Golf, by TourMiss

One of the delights in driving up to the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, and home each year to the Arnold Palmer Invitational in surburban Orlando is there are no security gates, no security guard box and now even a simple electronically-operated boom gate. This is so vastly different to the scenario across America where, and even at some public courses, unless you have prior permission or a suitable pass, you just cannot get past the front gates. Of course, in this dangerous world that’s how sometimes ...

Shane Lowry will not take his near-winning Honda Classic form into this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational and he disclosed he also will bypass for a second year not teeing up in Texas in the week prior to next month’s Masters. Not for a moment is Lowry throwing the toys out of his tournament’s pram following last Sunday’s bitter second-place finish. No, Lowry’s simply sticking to the plans he had in place before teeing up last week at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens. Lowry has ...

Shane Lowry was joking when he hopes he does not come under the watchful eye of a long-time good friend and now DP World Tour referee Michael Hoey. Hoey, 43, has won eight times in his pro career including five wins on the DP World Tour but is hanging up his clubs for a Golf Rules book. The Belfast golfer competed in 308 events capped with his two-shot victory over Rory McIlroy at the 2011 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and won Euro 588,000 of his near Euro 4m in prize money. “I’ve known  ...

Scotland’s Russell Knox has welcomed the start of the ‘Florida Swing’ in boosting his bid to earn a long-overdue Masters return invitation. Knox tees up in this week’s Honda Classic and the first of four events the Scot is currently exempt on his home ‘Swing’. His return to Florida corresponds with an improvement in Knox’s world ranking and back to 230th in the world having corrected a recent Rankings slide in picking up 32 places in his last two events. And Knox has done so in ...

Shane Lowry wants it known he has no future ties with Saudi Golf and dispelled hurtful rumors he’s been offered any contract to be involved in a proposed Premier Golf League (SGL). Lowry took the highly unusual step of contacting www.golfbytourmiss.com first expressing his allegiance to the DP World and PGA Tour and then ruling out unsettling talk of being linked to controversial SGL. “I have never really said anything about it (SGL) because no one has ever asked me but the way I see it, ...

…… by Fatiha Betscher Four-time major-winning Brooks Koepka has singled out double major-winning Zack Johnson for praise ahead of Johnson to be named 2023 USA Ryder Cup captain on Monday. Johnson, who turns 46 tomorrow (February 24th), will take over from good friend Steve Stricker as the USA team captain as he not only seeks to defend the Ryder Cup but also wins on European soil for the first occasion since 1993 at The Belfry. Johnson’s appointment is not unexpected but can also be ...

The USA Ryder Cup selection process has just gotten younger with Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas added to the team selection committee. Spieth and Thomas, who boast just six Ryder Cups between the duo, have not yet to act as a vice-captain yet the PGA of America have seen fit to add them to the committee headed by PGA of America President, Jim Richerson and also includes Vice-President John Lindert and CEO Seth Waugh. And it seems Thomas’ appointment comes out of the blue for the 28-year-old. “I ...