Golf, by TourMiss

Australian golf has for a first time joined other national sports in honouring its best (professional golfers) with the launch by the PGA of Australia of a new award. The inaugural Greg Norman Medal will be presented to the best male or female professional golfer on the world stage in 2015 at a gala awards night in December. The winner will be determined based on annual success on the Australian and International stage including all Professional tours such as the LPGA, ALPG & Ladies European ...

Joshua White went deep into red numbers with a sparkling five-under 66 to surge to the top of the leaderboard as young Rayhan Thomas kept his hopes alive of becoming the first amateur to win a MENA Golf Tour event, going into the final round of the Dubai Creek Open on Tuesday. Playing in the day’s very first group, White took advantage of slightly more receptive conditions at Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club, going bogey-free to reach eight-under, one ahead of Austria’s Florian Praegant ...

Double Major winning Zach Johnson has paid FedEx Cup leader Jason Day the ultimate compliment ahead of this week’s BMW Championship in Chicago. Johnson and Day have become the best of friends and well prior to the pair capturing the closing two Major Championships of the season. Indeed Johnson was one of the first to embrace Day when he returned to competition at last month’s Barclays Championship and ahead of the Columbus-based Australian storming to the top of the Play-Off Series with his six-shot ...

England amateur golfers Aaron Saddleton and Mark Avis beat odds of 25-million-to-one to ace the same hole while playing against each other at the Royal Norwich GC. Following their magnificent achievement, the BOSS Watches H1Club has decided to recognise the double feat by rewarding each golfer with a specially-commissioned, commemorative timepiece. The remarkable double feat occurred on the 135-yard, par-three ninth, in a two-v-two match between Sprowston Manor GC and Royal Norwich. Saddleton, 29, ...

It clearly was part of the deal in discussions with new European Tour CEO Keith Pelley that four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy contest at least ‘one other’ event before the end of this year’s Race to Dubai schedule. McIlroy had confirmed to www.golfbytourmiss.com at last month’s PGA Championship at Whistling Straits he was intent on contesting only the WGC – HSBC Champions event and the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai as his remaining season events ...

Irish born Walker Cup winning hero Gavin Moynihan has wasted little time turning professional the very next day and joining ISM and will play his first event as a professional at this week’s Open D’Italia. A two-time Irish Amateur champion, winner of the Peter McEvoy Trophy and the Carrick Neill Scottish Open Championship, Irishman Gavin, 20, took part in his second Walker Cup, at Royal Lytham & St Annes, at the weekend. Gavin contributed two points in Great Britain and Ireland’s record ...

England’s Lee Slattery is top of the European Ryder Cup rankings for a second week in succession despite letting slip a chance for a second straight Race to Dubai success. Last week’s M2M Russian Open winner missed a four foot par putt at the 72nd green to miss out by a shot in forcing a play-off in the KLM Open. Instead victory went to 23-year old Belgium sensation Thomas Pieters who is managed by the same management company as Tiger Woods, Justin Rose, Gary Woodland, Matt Kuchar and ...