Golf, by TourMiss

… The Old Course, St. Andrews Three-time Open Champion Tiger Woods has raised serious doubts if he will be fully fit to tee-up in this week’s 150th hosting of the Open Championship. Woods was joined by good friend Justin Thomas playing 17 holes of the famed Old Course earlier today, starting from the 2nd tee that is close to the practice range, and the range located at the New and Jubilee courses clubhouse that is used each year for the Dunhill Links Championship. Woods was walking very ...

… The Renaissance Club, East Lothian In an historic first in this 75th anniversary season of the DP World Tour, and England golfer Jordan Smith has won not one but two spanking new electric cars for an ace on day two of the Genesis Scottish Open. Smith, 29, aced the 203-yard, par-3 17th hole at the host Renaissance Club winning himself a Genesis Electrified GV70, a stylish and sophisticated luxury mid-size SUV. The Englishman’s tee shot, in the bright and very windy conditions, hit the ...

.… The Renaissance Club, East Lothian “The game’s best will murder the Old Course!” We hear the same golfing fears each time golf’s oldest major heads to the famed Old Course at St. Andrews. More recently, there was concern a beefed-up Bryson DeChambeau would tear the 150th Open Championship venue apart but then came Covid while DeChambeau has since struggled with injury. We recall Rory McIlroy bringing the Old Course to its knees with an opening 63 in the 2010 Open Championship, an ...

... The Renaissance Club, East Lothian “Defending champion, 150th Open, St. Andrews and Tiger Woods is competing”. Collin Morikawa could not have summed it up better when asked what it means to be heading to next week’s Open Championship at St. Andrews. The winner of the 149th Open Championship is the defending champion heading into the 150th staging of golf’s oldest major on the famed Old Course at the Home of Golf in St. Andrews. Of course, Morikawa is contesting this week’s 40th ...

... The Renaissance Club, East Lothian Justin Thomas arrived in Scotland for this week’s 40th Genesis Scottish Open singing the praise of all things Irish. Thomas had been competing earlier this week in the JP McManus Pro-Am and eventually shared sixth place at Adare Manor. And ‘JT’ clearly thrilled in being on the Emerald Isle for a first time in his career including having an Irish-born caddy for the two rounds, the opportunity to tee-up at Tralee and also savour a pint of Guinness, even ...

My attendance at the second and third hosting of Irish Open as a member of the golfing media was clearly more memorable than my first. I first attended the Irish Open in 1993 when it was staged at Mt. Juliet for the very first time.  It was also the last to be sponsored by Carrolls. Nick Faldo make it three Irish Open win’s in a row having won back-to-back in 1991 and ’92 at Killarney, and therein lies his ‘void of emotion’ win being part the reason in not treasuring the ...

European Tour CEO Keith Pelley has hinted means of a first peace offering of any kind with the ever-growing breakaway LIV Golf rebel tour. Just days out from the second LIV Golf Invitational event, and a first on US soil in Portland, Oregan, Pelley spoke on behalf of the European Tour and also the PGA Tour at a joint trans-Atlantic media conference hosted by Pelley and PGA Tour counterpart, Jay Monahan. Each was asked by myself what would need to take place if either the European Tour and/or the ...