Golf, by TourMiss

England’s highly affable is returning to the DP World Tour next fortnight for a first time in some two years and two months at the Porsche Singapore Open. Casey, 46, will join the field for the Singapore event again being held on the island nation. The now LIV attached Casey has won a highly impressive 15 of his 21 pro career victories on the DPWT, including 2019 Porsche sponsored European Open in Germany, and Casey’s always been a good supporter of Porsche hosted events so it would seem ...

Canadian-born Jim English created a first not to be copied at the Home of Golf becoming the inaugural golfer to register on-line to go in the walk-up daily ‘Singles Draw’ ballot to play the famed Old Course at St. Andrews. English, 56, visited the booking centre located beside the first tee just after 9am yesterday (Tuesday) using a Links Trust tablet to register his personal details and hoping now he gets a tee time for tomorrow (Wednesday). For as long as many can remember going into the Old ...

This week we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Players Championship, the PGA Tour’s flagship event. Four years ago, this same week you could argue the Tour’s flags were virtually at half mast and with Friday the March 13th, 2020 unfolding as the darkest day in the history of the PGA Tour. Four years on, it still lives as the day the global Covid virus brought an abrupt halt to men’s golf at its highest level and also was the harbinger for all major US sports to soon follow. And in ...

Martin Laird reckons Bob MacIntyre’s presence full-time on the PGA Tour  is a huge lift for Scottish men’s pro golf. Laird, 41, has been used to having Scottish company competing on the Tour for well over a decade thanks to fellow countryman Russell Knox. However, the double-Tour winning Knox lost full Tour status last year and it was only last week at the Puerto Rico Open the Inverness-born played a first Tour since the end of last year. In fact, there were three Scots last week teeing-up ...

Connor Syme arrives home to his beloved Scotland for a well-earned six-week break pleased after after a third best run of results in his DP World Tour career. Syme, 28, made it four rounds in the 60s in sharing sixth place at the close of the lightning-affected Jonsson Worldwear Open at Joburg. The Scot posted six birdies in a five-under 67 for a 20-under-par and just minutes before play was halted on the Glendower host course. Syme headed straight to the airport after doing everything the past three ...

Matteo Manassero brilliantly ended a 3,942 days DP World Tour winless drought and climbing back to game’s highest level in capturing the co-sanctiond Jonsson Workwear Open in Jobugh. Manassero claimed an emotional fifth Tour victory but only after play was halted for nearly two hours due to lightning, strong winds and heavy rain and with the the Italian and six others still to complete their rounds on the host Glendower course in the north-eastern suburbs of the South African capital. The champion ...

Scot Connor Syme is looking to make it a third time lucky heading into the final round of the Jonsson Workwear Open in Joburg. Syme, 28, jumped into the overtaking on golf’s traditional ‘moving day’ posting a bogey-free six-under 66 with the effort taking him to 15-under and four shots off the lead. Former Italian teenage sensation Matteo Manassero benefitted from an hour’s lightning delay, and with just two holes to play, as he returned to birdie 17 in a score of 67 and lead by a shot at ...