Golf, by TourMiss

How many protest petitions would get the backing of a Hollywood superstar? Well, golf-loving Mark Wahlberg has thrown his voice behind the campaign to “save” Sydney’s Moore Park Golf Course. Wahlberg was out playing the golf course this week during a working visit ‘Down Under’ for a new movie and the 52-year-old star of such movies as The Perfect Storm, Italian Job, Ted and The Other Guys just loves his golf as the Boston-born competes annual in the PGA Tour’s AT & T ...

Defending champion Jon Rahm will head a strong field of seven magnificent Masters champions teeing-up in next week’s LIV Golf Miami. It is one of the biggest turnout of former Augusta National champions in the same event this new golfing season set to tackle the famed ‘Blue Monster’ next week from April 5th to 7th. Joining Rahm teeing-up at next week’s Trump Doral host course is Phil Mickelson (Masters champion 2004, 2006 and 2010), Sergio Garcia (2017), Bubba Watson (2012 ...

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler has returned to his beloved Texas having won back-to-back titles on the Florida east coast. He captured the Arnold Palmer Invitational and last fortnight’s Players Championship by sporting a pretty thick and unruly-looking beard. However, he says he’s grown tired of the beard and tees-up in this week’s Texas Children’s Houson Open clean-shaven as he seeks to become the first PGA Tour player since Dustin Johnson in 2017 to win three events in ...

The Scotland pair of Robert MacIntyre and Martin Laird will carry the burden of the Home of Golf nation over these two weeks in Texas of looking to secure a place into next month’s Masters. At this stage, and with former champ Sandy Lyle having retired from Masters competition, there is no Scottish-born exempt into the 88th hosting of the year’s maiden major starting April 11th at Augusta National. To ensure this does onto happen for a first time since 1984, MacIntyre or Laird must win ...

Peter Malnati is not one of your ‘name’ players competing on the PGA Tour. In fairness to the Tennessee-based golfer it was not till February 2022 when the PGA Tour announced that both Malnati and Webb Simpson had been elected by the PGA Tour’s membership to be co-chairmen of the 16-member Player Advisory Council (PAC) that many wondered who he was. Closer observers of the game may recall October last year when Malnati ‘had a go’ at Lexi Thompson on social media when news ...

Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson reckons the more he gets to play alongside the best in the world the better and more comfortable he’ll become among the game’s elite. Ferguson, 27, found himself paired for the final round of the Porsche Singapore Classic with one of Europe’s all-time greats in England’s Paul Casey. Casey, and nearly 20-years older than the Scot, posted a closing round 69, two shots fewer than Ferguson to share sixth place at 13-under-par while the Scot was tied 11th. The ...

Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre brought some European venom to this week’s Valspar Championship that boasts the famed ‘Snake Pit’ trio of holes with a stinging caddie bib message blatantly trolling Europe’s victory scoreline in last year’s Ryder Cup. MacIntrye, 27, is contesting the £stg 6.6m Tampa event for a first time in his career and where event organisers allow golfers to post ‘messages’ on their caddie bibs. Players are given a form to complete and asked to indicate what message ...