Golf, by TourMiss

  ​It’s an utter disgrace as I posted on social media that the BBC has now formally snubbed 2022 US Open champion, Matthew Fitzpatrick as a nomination for their ill-named ‘Sports Personality of the Year’ award. Fitzpatrick, 28, brilliantly became the first British golfer since Danny Willett won the 2016 Masters, to triumph at the game’s highest level following his spectacular fairway bunker shot down the final hole at Brookline. It was a month ago that Fitzpatrick had ...

Golfing legend Annika Sorenstam has added another chapter to her illustrious career in accepting an invitation to become a first woman vice-president of the Association of Golf Writers (AGW). Across her career, the Swede has won 10 majors and over 90 professional tournaments around the world in addition to representing Europe in eight Solheim Cups. The Association has previously recognised Annika’s playing feats by awarding her AGW Golfer of the Year honours both in 2003 and 2005.  It was also ...

Scot Craig Howie has given his new season a good start with the assurance of two pays cheques from as many events to be lying top-20 at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. The Peebles golfer battled the hot but very windy conditions posting a one-under par 71 to move to three-under on the Mont Choisy course on the north-eastern corner of Mauritius. He said: “I’m exhausted after that round.  It was really warm out there and with the wind making it really tough and very difficult. “If you ...

  World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has thrown his full backing behind news the PGA TOUR and GOLF+, the leading VR golf game in the world, have signed a long-term deal that makes GOLF+ the “Official Virtual Reality Golf Game of the PGA TOUR. The agreement will also see the creation of new PGA TOUR game experiences where GOLF+ players will be able to experience exclusive, interactive content and features tied to real-world PGA TOUR tournaments. “This technology has the power to not only bring new ...

Scotland’s Craig Howie is very conscious of freezing conditions back home in warming to shoot a 70 on the opening day of the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. Howie grabbed three birdies and heads to day two of the co-sanctioned event trailing eight shots behind Finland’s Sami Valimaki on the Mont Choisy course just 13 miles to the north of the capital, Port Louis. Valimaki, 24, set a new course record in the mid-80s degree Fahrenheit weather, albeit for a short mid-round rain squall, muscling ...

Finland’s Sami Valimaki deposited a sizzling new course record 10-under-par 62 to the lead the field by two shots on the opening day of the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. The effort handed Valimaki a two-shot two lead on the Mont Choisy course located some 15 miles to the north of the capital, Port Louis. It’s the first time the course is being used for a first time in the now six-year history of the event. The world No. 323 ranked Fin capped his round when he birdied four holes in succession ...

There may be the chance over the Christmas Festive season that if you drop by the newly-opened Old Bonded Warehouse Pub at Bury Quay in Tullamore you may bump into a co-owner in Shane Lowry. We learned last month Lowry had teamed with close friend and pub tycoon Alan Clancy in delving into the pub and restaurant business in his native Offaly. The Open Champion got involved in this first business adventure with the purchase of the pub about a year ago but it has been Clancy who was instrumental in ...