Golf, by TourMiss

TPC Louisiana staff wasted no time recognizing the efforts of Ben Martin’s course record setting 10-under par 62 on the opening day of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. And as you can observe from the photograph below Martin’s name was up on wall of the clubhouse when players arrived this morning for the second day’s play in the $US 6.8m event. Martin didn’t drop a shot in his 62 that included 23 putts ahead of the 26-year old South Carolina native adding a round of 67 that ...

Organisers of this year’s Open Championship don’t expect a drop in ticket sales should Tiger Woods not tee up at Royal Liverpool. Good friend and Daily Record colleague Euan McLean reports the R & A s views on the matter. Euan writes: With no announcement so far on the world No.1’s comeback from spinal surgery, uncertainty hangs over Woods’s participation in the forthcoming Majors and the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles. But Open organisers at the R&A yesterday reported buoyant ...

Supercaddy John ‘Ronnie’ Roberts came to the rescue of reigning PGA Champion Jason Duffner moments before the American was due to tee off in round two of the Volvo China Open. Here is ‘Ronnie’s’ own words have he saved Duffner some embarrassment ahead of his round on the Genzon Golf Club course. Because Brett Rumford, US PGA champion Jason Dufner & world No3 Henrik Stenson were off early R2 (0725) there was insufficient time for everyone in the group to go to the ...

Just a few days after taking out a 6-iron to record a hole-in-one in a social game with his father at Lake Nona, and Sweden’s Peter Hanson used the same club to hole out from 184-yards for an eagle during the first round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Hanson’s ace at the par three 17th was his ninth in his professional career and while admitting ‘it also cost me a fortune’ he stands to reap a bigger reward this week in starting with an eight under par 64 in the $US ...

American Rickie Fowler says he’s in full agreement with Rory McIlroy’s comments from the recent Shell Houston Open that golf’s 20-something brigade need to create a new world order in golf. Fowler and McIlroy are best of friends and with only a few months in age separating the American from his Northern Ireland born colleague. Of course, inside the ropes the pair are the fiercest of rivals as evident when Fowler denied McIlroy a second victory in the Quail Hollow Championship in a play-off ...

Call it the ‘Phil Mickelson Effect’ but more of the world’s top stars are lining up to contest this year’s Aberdeen Asset Scottish Open. On top of Europe’s best looking forward to competing for a first time at Royal Aberdeen is a number of leading American players now believing Phil Mickelson has got it right in contesting the Scottish Open in the week prior to The Open. Mickelson became the first player ever to win both the Scottish Open and The Open in the same season. The latest to express ...

Padraig Harrington was pleased a new putting alignment lasted a full 18 holes after recording a two under par 70 on the opening day of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Harrington took a new alignment into the event and after a 20-minute delay to the start of play due to fog, he emerged in then very hot conditions with four birdies and half as many bogeys on the TPC Avondale course. “My new alignment on the greens is nothing revolutionary or anything but at least it lasted the round,” he said. “I ...