Golf, by TourMiss

For the Emirates Golf Club and host to the 2022 Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic, it was an exercise delving into the past in looking ahead to the future. It’s remarkable that the first golf course to be built on the Arabian Peninsula will at the end of January 2022 celebrate the 34th anniversary of the tournament. The Carl Litten-designed course was built in 1987 and two years later joined the European Tour schedule. Back then, the course was sitting all by itself laid out in the desert far away ...

Scottish Open champ Min Woo Lee is loving a best-ever Christmas gift of an invitation to the 2022 Masters. Lee has officially ended the year as 49th on the World Rankings to secure an automatic Augusta National tee time next April. The 23-year-old Aussie faced an anxious last few weeks before ending the year inside the top-50 of early and the assurance now in the New Year in receiving an envelope postmarked ‘Augusta GA’, and containing an invitation into the 83rd Masters. It was Lee’s stunning ...

* This article first published in January 2021 and updated January, 2024 There’s always that unique joy in playing a golf course you’ve not played before. Normally, it is a golf course you know well or you’ve read about. Also, that delight is magnified if you’ve managed to play well. There is also the joy teeing up at a golf course you know relatively little about but where you also play well and while missing a couple of birdie putts, you do manage a handful of pars. Adding ...

Leona Maguire’s Solheim Cup heroics – in which she won four and a half points from a possible five in a standout performance that enabled Europe to win for only a second time in the United States – along with a very strong “rookie” season on the LPGA Tour has earned her the Professional Player of the Year award from the Irish Golf Writers’ Association. The 27-year-old Co Cavan player became the first Irish player to compete in the Solheim Cup and proved to be the backbone of Catriona ...

Pick a superlative – remarkable, incredible, or amazing. No matter what word you select the sight of Tiger Woods being in contention for victory in his first event since the events of last February was truly mind-blowing. There were the doubters who questioned whether Woods would be risking too much in teeing-up despite organizers allowing the use of motorized carts. But those who have followed Woods career closely know you can never doubt anything Woods does inside the competition ropes. Who would ...

…….. Fatiha Betscher  Pick a superlative – remarkable, incredible, or amazing. No matter what word you select the sight of Tiger Woods being in contention for victory in his first event since the events of last February was truly mind-blowing. There were the doubters who questioned whether Woods would be risking too much in teeing-up despite organizers allowing the use of motorized carts. But those who have followed Woods’s career closely know you can never doubt anything Woods ...

…. by Fatiha Betscher  Unheralded Jin Zhang hoped to make the cut but ended the week an Open Champion after a closing 71 (-1) saw him clinch the 27th Volvo China Open at Genzon Golf Club in Shenzhen. The 26-year-old China Tour pro held his nerve to clinch the biggest win of his career by one shot, despite a gritty but ultimately unsuccessful final day charge from 2016 winner Haotong Li. Needing a birdie on the 311-yard 18th to win, Zhang confidently drove the green and left himself with ...