Golf, by TourMiss

A jet-lagged Scott Jamieson took more delight in stealing Richie Ramsay’s thunder by setting a new course record on the opening day of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Jamieson was out early posting a blemish-free nine-under-par 63 on the Yas Links course and designed by American Kyle Phillips who also laid out Kingsbarns Links in Fife. The Glaswegian’s effort in his 300th Tour event is a shot more than Ramsay’s 62 in the 2012 Emirates Airlines Invitational, a former pro/amateur event held ...

Rory McIlroy admitted he didn’t have his scoring boots on after a frustrating first round of his 15th full season at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on Yas Island. McIlroy signed off for a level par 72 in his first competitive round since his tail-of-the-field finish earlier last month at the Hero World Challenge in The Bahamas. The World’s No. 8’s frustration was no more evident than at the last, the par-5 ninth, where his 3-wood tee shot found rough on the edge of the hole, and right on water’s ...

Colin Montgomerie fears new technology could see this year’s 150th Open Championship be the last to be played on the Old Course at St. Andrews. Monty, and like so fellow tour pros, believes big-hitters like Bryson DeChambeau, and given calm conditions that may prevail at the Home of Golf, could turn the Home of Golf venue into one big birdie feast. This year’s Open Championship will be the first at St. Andrews for DeChambeau and company since 2015 when American Zach Johnson won a Monday play-off ...

David Drysdale’s end-of-season relief in retaining his Tour card was not only spoiled by a rush exit from South Africa but then a nightmare Christmas period for both he and his caddying wife, Vicky in catching Covid. The Drysdale’s are returning to competing at this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and with the £stg 5.9m Rolex Series event being the stage for a first time in 17-years on the Yas Links course, and just opposite the Yas Island F1 circuit. Two months ago, Drysdale missed the ...

It is now 15-years on a Saturday morning in January 2010, a handful of the media were offered the opportunity to meet the Yas Links course designer down by the taken out to the eighth hole of the UEAs newest golf course. The par-3 eighth hole was selected as it was then the only grassed hole and it seemed highly appropiate location for the handful of media to meet-up with renowned Kyle Phillips, the Yas Links course designer who had arrived a few hours earlier on a flight from the U.S., and after ...

…… Fatiha Betscher It will be just a day short of two months since Collin Morikawa became the first American to be crowned European No. 1 when he tees up in this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Morikawa posted a final round 66 to win the season-ending DP World Tour Championship by three shots and in the process captured the Race to Dubai title. It was the third victory in 2021 for the 24-year-old who arrived in Dubai having won the WGC – Workday Championship and also the ...

After his best New Year start in four years, Russell Knox is determined to ‘roll the snowball’ all the way to a hopeful best season in this his 15th year in the pro ranks. Knox produced four rounds in the 60s, including a Hawaiian last day 65 to share to seventh place in the Sony Open on the island of Oahu. It was the Scot’s best finish in the event that he’s played at the start of a New Year for the past four years and helped him pocket £stg 167,000 while he was also rewarded with a jump ...