Golf, by TourMiss

………Fatiha Betscher, Orlando, FL. Golf’s new generation of stars in World No. 1 Rory McIlroy, Rickie Fowler and Jason Day feature in the star three-ball for the opening two rounds of this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. McIlroy is making his first appearance in the $6.3m event and carrying a first prize of $1.134m. This group features three of the game’s top players in their 20s. McIlroy turns 26 in May while Day, who is 27, is No. 5 in the world ...

Royal and Awesome led the St. Patrick’s Day golf parade at Belas Golf Club near Estoril in Portugal. Irish-born Joe Duddy looked resplendent in an appropriate pair of Paddy Par short while Bernie McGuire, an Aussie with an Irish surname, was decked out in a pair of eye-catching Par Tee shorts. A special thanks to James Dobbin from the Azalea Group for the shorts. And the good news was that Joe and myself combined to win our match 2 & 1 against Eamon Scanlon and Dave Patterson. If you’re ...

MATCHES EVEN ON DAY TWO Matches were even on day two of the 2015 Bushnell/Odyssey Lisbon Challenge at the Belas Golf Club in Belas, Portugal. Rodger’s Dodgers went into the day leading 3 points to 1 but Reid’s Raiders stopped any further damage in halving the matches on the second day. In fact, it was pairing of Roger Watson and Andy Braid who spearheaded the fight back defeating the Rodger’s Dodgers duo of John Howorth and Fraser Ireland 4 & 3. Joe Duddy and Bernie McGuire combined in ...

Eamon Scanlon, and one of Crail’s finest left-handed exponents of the ancient game, was clearly ‘steaming’ after an incident at the 16th hole on day one of the 2015 Bushnell/Odyssey Lisbon Challenge. Of course, it didn’t help that the match between he and Andy Braid against myself and the much-lover Alastair McMeekim was at a delicate stage. However let me preface the story by saying Eamon by his own admission has some two dozen balls in his golf bag but none with any markings. We ...

RODGER’S DODGERS DRAW FIRST BLOOD IN BUSHNELL/ODYSSEY 2015 LISBON CHALLENGE Peter Rodger and his team is dining out in Cascais on bragging rights after a drama-packed opening day of the 2015 Bushnell/Odyssey Lisbon Challenge. Peter led his ‘Rodger Dodgers’ team to a 3 & 1 success over ‘Reid’s Raiders’ at the Estoril Golf Club course Portugal. It was wonderful Spring day with a cloudless sky greeting the 16 Crail Golfing Society members as they made their way from Hotel Baia in Cascais ...

….. Fatiha Betscher, Tampa Bay, FL American Jordan Spieth has made it three victories in his past eight events in capturing the PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship in a play-0ff at Tampa Bay. Spieth (69) holed a 20-foot birdie putt at the third extra play-off hole to defeat fellow Americans Patrick Reed (66) and Sean O’Hair (67) after all three ended regulation place at 10-under par on the Copperhead course. It was the fourth occasion in the past five PGA Tour events (Northern Trust ...

The opening day battle lines have been drawn in the 2015 ‘Lisbon Challenge’ – a five-day feast of frenzied competition among 16 of the finest members of Crail Golfing Society, and golf’s seventh oldest club. After a below zero 3.30am local time Sunday morning departure from Crail the group arrived in the Portuguese capital right on time at 9.30am following a two-and-a-half flight from Ediburgh. It was a cloudless blue sky Sunday morning in Lisbon and despite a cold wind blowing ...