Golf, by TourMiss

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 ...

Rory McIlroy reckons major changes proposed for the hosting of PGA Tour tournaments will make for a more ‘compelling product’. In a continuing shake-up of the PGA Tour, and again clearly in a reaction to the impact of LIV Golf, the PGA Tour has announced the following to be in play from the start of the 2023/24 wraparound season. The PGA Tour board, and with McIlroy a member, annoucned they have ratified a number of significant changes to next season’s  schedule, including reduced ...

Scot Russell Knox has elected not to contest this week’s $US 20m Arnold Palmer Invitational and instead is taking the week off to give himself a better chance of banking next week’s $US 25m Players Championship title. Knox, 37, is staring at four missed cuts in succession and should not play all four rounds of Arnie’s event, following a disappointing run over his  last three events in sitting out the weekend rounds in the Phoenix Open, the Genesis Invitational and last week’s Honda Classic. This ...

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic hardly worked-up a sweat breezing into the quarter-finals of the Dubai Tennis Championship with an effortless straight two sets win over Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor. After being seriously tested in Tuesday’s opening match, Djokovic was near his best, crushing the World No. 39 ranked Griekspoor 6-2, 6-and much to the delight of a packed open-air stadium located in the heart of the Irish Village in Dubai. Djokovic, wearing the same green-and-yellow coloured attire as ...

… Reporting from Dubai Tennis Centre, Dubai  Record-setting World No. 1 Novak Djokovic had to go into extra gear to defeat Czech Tomas Macac in a three-set thriller and qualifier for the last eight at the Dubai Duty Free Championship. Djokovic arrived in Dubai following his 10th Australian Open triumph and earlier this week set both a new men’s and women’s record reign of 387 weeks atop of the world rankings. However he clearly was not expecting the World No. 130 ranked Machac to take ...

I was reading an article recently about the legacy Arnold Palmer left in terms of an autograph. Since turning pro in 1954, Palmer’s signature and his autograph were the same, and it remained like this all his life. Palmer’s autograph was like a benchmark for all autographs, so much so, he used to say that if you’re going to give a fan an autograph, make sure they can read your signature. There are also many times, as former PGA Tour star Peter Jacobsen will attest, that Palmer used ...

Shane Lowry has moved back among the top-20 on the World Rankings for a first occasion in nearly six-months but it’s little comfort after a second straight Honda Classic disappointment. Lowry is the new World No. 19 following his share of fifth place in Sunday’s concluding PGA Tour at Palm Beach Gardens in Florida. The Offaly golfer was desperate to make amends a year after being ‘robbed’ of success in the 2022 event but an opening hole bogey to kick-start Sunday’s round heralded what was ...