Golf, by TourMiss

Graeme McDowell created a career first and heads into next week’s British Open in the best possible manner after virtually being handed on plate a successful defence of the French Open in Versailles. It is McDowell’s 13th pro career success around the globe but also the first occasion in McDowell’s professional career he’s retained a title McDowell was eight shots behind American Kevin Stadler heading to the final round on the 2018 Ryder Cup host venue before ending-up carding ...

A handful of Scots including double European Tour winner Alastair Forsyth remain hopeful Scottish Open organisers will tomorrow (MON) show further loyalty to Scottish golf with a last minute invitation into this week’s Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open. At this late stage 13 Scots will tee up next Thursday’s 156-player strong field headed by current World No. 37 Stephen Gallacher. By comparison there was 27 French-born who teed up Thursday in the French Open and a superb initiative ...

Double Major winning Rory McIlroy will be back out on Royal Liverpool today playing a second practice round ahead of next week’s Open Championship. McIlroy has never competed at Royal Liverpool and was still an amateur in 2006 when golf’s oldest Major was last contested on the course in 2006. However he was out on the course yesterday and tweeted this picture of the 18th hole where he will be expecting to lift the Claret Jug for first time on July 20th. McIlroy will then travel to Aberdeen ...

Former champion Jeev Milka Singh has already stolen a march on his rivals including many of the Scots in the field in already having played this week’s Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open host venue. Singh, who won the 2012 Scottish Open in a play-off, hosted a corporate outing at Royal Aberdeen early in the week of last year’s defence of his title at Castle Stuart. Only a handful of players in the field, including Aberdonians Paul Lawrie and Richie Ramsay, along with Stephen Gallacher and ...

Gaston Lenotre (20 May 1920 – 8 January 2009) was a renowned French pastry chef and caterer. And his wonderful legacy lives on with shops all over Paris and one we visited in Versailles. The shop had on display a wonderful and truly mouth-watering selection of flan’s, meringe tartes, concerto’s, milefeuille’s and macarons. And standout was this superb eclair tree sprinkled with macaron’s. Anyway here is a selection of photographs taken on our visit during this week’s ...

Stephen Gallacher quickly brushed off taking a double bogey at the last to remain seven shots from the lead in the French Open at the National course near Versailles. Gallacher had raced to three under for his round after just four holes but then played his closing seven holes in five over including dunking his tee shot into the drink down the 18th in a score of 73. It sent the Scot back into a seven-way share in fourth place and tied along with the likes of fellow Scot Scott Jamieson at three under ...

Graeme McDowell got a text message earlier this week from a fellow Irishman who is the golfing head coach at the University of Alabama. It’s the same university McDowell attended and the former US Open champion is a good friend of Dublin-born Alan Murray. However after present University of Alabama student Paul Dunne finished first at Tuesday’s Open Championship qualifier Murray sent off a text message to McDowell asking if he would agree to play a practice round with the ultra-talented ...