Golf, by TourMiss

An emotional Jason Day revealed he thought of quitting the game in ending a five-year winless drought to capture a second AT & T Byron Nelson championship at TPC Harding Ranch in Texas. Day, 35, had not tasted success since capturing the 2018 Wells Fargo Championship but is back in the winner’s enclosure thanks to a stunning closing round 62 to claim a 13th PGA Tour win and the 19th victory in his pro career. Waiting to greet the Aussie on a wet Mother’s Day in suburban Dallas was ...

Top Scot Richie Ramsay  reckons the past three days have ignited the belief he can secure victory at the Soudal (Belgium) Open in Antwerp. Ramsay, 39, had two holes to play when the threat of lightning halted play for 90 minutes, and with the Scot returning to par 17 and hole a three-footer for birdie at the last. The reigning Cazoo Classic champion’s five-under 66 has Ramsay sharing fifth place at 11-under, trailing four adrift of Sweden’s Simon Forsstrom who continues to lead the way, ...

Richie Ramsay was soaring after sending a stunning eagle shot to the bottom of the cup on day two of the Soudal Open at Antwerp in Belgium. Ramsay capped his second straight round of a three-under 68 in grand style, holing his  125-yard third shot for an eagle ‘3’ at the par-5 17th while Howie birdied four of his closing seven holes in a score of 67 for both to be tied at six-under and just outside the top-10. Swede Simon Forsstrom continues to lead the field adding a 67 to his opening 64 ...

Richie Ramsay sounded as comfortable as a kid candy store, posting an opening 68 at this week’s Soudal Open on the outskirts of Antwerp in Belgium. Ramsay, and a month shy to turning 40, didn’t drop a shot to be just inside the top-20 in cool and cloudy conditions on the host Rinkven International course. ​Sweden’s Simon For​s​strom ​posted a sizzling seven-under 64 to lead the way by a shot ​but only after England’s Andrew Wilson bogeyed the last just after 8pm local time ...

Paul Casey has been afforded a ‘special invitation’ into next week’s PGA Championship at Rochester in upstate New York. The 45-year-old English-born golfer will be contesting his 20th PGA Championship since making his debut in the major in 2002 at Hazeltine. Casey secured his best finish in any of the 71 majors he has contested three years ago in finishing joint runner-up in the 2020 PGA Championship won by Collin Morikawa at Harding Park. He was then T4th a year later at Kiawah Island, and ...

Poland’s Adrian Meronk has put himself well in frame for a return visit to Rome later this year after capturing a fourth ‘national’ open title in as many years. Meronk, who turns 30 later this month, again showed his enormous class producing four rounds in the 60s to capture the 97th anniversary hosting of the DS Automobiles Italian Open on the Marco Simone course that in four months will play host to the 43rd Ryder Cup. It wasn’t easy for Meronk especially after bogeying ...

Scotland’s Craig Howie knows he needs to jump quickly into the fast lane if he’s to capture a second Challenge Tour success at the UAE Challenge  in Abu Dhabi. Howie headed into golf’s traditional ‘moving day’ leading by two but stalled with four birdies and an equal number of bogeys in a level par 72 that sent the Peebles golfer back in fourth place at nine-under, trailing five shots adrift of Spaniard Manuel Elvira on the Saadiyat Beach course. The final group are ready for day ...