Golf, by TourMiss

  Belgium’s big-hitting Nicolas Colsaerts stormed off the Monza grid with eight birdies in succession to enjoy a two shot lead on day one of the 72° OPEN D’ITALIA presented by DAMIANI. Colsaerts was off to a slow start from the tenth, parring his first four holes before rounding the back straight of the Milano Golf Club course with five consecutive birdies from the 14th to the 18th holes that saw him make the turn in 31. He then kept the foot to the metal with further birdies ...

Rookie Gavin Moynihan tees up in this week’s Italian Open, and his first event as a pro, with the endorsement of Ryder Cup Captain’s Paul McGinley and Darren Clarke ringing his ears. Moynihan, 20 has been afforded an invitation to contest the event on the Milano GC course laid out right alongside the famed Monza Autodrome and venue for last fortnight’s Italian F1 Grand Prix. The Island Club attached Moynihan arrived at Monza on the back of helping steer GB & I to a record-setting Walker Cup success last Sunday. McGinley had been present at Royal Lytham and St. Annes helping motivate the GB & I ...

Rookie Scot Bradley Neil is hopeful in finally getting his pro career out of first gear at this week’s Italian Open in Monza. The 19-year old Neil accepted an invitation to compete in what is only his third European Tour event since turning professional straight after June’s U.S. Open, and on the Milano Golf Club course located right alongside the famed Monza Autodrome. In fact, the competitors access the golf course via a road running underneath both ...

Rookie pro Gavin Moynihan is not unlike his motor racing colleagues on the opposite side of the tall boundary fence separating the Milano Golf Club course from the Monza Autodrome, and home each year to the Italian F1 Grand Prix. All they want to see is the starter’s green flag. It is very much the case for the 20-year old Moynihan who has been waiting for this day to come for some time. The Island Golf Club attached golfer waited his time to contest last week’s Walker Cup and now after ...

European Ryder Cup Captain Darren Clarke is concentrating hard on this week’s 72° OPEN D’ITALIA presented by DAMIANI – a week out from travelling to Hazeltine for the Ryder Cup ‘One Year To Go’ celebrations. Clarke tees up on the Golf Club Milano course without a top ten finish this season and no win since his sensational victory at the Open Championship in 2011. But he has shown glimpses of his best in recent weeks, with rounds of 69 and 68 at the Made in Denmark ...

Bernie was taken by complete surprise today when he sought out any photographs of England’s Richard Boxall with the Italian Open trophy. For both Bernie and ‘Boxie’ it’s the first time both have been back to the Milano GC since 1990 when Bernie was reporting and then photographing his first Italian Open and with ‘Boxie’ capturing what would turn out to be his lone European Tour success. ‘Boxie’ could remember every detail of his splendid five shot victory ...

England’s Jake Shepherd showed his flair for the dramatic as, by his own reckoning, he came from nowhere to win the MENA Golf Tour’s Dubai Creek Open in a tense three-way play-off on Wednesday. Three shots off the pace going into the final round, Shepherd closed with a four-under 67 to reach nine under in regulation along with his playing partner Rayhan Thomas of India before Austria’s Florian Praegant, playing in the final group, three putted the last from 15 yards, to force the extra ...