Golf, by TourMiss

Italian Matteo Manessero is now just one tournament away from the real likelihood of securing full PGA Tour membership for the 2025 season. Manassero heads into this week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship lying fifth among the leading 10 players, otherwise not exempt, who will earn full PGA status. It is the second year running such a reward is on offer to DP World players as we’ve seen this year what can be accomplished with Scot Robert MacIntyre now enjoying the golf world ...

Some seven weeks after leading his LIV Golf ‘Ripper’ side to a $US 14m triumph in Texas and Cam Smith tees-up as the star attraction in the $AUD 800,000 New South Wales Open being played close to Australia’s famed Murray River. It is the second of four straight ‘Down Under’ tournaments for the 2022 Open Championship winning hero and culminating with the ISPS Handa Australian Open in Melbourne. Smith’s first event back home was last fortnight where he finished third ...

Rory McIlroy has spoken ahead of this week of his desire to cut down his yearly playing schedule. The World No. 3 at the close of this week’s DP World Tour Championship will have contested 26 tournaments this year and that will be five more than last year while the last time he played anywhere near 26 events was 27 back in 2010. McIlroy’s highest number events a year remains 29 events in 2008 and in a first full year as a professional, and also a year he turned 19-years of age. He tees-up ...

Despite the still unresolved division in the men’s professional game those that make a living competing inside the ropes still seem to show enormous respect to their fellow golfers no matter what tour they represent. Take five time DP World Tour No. 1 Rory Mcllroy who spoke warmly of Sergio Garcia and how the super Spaniard inspired him in his early years as a professional. Though that was not the scenario a few years back when Garcia and McIlroy had a huge falling out that looked like ruining ...

Top Scot Robert MacIntyre heads into his final DP World Tour (DPWT) event of the season singing the praise of ​his ‘career changing’ year. The lofty World No. 16 tees-up in the DP World Tour Championship joining American Billy Horschell as the only player this week to have won twice on this year’s PGA Tour​ and along with Rory McIlroy and Horschel, MacIntyre’s won both on the PGA and DPWR Tours in 2024. MacIntyre headed into his rookie PGA Tour season struggling with his game and ...

Billy Horschel has become one of the more popular Americans in recent years to compete on the DP World Tour (DPWT) Indeed the soon-to-be 38-year-old’s first ‘regular’ DPWT event was a fourth place finish at the 2019 BMW PGA Championship. Horschel returned two years later to capture the Tour’s flagship event and also adding two earlier events, both in Scotland – the Scottish Open and the Dunhill Links to his schedule. While a year later in 2022 he added a fourth and teeing-up ...

The return of the Austrian and Turkish Opens, as well a tournament in Louisville, Kentucky, will be all part of the 2025 DP World Tour global schedule which is announced today. ·        Features a minimum of 42 tournaments in a minimum of 26 different countries. ·        Austrian and Turkish Opens return, as does the Nedbank Golf Challenge. ·        ‘Global Swings’, the ‘Back 9’ and the ‘DP World Tour Play-Offs’ form three phases. Featuring a minimum of 42 Race ...