Golf, by TourMiss

Excitement grows with five days to the first big showdown in world golf this season. Forget an invitational event taking place early next month in the south-east corner of Georgia as all attention will first focus next week on 2015 Lisbon Challenge. Sixteen members of the Crail Golfing Society, and golf’s seventh oldest club, will be heading to Portugal early Sunday morning ahead of the first match next Monday in the five-match series on the famed Estoril Golf Club course. The Estoril GC course ...

Padraig Harrington sadly plunged from the penthouse to the basement in his very first competitive round since capturing the Honda Classic. Harrington was lying in second last place with a shock five over par 76 early on the opening day of the $US 5.9m Valspar Championship in Tampa Bay. He had returned to Florida’s Sunshine State buoyed by a play-off victory in capturing a second Honda Classic title that also ended a seven-year PGA Tour winning drought. But 10 days on and Harrington is ...

……….Fatiha Betscher, Tampa Bay, FL. England’s Brian Davis painted the Valspar Championship course red in posting a six under par 65 as he looks to gloss over his 318th PGA Tour event victory bare patch. Davis finished birdie, birdie, bogey, bogey and 18th hole birdie to set up a one shot leas in the $US 5.9m event sponsored by leading paint manufacturer Valspar and being played on the Copperhead course Innisbrook Resort course at Tampa Bay. The 40 year  old Londoner has ...

For some bizarre reason only known to Golf Digest magazine but World No. 1 Rory McIlroy is pictured as Michelangelo’s David on the cover their April 2015 ‘Masters Preview’ edition. The story of David and Goliath is about David finding a hole in Goliath’s armor by firing a slingshot into the giant’s forehead bringing him crashing to the ground. David then takes Goliath’s sword, kills him and then cuts off his head. When the Philistine’s see their hero ...

It was a great sunset in Miami last night and just prior to boarding my flight to Altlanta and then onto Amsterdam before the final leg to Edinburgh. And after a seven-and-a-half flight to Amsterdam we were greeted by sunshine despite it only being 10 degrees.

The combined puling power of Rory McIlroy and entrepreneur Dermot Desmond should ensure new WGC – Caddilac Championship winner Dustin Johnson will tee up in this year’s Irish Open.   Johnson came from five shots back at the start of Sunday’s last day to win in his fifth event this new season after a mysterious six -month self-imposed lay-off from the game.   If Johnson accepts an invitation will join fellow victorious 2007 USA Walker Cup colleague Rickie Fowler teeing on May 28th ...

After five years the Irish Open will have a new title sponsor for the 2015 event commencing on May 28th at Royal County Down.   A European Tour source hinted the new sponsor is a well-known Ireland ‘name brand’ and will be officially unveiled this Friday.   It will be the first occasion in five years since communications giant ‘3’ sponsored the event from 2008-10 that Ireland’s premier golfing event will have an official main sponsor.   This ‘name brand’ ...