Golf, by TourMiss

There is nothing like the spills and thrills of match-play golf! That was clearly evident after the opening day of the WGC – Cadillac Match Play Championship with upsets galore on the TPC Harding Park course in suburban San Francisco. Defending champion Jason Day, third-ranked Henrik Stenson, last week’s PGA Tour winner Justin Rose (No. 6), Adam Scott (No. 9) and Matt Kuchar (No. 14) all lost Wednesday. However in the new round robin pool format they will all live on to play another ...

Australian-born Marc Leishman says he has always had pretty good perspective when it comes to golf. But it changed when his wife nearly died four weeks ago after suffering toxic shock syndrome, acute respiratory distress syndrome and sepsis. Any one of the three alone can be fatal. Audrey Leishman was stricken with all of them at once and told she had a 5 percent chance of surviving before being medically induced into a coma. Slowly, however, she started to recover and even though she isn’t 100 ...

Webb Simpson is in San Francisco for the first time since his victory in the 2012 U.S. Open at Olympic Club and he’s returned to the club of Major Championship triumph. The American traveled to the Olympic club, where he  won by a shot, on the eve of this week’s WGC – Cadillac Match-Play Championship. However his first stop was not the practice range but the snack shop located near the driving range, to see if he could get one of the club’s famed burger dogs. Unfortunately the ...

With The Players Championship set to start next week, the PGA TOUR mourns the loss of Calvin Peete, a winner of the event 30 years ago and a pioneer who overcame great physical hardship to become a dominant TOUR player in the 1980s.  Peete died Wednesday morning in Atlanta, Ga.  He was 71. Peete was born July 18, 1943, in Detroit as the eighth of nine children to Dennis and Irenna Peete. He won 12 PGA TOUR titles in his career, and of those dozen victories, 11 of them came between 1982 and 1986—all ...

Here’s a quick look at each of the 32 matches scheduled for today’s (WED) first round of the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Match Play at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. JUSTIN ROSE, England (0-0) vs. MARC LEISHMAN, Australia (0-0), Group 6, 12:50 PM ET Fresh off his win in New Orleans last week, Rose certainly is in form. Meanwhile, Leishman’s only top 10 this season came in November at the HSBC Champions. He just returned to action last week after his wife suffered a medical ...

The inaugural Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match-Play Championship is going to offer those competing on the European Tour valuable match-play experience. With the world’s top-64 teeing up later today (WED) in the WGC – Cadillac Match-Play Championship in San Francisco Lawrie many of those European Tour members not in the top-64 to chance to hone their match-play skills on the Murcar Links course just north of Lawrie’s beloved Aberdeen. The golf media got the chance to catch-up with ...

Former Open  Champion Paul Lawrie has officially launched his inaugural Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match-Play Championship at the Murcar Links Golf Club just north of his beloved Aberdeen. Sixty-four players will tee-up in the event being staged from 30th July to 2nd August. It is the first time in Lawrie’s illustrious career, capped by his Open Championship victory in 1999 at Carnoustie, the Scot will also play host to a European Tour event. And joining Lawrie for this launch this morning ...