Golf, by TourMiss

Here’s a scenario many would rather not have to contemplate. It is Friday 9th April, 2021 and you’re leading the Masters.  You receive a telephone call from your wife to say the couple’s first born is due over the weekend. What do you do? World No. 2 Jon Rahm knows what he will be doing and insists being present for the birth of his son will come before a Masters green jacket. The double Dubai Duty Free Irish Open winning Spaniard revealed ahead of this week’s WGC – ...

Scotland’s David Drysdale would be the first to agree that two days are never the same in the ancient club-and-ball game of golf. Just four days after missing the halfway cut on the same Karen Country Club course, Drysdale went out to superbly produce an eight birdie haul on the opening day of the Kenya Savannah Classic. The Borders golfer raced to be out in just 29 shots thanks to six birdies and home in 36 for his super effort that has him lying just a shot off the lead in Nairobi. Four ...

It could be one of the more timely decisions in golf with Rory McIlroy to ‘officially’ begin working full-time with legendary English swing coach Pete Cowen as he looks to rediscover his Major winning form heading to the Masters. The Masters is just 16 days away while it’s been just over 500-days since McIlroy last won. It was friend, colleague and fellow AGW member Jamie Corrigan who set tongues wagging that McIlroy is now working with Cowen in an article appearing in the London ...

Connor Syme will look for an even shorter route teeing-up in tomorrow’s (TUES) inaugural Kenya Savannah Classic in Nairobi. Syme secured an equal Tour best finish of third in Sunday’s concluding Magical Kenyan Open and now after just a day’s break it will be back out on the same Karen Country Club course. This inaugural event, and being run from Tuesday to Friday, is being staged as part of a ‘Kenyan Swing’ and with Syme joining nine Tartan colleagues who competed last year remaining in ...

Rory McIlroy is facing a Texas shootout against World No. 1 Dustin Johnson if both players reach Sunday’s final of the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin. McIlroy has been drawn in second side of the 64-player draw and his first-up opponent on Wednesday will be England’s Ian Poulter on the spectacular Austin Country Club course laid out along the Colorado River in the Lone Star State capital. The four-time Major winner then faces American Lanto Griffin in the first match on Thursday ...

Sydney-born Matt Jones brilliantly ended a seven-year PGA Tour winless drought and is also returning to The Masters after victory at the Honda Classic at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Jones, 40, was in a class of his own and leaving his rivals falling all about in the continuing windy and testing conditions and with Jones turning on a masterclass display and also celebrating 20-years a professional in signing for final round 68 and win by an impressive five shots at 12-under par. Daylight ...

Scotland’s Connor Syme waved the birdie wand to secure an equal best European Tour career finish with third at the Magical Kenya Open in Nairobi. The 25-year-old Drumoig golfer posted a superb seven-under par 64 for a 17-under par tally on the Karen Country Club course. South African Justin Harding claimed a second Tour triumph and his 11th pro career success with a last day 66 to win by two shots at 21-under par. American Kurt Kitatama (66) finished runner-up on 19-under. Syme, and contesting ...