Golf, by TourMiss

DP World Tour fans know much about this week’s host Marco Simone course with the Rome course having hosted the past three Italian Open Championships. European Ryder Cup players – Nicolai Hogjaard (2021) and Bob MacIntyre (2022) – are past winners while their fellow Ryder Cup team-mates Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick were runners-up in those two years. However for many of the players, including a good few on the European Team, this week will be the first taste of formal competition ...

Younger blood is seemingly better when it comes to Ryder Cup knowledge than the worth of tried-and-tested experience. Justin Rose this week brings the weath of six prior European Ryder Cup appearances, having made his debut in 2008 at Valhallla in Kentucky. Rose was then aged 28 and now 15-years older he boasts the European Team the experience of contesting 23 matches, winning 13, losing eight and halving two for 14 career points. And with the affable Englishman remaining loyal to the European Tour ...

A 30-year victory drought in any sport is a long time but that’s the glaring fact facing the USA Ryder Cup side teeing-up this week in Rome. It was 1993 when a Tom Watson led American team last won the Ryder Cup on European soil with their 15-13 triumph at The Belfry. However, when this was put to the now five-time USA Ryder Cup star Jordan Spieth he was having none of it and with the Texan declaring such a statistic does not rattle the visiting American’s cage. “We’ve been made ...

European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald played the proper Ryder Cup straight bat, politely side- any questions relating to Sergio Garcia and being in anyway involved in this week’s 44th hosting of the Ryder Cup. We know how fellow Spaniard Jon Rahm went into bat for Garcia, declaring it was ‘stupid’ not be pick someone of Garcia’s Ryder Cup record-setting credentials to be in Donald’s Marco Simone team. More recently, we read stories of Garcia’s supposed bid to ...

USA Ryder Cup Captain Zach Johnson stressed he is unphased that it’s now 30-years since America won a Ryder Cup on European soil. That was back in 1993 when Tom Watson captained the visiting Americans to a two-point victory over a Bernard Gallacher led European side at The Belfry in England. Of course, the USA arrived in Italy earlier today having trounched a hapless European side two years ago at Whistling Straits but that’s now history and Johnson and his Stars and Stripes are in Europe ...

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler has picked this week’s Ryder Cup to go public with a new putting coach – England-born Phil Kenyon. No sooner had Scheffler arrived at this week’s host Marco Simone course and the six-time PGA Tour winner was seen working with Kenyon, and why wouldn’t he given the American’s present lowly 151st ranking on the Tour’s ‘Strokes Gained in Putting’ stats. World #1 Scottie Scheffler is now working with Phil Kenyon on his putting. ...

Fourteen -year old Charlie Woods continues to impress and with his 15-time major-winning father again on the bag as his caddy. The win qualified Charlie for the final of the Notah Begal 111 National Championship after winning a 14-15 age division qualifing event over the weekend in Florida. It’s not the first time Tiger’s been acting as his son’s caddy and on this latest outing the duo combined for Charlie to post an opening one-under 71 and then backed that up with a second and ...