Golf, by TourMiss

Tiger Woods looks now almost certain to tee up in July’s return of the JP McManus Pro-Am at Adare Manor. Woods spoke Sunday following the remarkable achievement of playing all four rounds of the 86th Masters that he intends to travel to Scotland in July for the 150th Open Championship, and this despite suggesting he may skip next month’s PGA Championship at Southern Hills. Woods won two of his three Opens at St. Andrews, including a first in 2000 when he produced four rounds in the 60s, was ...

  Tiger Woods is a winner! No, Woods didn’t win the 2022 Masters nor did he contend, but the sight of Woods some 14 months after his near fatal car crash walking all four days at golf’s revered ‘Cathedral in the Pines’ was the stuff of champions. Woods had come back from extended lay-offs and most due to back surgery but this week, and from the longest period away from the game of his 26-year-pro career, was totally different. Prior to this past week, it had been 508 says since Woods last ...

There’s no denying Australia is a rich and proud sporting nation and twice in living memory, a global sporting event late on a Sunday in the US has brought the island continent to a Monday morning standstill. The first was in September 1983 when Australia 11 ended an unbroken USA reign of 132-years to capture the seventh and final race of America’s Cup off Rhode Island. The entire Australian nation had been out of bed in the early hours (Australian time) on Monday 26th September to watch ...

Augusta National has advised that prize money for the 2022 Masters is up $1/2m on last year to a new record-setting £15m (Euro 13.8m). As well, the winner of the 86th Masters will take home the largest first prize in Masters history – a cool $2.7m (Euro 2.482m) – and that’s up from $2.07m that Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama pocketed a year ago. Runner-up at Augusta National will be handed $1.61m while the player who finishes third (and on his own) will also drive out the front gates a millionaire ...

As many visitors to GolfByTourMiss may know, one of my favourite golfing destinations is Askernish Golf Club.

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler heads to the closing two rounds with Masters victory history on his side. Scheffler’s best tamed the testing conditions with scores of 69 and 67 to lead by five shots at eight-under-par, and head the field with just 15 players of the 45 that made the cut managing to be under par ahead of the third day’s play. The 25-year-old Schefeller not only stands two rounds away from a maiden major championship but he should plenty of comfort knowing that only six players ...

Seamus Power has Rory McIlroy in playing all four rounds of a maiden Masters at Augusta National. Power put aside an early four-hole sour stretch to savour the real likelihood of making the cut in also a maiden major championship in bright but continuing windy and difficult conditions on the Georgian golfing gem. Power ended his round with a pair of 74s to be sharing 49th place and just a shot inside the projected five-over-par mark, and with the official cut-off mark in the 86th hosting of the ...