Golf, by TourMiss

Masters champion Patrick Reed along with fellow American and former PGA Championship winning Jimmy Walker’s presence these past three weeks on the DP World Tour has been a great lift for growing golf in the Middle East. Also, not forgetting Europe’s own three-time major-winning Padraig Harrington who has also teed-up in Dubai, Ras Al Khaimah and now Bahrain. The Texas duo of Reed and Walker are in their own way continuing a similar trend set by Tiger Woods at the height of his career, ...

Red-hot Chilean Joaquin Niemann has put himself in contention to capture a second straight Asian Tour International Seies event two years apart. Niemann, who captered last year’s season-ending PIF International in Saudi Arabia, returned to play two holes of his delayed opening round and then, in starting his second round from the 10th he birdied the 15th and 16th holes before brilliantly eagling the par-5 eighth hole or the 17th of his round in a score of 68. It handed the 26-year-old a 36-hole ...

Former Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington reckons opposition player familiarity will lead to less of a challenge when Europe seek to retain the Ryder Cup later this year at Bethpage Park Black in Wilmington, New York. New York sports fans are traditionally known worldwide as some of the meanest and toughest on the planet, and this being so obvious when a rival NFL, NHL or NBA sides travel to the Big Apple. We’ve also seen in past US Opens held at Bethpage Park Black the ‘take no prisoners’ ...

Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy are both proudly Irish-born. They played junior golf together. They’ve both tasted success in the Irish Open and are loyal members of the DP World Tour. They’ve been team-mates in the past two Ryder Cups while the play countless practice rounds together. Competing on the PGA Tour, they teamed last year to win the Zurich Classic of New Orleans while outside of the competition ropes, both families get on famously. MINE WAS DEFINITELY BETTER THAN YOURS ….. Declares ...

Rory McIlroy celebrated his first round of his first PGA Tour event for 2025 with a brilliant hole-in-one at the Spyglass Hill course and one of two host courses for the AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The World No. 3 found the bottom of the cup in ONE at the short 119-yard, par-3 15th hole. There was high-5s and handshakes all round for McIlroy who was playing the hole as the 6th of his round. It is only McIlroy’s second ace on the PGA Tour.  His first coming at the 2023 Travelers Championship ...

A contented Richie Ramsay avoided more of the early season ‘rabbit holes’ to take ‘Route 66’ and put himself into contention on day one of the Bapco Energies Bahrain Golf Championship. Ramsay, 41, battled the blustery but bright conditions, missing just one fairway in posting eight birdies in a six-under-par 66 on the host Colin Montgomerie course in the oil rich nation. The four-time winning Scot ended the day in a four-way share of third place and five shots adrift of England’s ...

England’s Brandon Robinson-Thompson celebrated only his 15th DP World Tour event with a Tour record low first round of an 11-under 61 on the opening day of the Bapco Energies Bahrain Golf Championship in Bahrain. Robinson-Thompson, 32, grabbed two eagles along with eight birdies to set a new personal first round Tour low in his first full season on the DP World Tour while he also shattered the host Royal Golf Club course record by three shots. The effort lifted the current World No. 284 to ...