Golf, by TourMiss

Organisers have confirmed Rory McIlroy will tee-up in the year’s 102nd anniversary Valero Texas Open from April 4th to 7th in the week prior the Masters. McIlroy’s appearance will be a huge boost to the tournament again being staged on the host Greg Norman designed Oaks Course at TPC San Antonio course in the Lone Star State. McIlroy last contested the Texas tournament in 2022 but missed the cut. Prior to that McIlroy had not played the week prior to the year’s traditional first ...

American amateur sensation Nick Dunlap has become the youngest winner on the PGA Tour in 114-years, and also the first amateur to win in 33-years with his stunning victory in the American Express Championship at La Quinta in California. The 20-year-old reigning US Amateur champion, who is still in college in Alabama, withstood the final round challenge from defending champ Sam Burns in posting a closing round 70 and win by a stroke with a 29-under-par tally on host Pete Dye Stadium course. As an ...

No sooner had Rory McIlroy captured a record-setting fourth Hero Dubai Desert Classic title and he found himself facing a Masters drought related question. McIlroy has become also only the second player to win the Desert Classic back-to-back while he’s now also won back-to-back tournament victories only for a second time in his 38 tournament winning career, having captured the 2021 and ’22 CJ Cup on the PGA Tour. His win at the host Emirates Golf Club comes 13-years in winning a first ...

Rory McIlroy was in a class all of his own in capturing a record-setting fourth Hero Dubai Desert Classic and the 38th victory of his pro career. McIlroy toasted success in posting a closing round 70 to win by two shots at 14-under from Poland’s Adrian Meronk on the host Emirates Club course. Victory also sees McIlroy joining Scotland’s Stevie Gallacher as only the second repeat winner in the now 35-year history of the premier Dubai event. McIlroy headed into closing day of the the sesaon’s ...

There’s a reason the third round of a four-round golf tournament is affectionately known an ‘Moving Day’. Rory McIlroy knows what ‘Moving Day’ is all about coming from 10 shots off the lead heading to the third day of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic for the defending champion to superbly muscle his way into the clubhouse lead thanks to a closing hole eagle ‘3’ in his score of 63 for a 12-under tally. McIlroy’s round was a lowest by four shots of anyone ...

Aussie Lucas Herbert is reportedly on the verge of signing with LIV golf to join Cam Smith’s all-Aussie Ripper GC team. Herbert, who turned 28 earlier last month, is the likely replacement for fellow Aussie Jediah Morgan, who lost his spot on the Saudi-funded tour after the installation of promotion and relegation rules for players. Herbert has won four times in his career – three DP World Tour victories starting with his play-off success on Australia Day (January 26th) at the 2020 Omega ...

Very sad news in learning the passing of double-major winning American John ‘Jack’ Burke Jr, just 10 days shy of his 101st birthday, and a person I had the great pleasure of meeting in his Houston office five years ago just ahead of the 2018 Masters. Burke was the son of a professional golfer, Jack Burke Sr., and capped his career winning two major titles, both in 1956, the Masters and PGA Burke also won 16 PGA Tour events between 1950 and 1963. He won four times in 1950 and five times ...