Golf, by TourMiss

Springbok golfer Jaco Van Zyl was all alone in First Class after posting a new course 11-under par 61 on the first day of the Turkish Airlines Open at Belek. Van Zyl carved a stroke off the old Montgomerie course low and with the Johannesburg born golfer also setting a new European Tour personal low by three strokes. It put the hang-gliding and micro flights enthusiast three shots clear of the field competing in the $US 7m event, and the opening tournament in the Final Four Series. “I played ...

Scotland has won the right to host The Solheim Cup in 2019 and the 16th edition of the greatest team event in women’s golf will be played at the world famous PGA Centenary Course at The Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire. After an extensive and very competitive bidding process, the final decision saw Scotland’s submission up against a strong bid from Sweden, which nominated The Bro Hof Slott Golf Club as its proposed venue. Earlier in the year, ten countries – Denmark, England, Netherlands, ...

Tiger Woods again showed his generous side in donating $26,000 at a charity auction for a unique pair of Nike shoes. Woods donation was part of $1m raised for the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon and not far from the world headquarters of Nike. It made for a sum total of $13.8m that has been raised in special collaboration with the hospital and a team of Nike designers, and with the hospital patients paired with designers to design sneakers and some apparel. And one of the highlight ...

American Scott Piercy sizzled in the Malaysian heat to seize a three shot lead with an equal tournament record on day one of the CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur Piercy grabbed 10 birdies on the Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club course to finish well ahead of Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, who had eight birdies and a bogey in his 65. Piercy’s 10-under score matched the tournament record set by Nick Watney, who had a 61 at the par-71 Mines Resort and Golf Club in 2012. Jason Gore was tied for ...

The Dallas Cowboys have Jerry’s World, the nickname of the team’s enormous, glitzy stadium. Now the city of Dallas has something to honor Jordan Spieth. AT&T built a mosaic of Spieth with more than 24,000 golf balls. It is on display at Main Street Garden in downtown. Spieth, a Dallas native, won the Masters and U.S. Open and captured the FedExCup this year. AT&T is one of his primary sponsors. “He’s had a magical season, it’s really a work of art,” Ryan Luckey of AT&T ...

In some seven month’s time Rory McIlroy faces a delicate decision and it could result in the four-time Major winner not contesting the European Tour’s flagship 2016 BMW PGA Championship. While new European Tour CEO Keith Pelley rightly felt proud to get McIlroy to agree to contest this week’s Turkish Airlines Open, the new Tour chief could be staring at dosing the flames of a second McIlroy started spot fire. In the wash-up of his widely publicised ankle injury McIlroy is not about to contest ...

England’s Lee Corfield wiped off a two-shot deficit to stormy home in windy conditions and win the Ghala Open for his fourth victory on the MENA Golf Tour. Playing in the day’s second last group, Corfield closed with a bogey-free three-under 69 to finish at eight under, two clear of Germany’s Aaron Leitmannstetter with England’s Stuart Archibald settling for third on five under. “It was probably the best round I played this year. Going bogey-free in such windy and tricky conditions ...