Golf, by TourMiss

If you’re not Scottish born but consider yourself a serious golfer, then you’ve no doubt visited the Home of Golf nation. And if you’ve played many of the Scottish golfing gems then you probably are keen to savour some other of the not so well-known Scottish golf courses. So, with this thought in mind can I recommend extending your next Scottish golfing adventure by heading to the top of the Scottish mainland, and then take the short 90-minute ferry trip to the stunning Orkney Islands. The ...

Christmas/New Year greetings from Sainte Maxime  (pronounced ‘Maksim’), located here on the Mediterranean Sea in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in Southeastern France. We’re located in the French Riviera (Côte d’Azur), 90 km (56 mi) south-west from Nice and 130 km (81 mi) north-east from Marseille, and about a 20/30 minute drive from Saint Tropez or about 15-minutes in catching the ferry the runs between both towns. Sainte Maxime boasts  a population of ...

It was a great way to celebrate one’s birthday – visiting the Lochranza Distillery & Visitor Centre on the Isle of Arran. The centre, and open 7 days a week, is owned by the award winning Isle of Arran Distillers Ltd, is situated in the beautiful village of Lochranza at the north end of the Isle of Arran. We had arrived on Arran a few days earlier and enjoyed playing golf at Whiting Bay and Shiskine golf clubs, so what a wonderful offical last stop before boading the ferry and returning ...

The annual Masters already has the smallest field of the four majors and could be heading for its lowest number of player invitations in nearly 40-years at next April’s 90th anniversary hosting. Sixty-six players are already exempt while 11 more on December 31st will receive an mail, postmarked ‘Augusta, GA’ in being inside the top-50 of the World Rankings. That would bring the total to 77 invitations and a lowest field since 1985 when also 77 teed-up, and we saw Germany’s ...

I was looking at some of the latest golf-related stories the other day when I came across this article: ‘Should You Play Golf on Christmas Day?” It quickly took me back decades when my brother, Steve and I used to play golf on Christmas Day, and in those years when we were first getting into the deep end in playing golf. We grew-up in the lower North Shore region of Sydney.  Our father, Terry, was the first in the family to play golf.  He joined the 9-hole Castlecove Country Club course, ...

Meet the five golfers, and the following with much thanks to the PGA Tour, who earned full status on the PGA Tour for 2024 at the close of Monday’s (December 18th) rain-delayed Final Qualifying at Ponte Vedra in Florida. Harrison Endycott (Sydney, Australia) Age: 27 Career PGA TOUR starts: 33 A Sydney, Australia born rookie on the PGA TOUR last year, Endycott narrowly missed out by 14 spots in securing a top 125 finish on the FedExCup to secure full status for 2024, though he retained ...

Sydneysider Harrison Endycott is returning to the PGA Tour on a winning note, finishing top-qualifier by an impressive four shots in the storm-affected Q-School final at Ponte Vedra in Florida. Endycott, 27, posted a final round, three-under 67 on the Dye’s Valley’s course at TPC Sawgrass for a 15-under-par total to secure the top spot among the five leading players who will now join the 2024 PGA Tour. 🇦🇺 AUSSIE RULES 🇦🇺 With fellow Sydneysider Harrison ...