Golf, by TourMiss

… Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia At 52-years of age, the chances of competing regularly on the PGA Tour are slim even if are a former multiple major champion. In Phil Mickelson’s case he’s won 45 times since a first win as a then amateur in capturing the 1991 Phoenix Open to sealing victory in the 2021 PGA Championship, and in what was a sixth major championship of his career, to become also the oldest winner of a men’s major. However, if they were handing out a major to the ...

….. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Four-time major winning Brooks Koepka returns to competition for a first time in 2023 this week revealing how his wife of some seven months, Jena was keen to kick him out of their matrimonial home in Florida and back to work. The couple were married last June in a lavish ceremony on the Caribbean island of Turks and Caicos. Koepka, 32, then celebrated his marriage four months later capturing a 16th pro career victory here at the Royal Green course in winning ...

….  Royal Green GC, Saudi Arabia Double Masters winning Bubba Watson has a particular point to pick with PGA Tour Commissioner, Jay Monahan. It’s nothing to do with the likes of Watson and his fellow LIV Golfers being banned from competing on the PGA Tour. Yes, it does focus on one event just prior to Christmas that is sanctioned by the PGA Tour and that is the unique PNC Championship at the Ritz Carlton course in suburban Orlando. Watson, 44,  has revealed ahead of this week’s fifth ...

…. Emirates Club, Dubai Past Masters winner Patrick Reed has been cleared on any rules breach or indiscretion after an incident at his penultimate hole on day three of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic. Reed is not the first golfer in the 34-year history of the event to come unstuck in ‘taking on’ the short, dog-leg right par-4 17th hole but finding his golf ball up a palm tree. But that’s what happened with the American walked to the spot and seeing what he thought was his ball. And ...

…. Emirates GC, Dubai  World No. 1 Rory McIlroy will take a three-shot lead into the final round of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic and seek to achieve a feat to have illuded him in 15-years, and that it is to win the first event of a New Year. Despite thinning his second shot into the water guarding the final green, McIlroy will head a first Monday finish in the Rolex Series event leading by three shots at 15-under-par. For 17 holes, McIlroy was at his best birdieing the opening four holes, ...

….. Emirates Golf Club, Dubai I sit here in the front row of the Media Centre overlooking the ninth and 18th greens at the 2023 Hero Dubai Desert Classic and it’s just not the same. The stunning Majlis host course remains a picture postcard setting but it’s outside the front gates that has changed as the  Dubai, and in a gross understatement, is not the same as when I first attended the European Tour event in 1993. Thirty-years ago the Dubai Golf Club was still then well on the ...

…. Emirates GC, Dubai  Patrick Reed may consider turning left-handed after he borrowed Robert MacIntyre’s putter to hole a lengthy putt just minutes after the Texan’s second round at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic in Dubai. Reed struggled with the putter as reflectred in a score of 70, picking-up three birdies in a five-hole stretch from his eighth to 13th holes ahead of a 15th hole bogey in a score of 70 for his eight-under tally on the Emirates course. Then as the Texan made his way ...