Golf, by TourMiss

…. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Sergio Garcia may not be in the European Tour good books but the leading Ryder Cup points scorer says he’s determined to be in a position that Luke Donald cannot head to Rome without him. It came to notice ahead of last week’s Hero Dubai Desert Classic when European Tour CEO Keith Pelley revealed that Garcia and any other European who has been afforded honorary life membership is eligible to be selected to represent Europe. That includes LIV stars Graeme ...

…. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Graeme McDowell has every reason to be excited ahead of the start of celebrating a 21st pro season along the stunning Red Sea shoreline in Saudi Arabia. McDowell, 43, joins 11 other major champions in the strongest field this new year competing in the $5m PIF Saudi International, again being hosted on the Royal Greens course. The event is special for McDowell having won the then European Tour event in 2020, and for this year it is the second hosting under the ...

.… Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Open Champion Cam Smith says it’s like they’ve just seen a ghost as that’s been the reaction when he’s had the famed Claret Jug in his possession. Smith celebrated the 150th staging of golf’ oldest major last July in also becoming the first Australian ‘Champion Golfer of the Year’  in some 30-years, and after Greg Norman in 1993, to be handed Claret Jug following his one-stroke victory over the Old Course at the Home ...

….. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Double Augusta winning Bubba Watson believes Rory McIlroy will win the Masters and in doing so join the most exclusive club in all of golf. GolfByTourMiss spoke exclusively with Watson ahead of this week’s fifth anniversary hosting of the now Asian Tour sanctioned Saudi International at the Royal Greens Club in Saudi Arabia. Watson, now aged 44, was fitted with the first Augusta National green members jacked in 2012 and then a second two years later ...

… Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia At 52-years of age, the chances of competing regularly on the PGA Tour are slim even if are a former multiple major champion. In Phil Mickelson’s case he’s won 45 times since a first win as a then amateur in capturing the 1991 Phoenix Open to sealing victory in the 2021 PGA Championship, and in what was a sixth major championship of his career, to become also the oldest winner of a men’s major. However, if they were handing out a major to the ...

….. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Four-time major winning Brooks Koepka returns to competition for a first time in 2023 this week revealing how his wife of some seven months, Jena was keen to kick him out of their matrimonial home in Florida and back to work. The couple were married last June in a lavish ceremony on the Caribbean island of Turks and Caicos. Koepka, 32, then celebrated his marriage four months later capturing a 16th pro career victory here at the Royal Green course in winning ...

….  Royal Green GC, Saudi Arabia Double Masters winning Bubba Watson has a particular point to pick with PGA Tour Commissioner, Jay Monahan. It’s nothing to do with the likes of Watson and his fellow LIV Golfers being banned from competing on the PGA Tour. Yes, it does focus on one event just prior to Christmas that is sanctioned by the PGA Tour and that is the unique PNC Championship at the Ritz Carlton course in suburban Orlando. Watson, 44,  has revealed ahead of this week’s fifth ...