Golf, by TourMiss

How many New Zealand-born golfers in the prior 107 times hosting of the Crown Australian Open  have won Australia’s leading championship? It’s a question I should know the answer but after checking the records of the championship it came as big surprise to learn a golfer from Australia’s nearest neighbour has not been handed the Stonehave trophy. Indeed there has been just one Kiwi runner-up and that being John Lister in 1977 who ended in a three-way tie for second behind Aussie ...

Grand Slam winning Rory McIlroy revealed he battled hay fever and dizziness early in his bogey-laden opening round at the Crown Australian Open in Melbourne. McIlroy’s on-course showing was as though Royal Melbourne was biting back after McIlroy’s pre tournament comments when suggesting Ausralia’s continually rated No. 1 course was not in his view the best in the country. Nonetheless a full house crowd was on the tee from as early as 7am eagerly anticipating McIlroy’s arrival ...

The Scottish foursome of Grant Forrest, Calum Hill, Connor Syme and Ewen Ferguson will kick off their 2016 DP World Tour season contesting week’s Gary Player honoured Nedbank Challenge in South Africa. The tartan four have enjoyed a few weeks break since the closing two events of the 2025 Race to Dubai season in the Middle East. It was a special year particularly for Hill and Syme with Hill superbly capturing the Joburg Open and later on when all of Scotland applauded the effort of Syme with ...

Chris Wood is on his own leading by a shot heading to the final round of the MENA Tour’s Rolear Algarve Classic being staged on the Amendoeira Golf Resort’s O’Connor Course. Wood posted a second round four-under 68 to break clear of enjoying a three-way tie for the first round lead to be now on his own and leading by a shot at 11-under on the host Christy O’Connor designed West Course at the famed Amendoeira Golf Resort. WOOD HITS THE FRONT … Chris Wood a round shy ...

Super-talented French golfer Martin Couvra has been named the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year for 2025, becoming the second French player to win the DP World Tour’s prestigious award. Couvra won the Turkish Airlines Open in May and registered six other top ten finishes to end the 2025 season in 19th position on the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai Rankings Delivered by DP World. The 22 year old is the first French golfer since Olivier Edmond in 1998 to win the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the ...

  The PGA TOUR has announced nominees for the Jack Nicklaus Award (Player of the Year) and the Arnold Palmer Award (Rookie of the Year) for the 2025 season as finalized by the PGA TOUR Player Directors and members of the Player Advisory Council (PAC). Four players are nominated for the Jack Nicklaus Award as the 2025 PGA TOUR Player of the Year (alphabetically): Tommy Fleetwood, Ben Griffin, Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler. The five nominees for the Arnold Palmer Award as the 2025 PGA TOUR ...

Rory McIlroy heads into his final event of the year declaring twenty, twenty-five to be ‘The Year of My Dreams” and revealing when last in Australia he received a handshake from a rival caddie that he thought had broken his hand. For McIlroy it has been very much a dream season winning, and in order as they happened, the AT & T Championship, the Players Championship, the Masters and becoming a Grand Slam winner, savouring a second Irish Open success, being a member of the 2025 victorious ...