Golf, by TourMiss

Utopian is defined as modelled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect. Will Zalatoris revealed he, and like his fellow pros, harbours the goal that men’s professional golf will one day get back to perfect. It’s been a month shy of six months since the world’s best golfers, and that includes LIV golfers, last teed-up in a major championship. Disappointingly, it’s been a month shy of 18 months since super-talented Zalatoris last contested a major and that ...

Scots Martin Laird and Robert MacIntyre have been strangely dropped from the entry list teeing-up in this week’s historic $20m Arnold Palmer Invitational at the Bay Hill club in Orlando. MacIntyre is now based just two miles from the host this week’s Florida course but instead he’s driven past the Bay Hill turnoff on route to the airport and joins Laird in this week’s Tour sanctioned event over 1,100 miles away in Puerto Rico. The current World No. 68 MacIntyre arrived on ...

ST FRANCIS BAY (Eastern Cape) – America’s Jordan Gumberg claimed a thrilling victory in the SDC Championship at St Francis Links on Sunday when he beat South Africa’s Robin ‘Tiger’ Williams with a birdie at the second playoff hole. Gumberg and Williams finished regulation play tied for the lead on 12 under par following their respective final rounds of 68 and 69. On a day when the wind of the previous three days gave way to rain, local hero Williams had seemed destined to claim ...

EXCLUSIVE … Top-Scot Bob MacIntyre is staring at two of the biggest exclusive tournaments of his short PGA Tour career he’ll contest this week in his new home state of Florida. MacIntyre will tee-up tomorrow (Monday) for a first time in the Seminole Player/Member outing at the just as exclusive Donald Ross designed Seminole Club course at Juno Beach. The Scot along former Scottish Open champ Rickie Fowler are in the fourball behind Tiger Woods, who is returning to competition for a ...

Tiger Woods will return to competition on Monday when he joins one of the best fields on the year in teeing-up in the annual Seminole Pro-Member outing at the ultra-exclusive Florida club. Seminole is about a 30-minute drive from Woods equally ultra-private Hobe Sound abode and he’ll be joined by a real who’s who from both the professional playing ranks and those who administer the game, Some of the star players included the Irish duo of Rory McIlroy and Padraig Harrington along with ...

Scot Connor Syme is determined to finally walk through a first Tour victory door in sharing the lead heading to the final round of the SDC Championship at Eastern Cape in South Africa. Syme, 28, grabbed seven birdies, including three in succession from the sixth in a round of 67 to be tied at the top on 11-under with England’s Daniel Brown, and two shos clear of the field. The Scot bogeyed the second in the continuing windy conditions on the Scottish-like St. Francis Links host course before  ...

‘Mr Ryder Cup’ Ian Poulter probably was stating the brutally obvious in declaring his days of playing in a European Team are over. Poulter’s now aged 48 and last pulled on the European team colours in 2021, a year proir to men’s professional golf being torn apart with the formation of LIV. ‘Poults’ is among many LIV stars who were deemed ineligible along with the likes of Sergio Garcia and Lee Westwood after they resigned their DP World Tour memberships to sign ...