Golf, by TourMiss

Rory McIlroy, and after seven long years since his last major championship triumph, ignited hopes of glory at the game’s highest level with a gutsy five-under par 65 on the opening of the PGA Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma. McIlroy was in the Southern Hills clubhouse leading by one shot from the American pair of Will Zalatoris and Tom Hoge, who each posted 66s in increasingly windy conditions on the Southern Hills course McIlroy’s score was his lowest PGA Championship opener since a first ...

Top-ranked Scot was clearly happy to be off what he described as a ‘brutal’ course with a level par 70 as the winds picked-up on the opening day of the PGA Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma. MacIntyre was out in the first group just after 7am local time, and off the 10th tee in warm but early overcast sky on the Southern Hills course. It turned into two different nines for the Oban lefty, being out in two-under but coming home in two-over, and ending his round just after noon in bright sunshine ...

Dave Cannon was asked to look after the cameras belonging to a family friend at a rugby match between Midland Counties and the famed New Zealand All Blacks in Leicester, England, some 44 years ago. What a fortunate night that would turn out to be for golf, and for sports photojournalism as a whole. Dave decided to shoot a few frames himself from the corner of the field, shooting about a roll and a half of film, or 50 frames. When one of his pictures ended up atop a story in the Sunday Express, it ...

Shane Lowry has always been one of more affable top-ranked golfers to work with.  He’s approachable,  he’s honest, he gives you a good line, he wears his heart on his shirt sleeve and he’ll tell you sometimes when to ‘go take a long walk on a short pier’ if he’s not happy with you for something you may have written. I guess that’s how it should be at what we call the cutting edge of golf reporting. Take Lowry’s pre-PGA Championship presser early Wednesday ...

Southern Hills CC is hosting the PGA Championship for a record fifth time.  No other venue has hosted more than three PGA Championships.  In addition, this club has also hosted three U.S. Opens. The only other clubs to host eight or more PGA Championships and U.S. Opens combined are Oakmont CC (3 PGA, 9 U.S.), Oakland Hills (3 PGA, 6 U.S.) and Baltusrol GC (2 PGA, 7 U.S.). Each of the last six players to win a major at Southern Hills is a multiple-major winner (Dave Stockton-1970, Hubert Green-1977, ...

This week may be the PGA Championship but it’s customary also each year for the PGA of America to extend an invitation to the rival captains to visit the media centre for an update on the Ryder Cup. It’s only been a few months since the PGA of America announced Zach Johnson as their defending USA Team captain while it was later than normal, indeed on March 15th, the European Tour announced Henrik Stenson as the first Swedish-born player to lead a European Team. Stenon’s appointment ...

It speaks well that Shane Lowry likens his strong form leading into this week’s PGA Championship as pretty much the same as his form three years ago heading into the 2019 Open Championship. Lowry’s record in the four individual men’s Majors reads impressive with a win at The Open, a second at the US Open, a third last month at The Masters and a share of fourth a year ago at the PGA Championship. The Irishman also has enjoyed three other top-10s at the game’s highest level, and two ...