Golf, by TourMiss

Every journalist wants to see their name up high as author of either a front page news item or the lead sports story on  the back of the newspaper. However one of my first ‘scoops’ was not necessarily a story I wrote but in fact I found myself the subject of the story. Allow me to rewind to March 1988. I am working as the Chief Private Secretary to Ken Booth, M.P and the Treasurer of New South Wales in Australia. I had spent four years working on the private staff of the Premier of New ...

Former Masters champion Adam Scott confessed it was harder staring over his play-off putt to win last year at Augusta National than in ‘popping the question’ to his wife Marie Kojzar. The duo were married in a very hush, hush ceremony on 17th April and four days after Scott’s defense of the Masters. Scott’s parents had been present at Augusta and then joined their son in travelling on to Scott’s Bahamas residence where the ceremony was conducted in the backyard of Scott’s ...

Double Major winner Rory McIlroy again took the sting out of the TPC Sawgrass back nine in a third round 69 to move to a then share of 32nd place on three under par. However for a third day running the 25-year old battled over the Players Championship outward nine. In fact, McIlroy is nine over par for the outward half over the three days of the $US 10m championship but in comparison he’s 12 under par for the homeward half. McIlroy went into the third day’s play having just made the cut ...

Continuing fog delays has forced officials to reduce the Madeira Islands Open to 36 holes. Fog had resulted in a complete abandonment to play on Thursday as well as disrupting Friday and with half of the field of 77 managing to complete their first round in the Tour’s 1,500th event. The 600-meter high Clube de Golf do Santo da Serra course was again shrouded in fog shortly after the restart this morning (Sat) to the first round and resulting in yet another delay in the Euro 600,000 event. It ...

Martin Kaymer again singled out Scottish-born caddy Craig Connelly for special praise after remaining in the lead after two rounds of the Players Championship. Kaymer raised the German flag even higher in the PGA Tour’s flagship event adding a 69 to his opening course record equaling 63 to move to 12-under par in the $US 10m event. The Dusseldorf-born golfer is looking for a first win since he and Connelly tasted success in the 2012 Nedbank Challenge at Sun City and some two months after Connelly ...

If Graeme McDowell had his way he would see this week’s PGA Tour’s flagship Players Championship return to being a part of the ‘Florida Swing’. It is now five years since PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem was instrumental in moving the $US 10m event from a March date, and a virtual curtain-raiser two weeks prior to the Masters, to a month after the season’s first Major Championship. That decision has somewhat back-fired on Finchem and moreso this week with the course not as in near as good ...

Twenty-year old Jordan Spieth this week could become the fifth youngest two-time winner on the PGA Tour since 1932. Spieth heads into the third round of the $US 10m Players Championship trailing one shot behind Germany’s Martin Kaymer after rounds of 67 and 66 for an impressive 11 under par tally, and also not one bogey in his first appearance in the PGA Tour’s flagship event. Ralph Guldahl was aged 20 years, two months and 9 days when he won the 1932 Arizona Open to his 1931 Santa Monica ...