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England’s David Howell celebrated his 500th European Tour event with a one over par 72 on the opening day of the French Open. Howell was met around his round by European Tour Director of International Policy, Keith Waters and presented with a commemorative ice bucket, and also a day after he led his Pro Am team to victory on the National course here in the outskirts of Versailles. However there was some confusion in fact when Howell did compete first on the European Tour and with the five time ...

Work has finally got underway on course at Gleneagles and host venue for this year’s Ryder Cup. Stuart Adams exclusive photographs reveal one of the first structures to be built on the Jack Nicklaus designed course is a corporate structure on the first fairway of the PGA Centenary course. And with less than a 100 days to the European versus USA showdown Stuart and www.golfbytourmiss.com will keep you up to date will all that is happening at Gleneagles.  

Reigning French Open champ Graeme McDowell will be officiating as on-course referee ahead of tomorrow’s (FRID) Word Cup Germany v France showdown. Organisers of the Euro 3m event have grouped McDowell with 2009 winner Martin Kaymer and French golfing ace Victor Dubuisson for the first two days of the Euro 3m event. And the Tour has done all three a favour with an early second round tee time ahead of the Germany –v- France crunch match in Brazil. So with no Northern Ireland interest in Brazil ...

Open Championship favourite Martin Kaymer will be keeping the famed Claret Jug away from his Aunt Ekky after the German golfing ace wanted to stick a bunch of flowers in his gleaming crystal Players Championship trophy. After missing the cut in last week’s BMW International Open Kaymer revealed he attended a family function at the residence of his 65-year old aunt who lives also in the Dusseldorf region. The German arrived with both the gleaming U.S. Open trophy and his Players Championship reward ...

Stephen Gallacher confessed he’s never experienced a more important six week stretch in his career than the period commencing with today’s (THUR) starting French Open in Versailles. The French Open heralds the start of a five tournament run for Gallacher including next week’s Scottish Open along with the following week’s Open Championship and then his last two events in the U.S. this season, the back-to-back WGC – Bridgestone Invitational and the August 7th starting PGA Championship at ...

With less than 100 days to the Ryder Cup and Graeme McDowell admits he’s behind the European Ryder Cup qualifying 8-ball. The soon-to-be new father is currently 16th overall on the points table and seven spots outside of qualifying automatically for Paul McGinley’s side. However McDowell should need no reminding  of his talent and only having to look back a year ago when he arrived in Versailles in the midst of an eight week run when he missed five cuts but won three times. “That ...

Australia’s Adam Scott and Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy are 12/1 favorites to win next fortnight’s Open Championship at Royal Liverpool. Recent U.S. Open champion Martin Kaymer plus reigning PGA Tour and European Tour No. 1 Henrik Stenson have opened 15/1 in odds released by the Las Vegas based GolfOdds.com. Tiger Woods, and who will be competing in only his second event since back surgery, had opened at 20/1. “I am still not expecting much from Tiger here, although he ...