Golf, by TourMiss

Bob MacIntyre’s appearance this week at the Magical Kenya Open is being labelled by local organisers a ‘Godsend’ though the Scot may think otherwise. MacIntyre has travelled to Kenya very much looking for magic, as the tournament title boasts, as he strives to return to next month’s Masters for a third year running. The Oban lefties slide down the World Rankings contiunes, dropping a further place to be now ranked World No. 94, and needing to be inside the top-50 on the rankings, as at ...

  Here’s a super golfing statistic for us weekend golfers! Next time you’re out competing in a social with your friends and you happen to put a ball in the water, you may care to remind them if they know have many balls have found their way into water over the last 20-years at the 17th hole of the TPC Sawgrass course, and home this week to the Players Championship. Since 2003, 925 balls have been lost to the water at the island-like 17th green during the Players at Ponte Vedra in ...

It’s always been the scenario when Jack speaks, the golf world sits up to take notice. I mentioned this last week on this website’s coverage of the Honda Classic that Nicklaus will always visit the tournament media centre for a chat with the media, and with no goal posts set in place as to what is discussed. Well, we know Nicklaus has been speaking to fellow Masters champion Nick Faldo, and with the ‘it’s always about me’ Faldo reinventing himself as a podcast host after the teary-eyed ...

….. Dubai Tennis Centre It must be a first in tennis, and maybe a first in sport. If so, the sight of tennis World No. 1 Novak Djokovic complaining to the match referee that there was too much bar-b-que smoke lingering over of the Dubai Tennis Championship centre court has to be a first. Firstly, the centre for world tennis in Dubai is located within the famed Irish Village and close to the ‘older’ part of Dubai. The Irish Village is noted for it’s restaurants and Irish-theme ...

Shane Lowry labelled it a career ‘milestone’ in ending a miserable run of outs to be assured of contesting all four rounds for a first time in six showings at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando. Lowry battled the bright but inceasingly windy conditions, grabbing an eagle and two birdies in a round of a two-under 70 to move well inside the top-25 at two-under in the up-graded $US 20m event at the Bay Hill club. The Offaly golfer was tied with 2018 champ Rory McIlroy, who bounced back from ...

.…. Dubai Tennis Centre World No. 1 Novak Jjokovic has been bundled out, losing his Dubai Duty Free semi-final showdown in straight sets against big-hitting World No.7 Daniil Medvedev. The Russian-born Medvedev handed Djokovic a comprehensive 6-4, 6-4 defeat to set-up a Saturday final showdown against defending Dubai champ and compatriot Audrey Rublev. Medvedev and Rublev being the current World No. 6 and 7 in the world. Medvedev, 27, took it right to his eight years older Serbian rival, breaking ...

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic continues to be unstoppable powering into the final four at the Dubai Duty Free Championships. For a second night running the Serbian was in a class of his own, brushing aside gutsy 25-year-old Monaco-based Polish opponent Hubert Hurkacz with scores of 6-3 and 7-5. The six-and-half-foot tall Hurkacz, and one of the best servers in the men’s game, won the very first point of the match with a screaming ace but was soon cut down to size some 30 minutes later in losing ...