Golf, by TourMiss

It was 5pm US east coast time on 31st December, 2023 and just seven hours ahead of last June’s promised deadline for full details of a landmark commercial deal that would end the war in men’s pro golf biggest controversy. And with just seven hours to midnight Commissioner Jay Monahan thought it proper to update the Tour members with a memo. Monahan’s memo assured the rank-and-file there has been “meaningful progress” with the Strategic Sports Group, a consortium of ...

The quintessential French town Bourg-en-Bresse lies in the eastern region of the country, north-east of Lyon and about a 100 kilometres west of Geneva in neighbouring Switzerland. The town is known worldwide not for its golf but its poultry – Poulet de Bresse or Chicken of Bresse. France has long enjoyed a strong association with the rooster.  It’s one of the national emblems of France, the Coq Gaulois (the Gallic Rooster) decorated French flags during the Revolution. It is also the ...

Spectacular, stunning, dramatic, breath-taking and any other ‘take your breath away’ adjective is how you can only describe sensational D’Etretat Golf Club in the Normandy region of northern France. This 18-hole layout is laid out on relatively flat land but some 50-metres high above chalk-coloured cliffs, overlooking the Bay of Etretat and the English Channel. It’s around a 3-hour drive north-west of Paris and some two-hours driving east along the same coastline as the ...

If you’re not Scottish born but consider yourself a serious golfer, then you’ve no doubt visited the Home of Golf nation. And if you’ve played many of the Scottish golfing gems then you probably are keen to savour some other of the not so well-known Scottish golf courses. So, with this thought in mind can I recommend extending your next Scottish golfing adventure by heading to the top of the Scottish mainland, and then take the short 90-minute ferry trip to the stunning Orkney Islands. The ...

Christmas/New Year greetings from Sainte Maxime  (pronounced ‘Maksim’), located here on the Mediterranean Sea in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in Southeastern France. We’re located in the French Riviera (Côte d’Azur), 90 km (56 mi) south-west from Nice and 130 km (81 mi) north-east from Marseille, and about a 20/30 minute drive from Saint Tropez or about 15-minutes in catching the ferry the runs between both towns. Sainte Maxime boasts  a population of ...

It was a great way to celebrate one’s birthday – visiting the Lochranza Distillery & Visitor Centre on the Isle of Arran. The centre, and open 7 days a week, is owned by the award winning Isle of Arran Distillers Ltd, is situated in the beautiful village of Lochranza at the north end of the Isle of Arran. We had arrived on Arran a few days earlier and enjoyed playing golf at Whiting Bay and Shiskine golf clubs, so what a wonderful offical last stop before boading the ferry and returning ...

The annual Masters already has the smallest field of the four majors and could be heading for its lowest number of player invitations in nearly 40-years at next April’s 90th anniversary hosting. Sixty-six players are already exempt while 11 more on December 31st will receive an mail, postmarked ‘Augusta, GA’ in being inside the top-50 of the World Rankings. That would bring the total to 77 invitations and a lowest field since 1985 when also 77 teed-up, and we saw Germany’s ...