Golf, by TourMiss

The season-ending DP World Tour event has yet to tee-up but it’s been three days of outside the ropes headlines. The present war of words sadly continues in the men’s professional game and with  Rory McIlroy on Tuesday hurling verbal grenade at the LIV Golf CEO, Greg Norman McIlroy presented the only story of day two of official practice declaring Norman ‘needs to step down and exit stage left’ and along with their needs to be ‘an adult in the room’ when the waring parties do ...

The Irish duo of Gary Hurley and John Murphy will be returning home and immediately packing their bags for South Africa next week after superbly securing full 2023 DP World Tour membership following six torturous rounds at the Infinitum resort at Tarragona, Spain. West Waterford’s Hurley finished in 13th place among the leading 25 players who have earned full Tour membership, posting a 19-under-par tally while Kinsale’s Murphy mounted a back nine-hole charge posting a 65 and securing ...

Double Tour winning Ewen Ferguson admits he’s ‘chilled’ at thoughts in making it a season-ending triple winning treat at DP World Tour Championship (DPWTC) final on the Earth course at Jumeirah Estates in Dubai. Ferguson, 26, is among four Tour members to have won twice this year with Scot capturing the CB Qatar Masters and the ISPA Handa World Invitational. Among those double champs this year is Ryan Fox, currently lying No. 2 on the Race to Dubai, and after losing by a shot last week in South ...

…. Jumierah Estates, Dubai  ​​Super Spaniard Jon Rahm has described as ‘laughable’ the new ranking system in place at the Official World Golf Rankings. Last year’s US Open champ had just been awarded Honorary Membership of the DP World Tour in recognition of his achievement last June but Rahm went from smiles and signs of genuine warmth in receiving the award from European Tour CEO Keith Pelley, to straight-faced and far from thrilled in describing the re-worked ranking ...

… Jumeirah Estates, Dubai  With the smoke still settling from Rory McIlroy’s verbal grenade hurled in the direction of LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman, Shane Lowry emerged positive of his chances at this week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship. Lowry​, who followed Rory McIlroy into the DPWTC press room, ​is currently eighth of the Race to Dubai money-list and having dropped a place with Tommy Fleetwood jumping nine spots to No. 4 following last week’s successful defence of the ...

  … Jumeirah Estates, Dubai “Norman must go …exit stage right! … We need an adult in the room”. The words of World No. 1 Rory McIlroy who has issued the bluntest of blunt ultimatums in the war of words that continues to discolour men’s professional golf The stalemate in the professional game goes unchecked and with now combative LI CEO Greg Norman being mooted that he will be replaced however LIV Golf has denied this and, if correct, will only to seemingly ...

  … Jumeirah Estates, Dubai Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry got their first look on Monday at a slightly less tree-lined Earth host course, host venue for this week’s DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. The Irish duo were the only players out early on a very hot Dubai morning after jetting-in the day prior from their respective Bears Club estate residences in Florida ahead of playing just nine holes and heading for pre-noon lunch in the comfort of the air-conditioned clubhouse. McIlroy ...