Golf, by TourMiss

If Rory McIlroy as Chairman of the PGA Tour Players Advisory Council gets his way, and it seems he may have, then greens books and the practice of arm-lock putting will be ‘outlawed’ on golf’s biggest tour. It was reported last week, the 16-PGA Tour player council that McIlroy heads voted two weeks ago to ban the books, which detail slopes and contours on putting surfaces. All it needs now is for the full PGA Tour board to rubber stamp the decision, and that could be with the move to come into ...

This week marks a decade since a then young-looking, freckle-faced, curly haird Rory McIlroy led from start-to-finish to capture the 2011 US Open at the Congressional club in Maryland. McIlroy had brilliantly rebounded from his closing round Masters meltdown to reaffirm to the sports world his enormous talent. Now at age 32, the curls have gone and McIlroy’s happily married and with a young daughter.  So, what was the big difference 10-years for the now multi-millionaire, Florida-based Irishman? “I ...

2⃣0⃣0⃣th anniversary of the birth of legendary Old Tom Morris #OldTom200 👏 🌟Born St. Andrews 16th June, 1821 🌟Four-time @TheOpen @RandA 🏆 🌟Designer ⛳️@carnoustiegolf @AskernishGolf @CrailGolf @Crudenbaygolf @LahinchGolfClub & so many more Happy 2⃣0⃣0⃣th Old Tom 🍾🥂 pic.twitter.com/xJoRbWk6j5 — Fatiha (@TOURMISS) June 15, 2021      

Jon Rahm blames himself and not the PGA Tour for his forced withdrawal from the Memorial and revealing he had delayed undertaking a coronavirus vaccination. Rahm stated he failed to prioritise the importance of the pre-Memorial vaccination and instead got carried away with his golf preparations. As we now know, this decision to delay the vaccination proved extremely costly with Rahm walking from the course on day leading ‘Jack’s Event’ by a dominating six shots. Though no sooner had the Spaniard ...

Here’s a strange twist in the Brooks Koepka/Bryson DeChambeau on-going controversy. What emerged from a ‘rouge’ video clip of a PGA Championship Golf Channel post-round interview with Koepka, is now still a strong topic of conversation nearly a month on. Rewind to Kiawah Island and Koepka clearly was annoyed firstly with the noise DeChambeau was making in walking behind where Koepka was being interview by the Golf Channel, and with Koepka showing his disapproval by rolling his eyes ...

  The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced tee times for the first two rounds of the 2021 U.S. Open Championship, Thursday (June 17) and Friday (June 18), at 7,652-yard, par-71 Torrey Pines Golf Course (South Course), in San Diego, Calif. The U.S. Open is a 72-hole, stroke-play competition. A field of 156 players will play 18 holes of stroke play on June 17 and 18, after which the field will be reduced to the low 60 scores and ties. Those players making the cut will play 18 ...

The European Tour’s newest champion Jonathan Caldwell wasted little time confirming his intention to contest a maiden ASI Scottish Open after pulling off the ‘best shot of my career’ to win the Scandinavian Masters in Sweden. The Belfast golfer landed a stunning 142-yard gap wedge shot from light rough right of the 18th, to near tap-in distance for a closing hole birdie in a final round 64 to win by a shot at 18-under par on the Vaddla course outside of Gothenburg. Caldwell, and who turned ...