Golf, by TourMiss

Paul McGinley reckons enough is enough, going into bat for a tired-looking Rory McIlroy saying for too long he’s taken LIV Golf related verbal ‘bullets’ and that it’s time he got support from his PGA Tour colleagues. McIlroy looked tired, the batteries near empty and with his focus poor, McGinley also said following the World No. 3s disappointing opening round of 76 that left him sharing a distant 118th place in the $25m event he won three years ago. We’ve come to respect ...

Scot Craig Howie lit-up his closing two holes with birdies in finishing close to darkness on the opening day of the Magical Kenyan Open in Nairobi. Howie, 28, was the very last to tee-off on day one in the Kenyan capital and after his birdie on 17th his group rushed down the final hole to get finished and with the Scot stepping-up, and without any time to study his putt, holing a great six-footer for birdie in his three-under 68. It handed the Peebles-attached player the leading Scottish honours ...

Rory McIlroy produced his worst PGA Tour round in 53 weeks and a highest Players Championship score in two years with a horror 76 on the opening day of this year’s event. McIlroy’s 13th appearance at the Tour’s flagship event began horribly in taking a double-bogey ‘6’ after a wild drive down the right side of the 10th hole and ended with a bogey ‘5’ at the ninth and the closing hole of his round, and in between he managed just two birdies and three other bogeys. His score of 76 was ...

Scotland’s Russell Knox has his heart set this new season on two ‘home’ majors – this week’s Players Championship and July’s Genesis Scottish Open. In an exclusive, Knox talks about the events either side of ‘The Pond’ as his two ‘biggies’ this season. Knox, 37, has been living close to this week’s host TPC Sawgrass course for near on 20-years, so for wife, Andrea and their now two-year-old cute cavapoo dog, Rusty this week it’s get to stay in your own bed week. In July, ...

Bob MacIntyre’s appearance this week at the Magical Kenya Open is being labelled by local organisers a ‘Godsend’ though the Scot may think otherwise. MacIntyre has travelled to Kenya very much looking for magic, as the tournament title boasts, as he strives to return to next month’s Masters for a third year running. The Oban lefties slide down the World Rankings contiunes, dropping a further place to be now ranked World No. 94, and needing to be inside the top-50 on the rankings, as at ...

  Here’s a super golfing statistic for us weekend golfers! Next time you’re out competing in a social with your friends and you happen to put a ball in the water, you may care to remind them if they know have many balls have found their way into water over the last 20-years at the 17th hole of the TPC Sawgrass course, and home this week to the Players Championship. Since 2003, 925 balls have been lost to the water at the island-like 17th green during the Players at Ponte Vedra in ...

It’s always been the scenario when Jack speaks, the golf world sits up to take notice. I mentioned this last week on this website’s coverage of the Honda Classic that Nicklaus will always visit the tournament media centre for a chat with the media, and with no goal posts set in place as to what is discussed. Well, we know Nicklaus has been speaking to fellow Masters champion Nick Faldo, and with the ‘it’s always about me’ Faldo reinventing himself as a podcast host after the teary-eyed ...