town of Rosenheim and located in the Bavarian region of Germany. And check out the great breakfast to help send us on our way to a tournament last staged in 2009 at the London Club in Kent. So danka to everyone at the Gasthof Hohsteigher for looking after us so well.  

Perennial contenders and ‘golf in DUBAi’ ambassadors Faycal Serghini and Joshua White shot matching five-under 67s to seize the early momentum at the MENA Golf Tour’s Ascorp Abu Dhabi Golf Citizen Open at Saadiyat Beach Golf Club on Monday. Morocco’s Serghini, who is a three-time runner-up on the tour, reeled off six birdies, including three in a row from the 13th, against a lone bogey while England’s White mixed seven birdies with two bogeys to move one shot clear of the English ...

Australia’s Jason Day admitted his status as golf’s new world number one had not yet sunk in after he clinched top spot by winning the BMW Championship in Chicago on Sunday. The US PGA Championship winner succeeded Rory McIlroy at the top of the rankings after a final round of 69 earned him a six-shot victory at Conway Farms. It was Day’s fourth success in five events since the disappointment of missing out in a play-off in The Open at St. Andrews as well as capturing a fifth victory ...

Peter Lawrie now faces five weeks of uncertainty with a goal in wrapping-up his card for next season falling short at the Italian Open in Monza. Lawrie needed a top-five finish to move from his current 121st Race to Dubai standing and inside the top-110 but he had to settle for a share of 14th in posting a final round 68 for a 15-under par tally. The Dubliner’s goal of securing an entry into this week’s European Open at Bad Griesbach, and to the east of Munich, fell four shots shy of qualifying top-10. And ...

David Drysdale will learn tomorrow (Monday) if his season will continue or if he’ll be on the sidelined for the the remainder of the year. The Borders golfing ace is set to undergo an MRI in Edinburgh on his injured right leg. Drysdale sustained the injury at the very first hole in Saturday’s Italian Open third round at Monza. He had played a bunker shot and was climbing out of the bunker when he felt his calf muscle ‘pop’. “The pain was so bad it felt like I had been shot in the leg,” ...

Bizarrely, the nostalgia of recent weeks jumped up to surprise me at this week’s 72nd Italian Open in Monza. It was the first return of the championship to the Milan Golf Club since 1990 when England’s Richard Boxall captured the event wearing a plain yellow shirt and admitting when I caught up with him on Tuesday, he had simply ran out of shirts. The 1990 Italian Open had been my first but then I got a real surprise on Tuesday in asking the clubhouse if they had a shot of ‘Boxie’. ...