Golf, by TourMiss

Visiting American Brandt Snedeker is headed for an early exit in his first appearance in the Australian PGA Championship at the Royal Pines Resort on Queensland’s Gold Coast. The seven-time PGA Tour winner, who captured this year’s AT & T Pebble National Pro-Am, looked more like a weekend amateur slumping to his worse ever score of a 12-over par 84. You can check Snedeker’s PGA Tour record back to 2005 and the highest score he’s shot is a handful of 80s with the last being ...

By Fatiha Betscher, Nassau, Bahamas. Double Major winning Jordan Spieth has expressed his sympathy for this week’s Hero World Challenge tournament host – Tiger Woods. Woods continues to recover from a second back operation and hasn’t competed since finishing 10th in last August’s Wyndham Championship. Spieth has travelled from Sydney, where he finished runner-up in the defence of his Australian Open title, to defend this week’s event here in the Bahamas. And the current ...

by Fatiha Betscher, Nassau, Bahamas. World No. 1 Jordan Spieth has arrived here in the Bahamas confident of successfully defending his Hero World Challenge crown. The American travelled from Sydney after finishing runner-up in the Australian Open. And while the 22-year old Dallas-born golfer was disappointed not to join Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player as the only non-Australians to win back-to-back Stonehaven Trophy’s he’s indicated to those who have gathered in the Bahamas he’s not ...

Organisers of this week’s inaugural Asian Tour Ho Tram Open in Vietnam got together the overseas stars in a James Bond-like preview. Sergio Garcia in ‘tuxs’ arrived at the resort course on a chopper while former US Open winner Geoff Ogilvy is shown walking along the beach. European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke, also in a dinner suit, is seen seated in the back of a gleaming BMW nursing the Ryder Cup. The World No. 12 ranked Garcia is on a mission to win the inaugural US$1.5 million event ...

Rookie Irish professional Paul Dunne has travelled nearly 17,000 klms to Australia’s Gold Coast just to tee-up for a first time as a full European Tour members. This week’s Australian PGA Championship, being staged on the Royal Pines Resort course, is the first time the event is being co-sanctioned by the European Tour. The event, along with the corresponding Nedbank Challenge in South Africa, share the honours as the first events of the Tour’s 2015/16 wraparound schedule. And being a Ryder ...

Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy is reputedly worth a cool $422 and counting. That’s according to official documents filed recently by his management company Rory McIlroy Inc. The figure is reportedly based on is on-course earnings, as well current endorsements with Nike, Bose, Omega and other sponsors. It clearly places McIlroy well on the way to becoming golf’s second-ever billion-dollar player and joining Tiger Woods, who was recently valued by Forbes at over $700 million.  

by Fatiha Betscher, Bahamas. Former long-time World No. 1 Tiger Woods painted a very bleak picture and not knowing when he will or when he hosted a press conference here in the Bahamas ahead of this week’s 2015 Hero World Challenge. Woods is host of the limited field event but looked clearly to be in some pain following two back surgeries in a span of 18 months and revealing he underwent another  “procedure” in the same area of his back last month. However Woods said he is yet to start ...