Golf, by TourMiss

For those of us on the opposite side of ‘The Pond’ there was an enormous reward for all those who sat-up into the early hours of Monday morning watching TV coverage of the final round of the BMW Championship from the outskirts of Baltimore. The sight of Patrick Cantlay going head-to-head with Bryson DeChambeau was simply riveting and watching the two Americans fight it out for the title not just over 18 holes but then six extra holes meant there was no way you could surely hit the ...

A fourth place in a prestigious event such as the BMW Championship is a fanastic achievement for any golfer. It’s a great result for Rory McIlroy and his second-best finish in his 20 events on the 2020/21 PGA Tour season and good enough to see the Irishman head to this coming week’s Tour Championship now lying 16th on the FedEx Cup standings. That’s up a dozen places at the start of his week and comes on the back of McIlroy’s closing round of 67 on the Caves Valley course to the north-west ...

Henrik Stenson is making European Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington’s selection task seemingly a little easier with a second top-of-the-board finish in successive weeks. Stenson stormed his way first to the clubhouse lead before eventually grabbing a timely third place with an avalanche of birdies in his final round of 63 for an 11-under par tally at the Omega European Masters at Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Stenson, and a veteran of five Ryder Cup’s, was without a top-10 finish this year but ...

No trip home to Ireland is now more important in Shane Lowry’s already illustrious career than the flight that arrives into Dublin Airport tomorrow morning (Monday). Lowry and his family will touch down on Irish soil with Lowry confident of cementing his place, and without the need for a ‘wildcard’ pick,  next Sunday fortnight in Padraig Harrington’s European Ryder Cup team. He had ideally hoped to be headed to Atlanta, Georgia but instead Lowry will be at home and with now all ...

Robert MacIntyre will now take his ‘every man and his dog wants to play the PGA Tour’ determination to this week’s final Korn Ferry Tour event in Indiana in a goal to win full main tour membership. MacIntyre added a second round 72 to his opening 68 to miss the cut by a shot at the Korn Ferry Tour’s season-penultimate Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship in Columbus. The champion Scot had been well-placed post Thursday’s opener but a hat-trick of bogeys from his sixth hole spoilt ...

It didn’t take long for the management at Liberty National to send out a search party for Rory McIlroy’s ‘missing’ 3-wood. McIlroy unwittingly revealed he had tossed his 3-wood into trees off the ninth tee during Monday’s final round of the Northern Trust at the New Jersey course The four-time major winner, and who it has been also revealed is a member of Liberty National, said in tossing his 3-wood he tried to land it on the New Jersey Turnpike but looking at our Google snap of the area ...

Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre is again hitting ‘the numbers’ with his irons as his efforts to secure his PGA Tour card received a confidence-lift with a three-under par 68 on day one of the Korn Ferry event in Columbus, Ohio. MacIntyre grabbed four birdies, and none beter than a 30-footer at his opening hole, and with an only bogey at 17 at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship on the Scarlet course at Ohio State University. MacIntyre headed to lunch delighted to be behind ...