Golf, by TourMiss

A little over three months after walking the course with a microphone in his hand, and Stevie Gallacher has returned to Abu Dhabi for this week’s impressive line-up in the inaugural Challenge Tour’s Abu Dhabi Challenge. It is the first of two weeks in the UAE capital with the Saadiyat Beach course hosting next week’s UAE Challenge. Gallacher is among 19 former DP World Tour winners boasting a total of 46 victories, including the Tour’s ‘Mr. 59’, Ollie Fisher and seven-time winning Spaniard ...

Paul McGinley has slammed those critics all too quickly to pass judgement on Rory McIlroy following his bitter disappointment at the Masters, and a decision then to withdraw from the following week’s RBC Heritage. As we know, the four-time Major winning McIlroy only needs to win at Augusta National to join the most elite club in all of golf but after missing the Augusta cut it means waiting another 12 months for that hopeful maiden Masters triumph. McGinley, and long-time close friend and confidant ...

Young Scot Jack McDonald has led from start to finish in securing a stunning and highly-impressive nine-shot victory in the famed Battle Trophy at Crail Golfing Society in Crail. After being runner-up a year ago McDonald brilliantly rewrote the 2023 script posting opening scores of 73 and 74 on Saturday and then backed-up on Sunday with rounds of 69 and 70 for a two-under 72-hole victory tally on the 24th anniversary of the event on the Craighead Links course at golf’s seventh oldest club, Making ...

Scottish men’s pro golf received a timely confidence shot in the arm with three players finishing inside the top-four at the close of the ISPS Handa International in Japan. Gleneagles Calum Hill and Cragielaw’s Grant Forrest each led the inaugural hosting of the event during the course of the four days, and with both players well in the mix on the last day of the host course to the north of Tokyo. Hill, and clearly back to his best after being side-lined for all but three events last year due ...

Aussie Lucas Herbert has made it four wins on four different countries after his play-off success in the ISPS Championship in Japan. Herbert defeated Canadian Aaron Cockerill at the second extra play-off hole after the two players ended regular competition locked at 15-under on the host PGM Ishioka course at Omitama, located just to the north of Tokyo. The win for Herbert is his third on the DP World Tour after earlier victories in 202o at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic and the 2021 Dubai Duty Free ...

It wasn’t pretty but Talor Gooch held on to capture a maiden LIV Golf title with his victory on The Grange course in Adelaide. Gooch, 31, went into third and final round leading by a massive 10-shots but the pressure seemed to get to the American who found himself at three-over with still eight holes to play. However to his credit, the Oklahoma-born Gooch held signing for a closing round score of a one-over 73 for a 19-under three-shot victory total on the host The Grange course in the South Australian ...

Reigning Open Champion Cam Smith and former World No. 1 and double major winning Dustin Johnson have thrown their support behind calls for back-to-back LIV Golf events in Australia. It’s been just two days into a three-day golf tournament, but the sold-out crowd scenes at The Grange club in suburban Adelaide already has rival state New South Wales looking to cash-in on the clear popularity and already enormous success of what we’ve been witnessing in the City of Churches. New South Wales ...