Golf, by TourMiss

It was a golfing press conference like no other with talk of snuggling koala bears, diving with sharks, Tassie and Crows. Two of the three American LIV golfing trio sitting up in front of the assembled media at The Grange Golf Club had been to Australia before, namely Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau.  The closest Brooks Koepka got close to the land ‘Down Under’ was on a vacation to Bali, and where a great number of Aussies travel for vacation, and having had to pull out of the 2019 ...

It will be a Bathgate Golf Club members reunion for two Scottish-born players teeing-up in next week’s inaugural Abu Dhabi Challenge on the secondary Challenge Tour. This is after Louis Gaughan, and currently the club pro at Dubai Hills, posted a second round 68 for a 36-hole total of 139 and capture the 2023 Emirates UAE PGA Championships at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai. Gaughan, 29, posted a first round of one under par 71 over the Fire course Monday to be two shots back of the first ...

Reigning US Open and RBC Heritage champion Matt Fitzpatrick has slammed PGA Tour tortoses, such as Patrick Cantlay who he played alongside last Sunday at Hilton Head, as a ‘disgrace’ and also ‘appalling’. Fitzpatrick, 27, captured his first ‘regular’ PGA Tour title in birdieing the third extra hole to defeat defending champion Jordan Spieth on the host Harbor Touwn course in South Carolina. However, for a second week running a golf tournament was overshadowed by ...

Phil Mickelson’s feeling on the top of the world from the support he’s already receiving ‘down under’ in Adelaide. Mickelson arrived Monday into Australia’s fourth largest city, and a first visit to Australia in a dozen years since he was a member of the victorious Fred Couples captained 2011 USA Presidents Cup team at Royal Melbourne. Two others in that team, Dustin Johnson and Bubba Watson, will join Mickelson teeing-up Friday on The Grange course. Of course, the 52-year-old Mickelson ...

Bob MacIntyre has joined the DP World Tour on an historic first visit to the Land of the Rising Sun looking to arrest his flagging World Ranking. MacIntyre is among six Scots teeing-up in the inaugural ISPS Handa Championship Japan, being played in Omitama around a 90-minute drive north-east of Tokyo. It’s been five weeks since the struggling Oban lefty last competed and that was a new season best in his seventh event of a share of seventh at the Magical Kenya Open, though there’s been little ...

DP World Tour CEO Keith Pelley has stressed there will be ‘consequences’ to not only those LIV golfers who broke the Tour rules and regulations in joining LIV but the Tour is also looking to possibly sanction those LIV golfers who tee-up in August in back-to-back Asian Tour events in the UK. Pelley was speaking Monday in a lengthy interview with Bunkered Magazine following last fortnight’s London-based Sports Resolutions Panel decision declaring the DP World Tour was correct in fining those ...

Adelaide, the capital of the Australian state of South Australia, and lovingly known as the City of Churches … 529 christian churches. The city was founded in 1836 and named in honour of Queen Adelaide who was the wife at the time of the British monarch King William IV. It was the only freely-settled British province in Australia which, I guess, it’s a nice way of saying no ships sailed up the Torrens River laden with British-born convicts. However unlike its Sydney and Melbourne ...