Golf, by TourMiss

The late 1890s was a great time for the birth of golf on the Scotland island of Arran. Arran remarkably boasts six golf courses founded within 11 years of each other, and up to the dawn of the 20th century. They include – Lamlash (1889), the 9-hole Corrie (1892), Whiting Bay (1895), Shiskine (1896), Brodick (1897) and the 9-hole Machrie Bay (1900). Six years later in 1906 the six clubs got together to form the Arran Golfers Association. Our first introduction to golf in Arran was visiting The ...

Russell Knox has his own agenda this week, looking to secure one of the five leading spots up-for-grabs at Thursday’s starting 2023 PGA Tour Final Qualifier being staged on two courses close to his Ponte Vedra home in Florida. Around 150 miles north in suburban Orlando, Tiger Woods will team with son Charlie in the annual PNC Championship on the host Ritz Carlton course. It will be Woods second PGA Tour sanctioned appearance since last fortnight’s Hero World Challenge, and where Woods ...

Scot David Drysdale has shaken off a niggling neck injury, admitting he’s now proud and also excited ahead of confirmation of retaining his Asian Tour card at this week’s season-ending PIF Saudi Open in Riyadh. Drysdale, 48, tees-up lying a comfortable 43rd on the money list and with the leading 65 season money-earners exempt for their 2024 Tour card at the close of play this Sunday on the host Riyadh Club course in the Saudi capital. A recurring neck injury forced the golfer affectionately ...

A first visit to the isle of Arran. Yes, after many visits to Kintyre and the Outer Herbrides we are heading to Arran, an island off the west coast of Scotland. It is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde and the seventh-largest Scottish island, at 432 square kilometres (167 sq mi) and located just 90-minutes by ferry from the mainland at Ardrossan to Brodick. Though culturally and physically similar to the Hebrides, it is separated from them by the Kintyre peninsula and where we were headed after ...

Gassin is perched high in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in southeastern France. It is located just four kilometres inland and close to the holiday destination of Saint Tropez. The original building was erected in the 11th century and with this current Notre-Dame de la Consolation constructed in 1558. The Chapel hosts events throughout the year: concert, Saint-Laurent mass or nativity scene. Trust you enjoyed these photographs from our visit (October, 2022) to the ...

If Russell Knox needs any reminder of his golfing talent ahead of this week’s PGA Tour Final Qualifier, he has only to open the door of his affectionately named ‘The Knox Golf Room’. The room is a small extension to his Ponte Vedra abode where he stores everything golf related … bags, photographs, posters, tournament flags, clubs, gloves, caps, clothing, balls, shoes, commemorative glasses, everything. Anytime Knox and his wife, Andrea along with their beloved Cavapoo Rusty, and now aged ...

One of the most well known, and also somewhat amusing events in the recent history of the Western Isles was the wreck of the SS Politician on the 5th February 1941. It was the story used by Compton Mackenzie for his book Whisky Galore, and later for the Ealing Studio in turning the story in a hit-winning comedy by the same name. The SS Politician was an 8000-tonne cargo ship which had left Liverpool laden with amongst other things 260,000 bottles of whisky, bound for Kingston in Jamaica and New Orleans. ...