Golf, by TourMiss

Thirty-seven years on and Javier Ballesteros brilliantly repeated his father Seve’s effort with a birdie at the final hole of the Old Course at St. Andrews. Javier, 31, had not been born when his father drained a 15-foot left-to-right birdie putt to win the 1984 Open Championship at the Home of Golf and Seve’s fourth of five major victories in his career. And Javier, in his first competitive round at the Home of Golf, duplicated his much-missed late father’s effort landing a wedge shot to just ...

Oban Celtic’s Bob MacIntyre tees-up in this week’s 20th Alfred Dunhill Links Championship sporting a bunch of bruises from his side’s 8-nil thumping last Saturday of Aberdour. As the best golfers in Europe were struggling last Saturday along the shores of Lake Michigan, MacIntyre was loving being in the deep end of the Mowi Senior C League at Silversands. And while Rory McIlroy missed-out in contesting the 2015 Open at St. Andrews after injuring his leg in a friendly football match, MacIntrye ...

Visiting American Billy Horschel, and while delighted for his victorious Ryder Cup team-mates, revealed a recent conversation with Rory McIlroy when the duo agreed it would be good to rewind the clock to their pre-professional ‘rambunctious’ ways, The conversation Horschel spoke of with McIlroy was during the recent PGA Tour’s BMW Championship as they discussed how they carried themselves in being on opposing teams at the 2007 Walker Cup at Royal County Down compared to the events that now ...

Shane Lowry has expressed his disgust at what he described as the ‘dog’s’ abuse directed by beer-fuelled U.S. fans at his wife and father at last week’s Ryder Cup. The proud Irishman is highly-critical of a minority of fans in singling out his wife, Wendy and father, Brendan as they walked the Whistling Straits course supporting Lowry. Lowry, and making his rookie European Team debut, revealed he had warned both to expect comments and not to antagonise anyone by answering back ...

Danny Willett admitted he ‘felt’ for Padraig Harrington as the Masters champion ‘uncomfortably’ sat through TV coverage of last week’s Ryder Cup. Willett knows only too well the hurt of being on a losing European Ryder Cup side in being a member of the 2016 team that also lost on American soil three years ago at Hazeltine. As well, Willett played in three of five matches under Darren Clarke’s leadership and was on the receiving end of three losses. “I would have to think Padraig is ...

Ryder Cup captaincy selection committee member David Howell insists Europe will not be reaching for any panic button in the wake of a dominating American Ryder Cup team victory. Howell, who is also chair of the Players Advisory Committee, was on the committee that in January 2019 voted Padraig Harrington to lead Europe and will also be involved in the process later this year to choose a successor. ‘Howeller’, as he is more affectionately known, was present at Whistling Straits and joined the ...

If Shane Lowry needed any additional Ryder Cup motivation this week it would be the sight of the Irish flag proudly flying in the centre of a three-flag feature formation at Whistling Straits. Usually, the sight of the Ireland flag anywhere overseas is among a row of other countries’ flags but not when you arrive at the Wisconsin venue that plays host this week to the Ryder Cup as the Irish flag takes centre stage sandwiched between the Stars and Stripes and the Wisconsin State flag (see photograph) ...