Golf, by TourMiss

There was no separating the Emerald Isle duo Graeme McDowell and Seamus Power after two rounds of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. McDowell and Power were out together for a first time in formal competition on day one and after two days and 36 holes in each other’s company, the pair head to the weekend round locked at five-under par. ‘G Mac’ snatached six birdies in a second day four-under par 67 to move to five-under par in the Euro 5.5m on the exposed clifftop Port Royal course in Southampton. Power, ...

  Seamus Power and countryman Graeme McDowell probably thought they were back home competing on the wind-lashed west coast of Ireland rather than the sun-splashed holiday island of Bermuda.   The Butterfield Bermuda Championship exposed clifftop Port Port course was near defenceless in the warm but extremely windy conditions on day one in the third hosting of the PGA Tour event.   Power returned from a fortnight’s competition break battling the conditions superbly to sign for a four-under par ...

Scotland’s Russell Knox and new caddy Will Wilcox created a unique slice of PGA Tour history in teaming at this week’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship. In July 2013, the Alabama-born Wilcox became the fourth player on the secondary Web.com Tour to shoot a 59 and then 12 days later Knox became the fifth in holing a seven-footer for birdie also for 59 on day two of the 2013 Boise Open. Knox and Wilcox, and both aged 35, have since become good friends and with Knox arranging for the now retired ...

Legendary golf coach Pete Cowen has remarkably gone public in a UAE newspaper addressing rumours he has been sacked by Rory McIlroy. The normally quietly-spoken Cowen says he’s taken the very unusual step of writing for the Dubai-based Gulf News after revealing he is being hounded by journalists in the UK asking where ‘he stands’ with his relationship with McIlroy and this simply after not being spotted last week in Las Vegas when McIlroy won for a second time this season In the ...

Dane Jeff Winther and his wife spent an anxious 45-mins locked in their hotel bathroom before managing to get to the course and capture a maiden Tour win at the Mallorca Open. Winther, 33, and his wife, Amelie found themselves locked-in the bathroom of their hotel, without their mobile phones, leaving their two young children alone in the main room of their hotel as the couple fought to pry open the bathroom door.  Fortunately time was on his side with hotel staff later breaking in to allow the ...

Hideki Matsuyama added to a unique PGA Tour statistic with his convincing five shot success at the ZoZo Championship in his native Japan. Matsuyama was never really challenged, taking the lead on day two and rounding off his seventh PGA Tour success in brilliant manner by eagling the closing hole on the host Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club layout. The 72nd hole eagle, and after eagling the par-5 sixth hole, handed Matsuyama a closing five-under par to win by five shots at 15-under par. The ...

Scotland’s Connor Syme is predicting tougher course conditions after a scoring spree on the opening day of the Mallorca Open. Syme, 31, was proud to post a bogey-three four-under par 66 in bright but windy conditions on the host Santa Ponsa course located on the somewhat exposed south-western tip of the holiday island. Dane Jeff Winther muscled his way to an eight-under par 62 that included eight birdies, and two lots of four birdies in succession on each nine. Swede Niklas Lemke and South ...