Golf, by TourMiss

Grand Slam winning Rory McIlroy ended his best-ever season on a positive note with birdies at his closing two holes at the Crown Australian Open in Melbourne. Of course, a share of 14th place was not the result McIlroy was seeking but then when he gets home to his wife and young daughter it will be then the enormity of what he accomplished this past season will begin to sink it. McIlroy completed golf’s career grand slam in April with an emotional breakthrough to claim the Masters at Augusta. He’d ...

  “Hey Greg? I’ve Won the Australian Open?”  “Greg? I’ve Won the Australian Open”. The words from Wayne ‘Radar’ Riley sharing his emotions with Aussie golfing great Greg Norman soon after capturing the 1991 Australian Open at Royal Melbourne. As we head into the final round of the first Australian Open at Royal Melbourne since all those many years ago, the memories from that December 1st, 1991 continue to be among the fondest in my reporting on ...

It’s hard to believe that Grand Slam winning Rory McIlroy seems to be having such bizarre bad luck at this week’s Crown Australian Open. Thursday it was battling the indifferent early morning tee-off conditions, day two it was taking a ‘fresh air’ swing down the 14th hole on route to a bogey at Royal Melbourne. Now on day three a banana skin lying in thick grass to the left of the second fairway has seen McIlroy slide nine shots behind Dane Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen who leads ...

Grand Slam winning Rory McIlroys superbly birdied three of his closing four holes and then declared ‘Im ready to roar’ as he heads to the weekend rounds of the Crown Australian Open in Melbourne. McIlroy was looking he may miss the cut in the co-sanctioned event that he’d brilliantly captured a dozen years ago and moreso when he unceremoniously produced a ‘fresh air’ swing in playing from under bushes down the right side of the 14th hole at Royal Melbourne. The World ...

Young Scottish-born golfer Aidan O’Hagan is delighted he’ll now get to visit the Egyptian ‘Wonders of the World’ in finishing runner-up in this week’s MENA Tour Amendoeira Golf Resort’s tournament in Portugal. After 54-holes over the host Christy O’Connor designed Algarve course, the 21-year-old Scot ended-up just one shot shy of tying England’s Chris Wood at 16-under in the second official event of the revamped MENA Tour schedule. O’Hagan matched ...

England’s Chris Wood has wonderfully ended a nine-year ‘official pro career victory’ wait in capturing the MENA Tour’s Rolear Algarve Classic on the Algarve in Portugal. Wood, 38, was never headed leading from start to finish in posting rounds of 68, 65 and a closing 67 for a 16-under tally and one shot success in the second event of the revamed Tour. Scotland’s Aidan O’Hagan, who has managed an ace on day one on the Christy O’Connor designed course, kept ...

Gil Hanse continues to stamp his growing presence as one of the leaders in golf course design work and even moreso with the latest news his services have been retained by Scotland’s famed North Berwick course. The story of Gil’s newest golf course assignment appears on Golf Course Architecture website and you can read all the news by clicking on: www.golfcoursearchitecture.net   We learnt also just a week ago with TGL (TMRW Golf League) announcing Hanse has joined the league’s ...