Golf, by TourMiss

Jordan Spieth’s reign as World No. 1 lasted less than two weeks with this year’s double Major Champion easily missing the cut in the Barclays Championship in New Jersey. Spieth  never recovered from a first round 74 in posting a second day two over par 72 and miss the cut in the $US 8.25m event by three strokes with a shock six over tally. “Plenty of people had made me aware of that and it is what it is,” said Spieth. “Hopefully, I can regain it next week as we are playing in the ...

Australia’s newest Major Champion surprised many when he revealed he arranged for an MRI after ‘tweaking’ his back earlier this week while bending down to remove a box from under his motor home The injury forced Day out of Wednesday’s Barclays Championship Pro-Am and also meant cancelling a first formal press conference since his PGA Championship victory. Day’s management team arranged for the 27-year old to visit the nearby St. Peter’s Hospital in New Bruswick ...

A new putter and new outlook landed Russell Knox well into contention and just a shot from the lead on day one of the Barclays Championship. Knox also drew well on the ‘Scottish connection’ given the Plainfield course was designed by Dornoch-born Donald Ross in shooting a four under par 66. It put Knox into a five-way share of fifth place but only a shot back from the leading foursome that includes double Masters winning Bubba Watson. Knox said:  “I have very hard on myself the past two weeks ...

Jordan Spieth was left scratching his thinning hair after what he described his ‘worse score in years’ in his very first event, the Barclays Championship, since replacing Rory McIlroy as World No. 1. The double major winning Texan was two under par through six holes but then completed his inward nine in six over par with Spieth posting at 13th hole birdie but also six bogeys and a 12th hole double bogey on route to a four over par 74 on the Plainfield Country Club course in Edison, New ...

“By the way, your kid ate all my macaroni and cheese!” This was the response from double Masters winning Bubba Watson to a question put to him by newly-crowned PGA Champion, Jason Day. Day could have a career in golf journalism given his interviewing technique on the opening day of the PGA Tour’s Barclays Championship, and also the first event of the 2015 FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. Clubhouse leading Waston took the stand in the ‘flash area’ entertaining questions following ...

This latest trip to the U.S. continued on a nostalgic theme with a visit to a very special house in Rockville, Maryland. Three weeks ago I attended a Peter Fampton concert on the outskirts of Cleveland and some 37 years after attending the ‘Frampton Comes Alive Tour’ concert in Sydney. A week ago Tour Miss and I arrived at the front  gates of Indianapolis Motor Speedway and 36 years since good friend, Joe Sroba and myself had done the same but on a much colder November’s day in ...

Adam Scott just laughed when asked what would happen if he and new caddy, Ricci Roberts were to win the FedEx Cup. Scott has the renowned and wily Roberts on the bag for the start of the FedEx Cup Series after Ernie Els, who Roberts has been the long-time caddy, failed to qualify for the ultra-lucrative Play-Off Series. “I was a little opportunistic on the putting green last Sunday at the Wyndham, and I hadn’t had anyone lined up to caddy for me these next few weeks, and it clicked that ...