Golf, by TourMiss

For so long, Australian-born golfers have found their way home for the Christmas/New Year season. They’ve returned in the later weeks of a year to support the Australsian Tour but this year is the first time all Australians have gone without playing back on home soil given the global pandemic resulted in the 2020/21 season being cancelled. Defending Farmers Insurance Open winner Marc Leishman is one of dozens who missed out on supporting the Australasian Tour and indeed, the pandemic meant ...

Robert MacIntyre admits he would have snapped-up a top-20 finish at the start of his new season last week in Abu Dhabi. MacIntyre muscled his way to a share of 16th place with fellow Scots Stevie Gallacher and Scott Jamieson at six-under par in the 2021 opening Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship while MacIntyre’s solid showing in the UAE capital was also in stark contrast to a year ago when a niggling wrist injury forced him out of the event. He said: “Yes, I would have snapped it up in taking a ...

Marc Warren could not contain his delight in holding a 40-footer birdie putt that earned him a cool £91,000 to wrap-up a share of fifth at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Warren was staring at missing out on a top-10 finish in the $US 8m Rolex Series event until he birdied the par-3 16th and then holed his monster birdie at the 72nd hole. The Glaswegian’s finish helped celebrate the start of his 15th European Tour season and also securing his best finish by 21 places in 14 prior Abu Dhabi ...

Tyrell Hatton has added further insult to Rory McIlroy’s Abu Dhabi pain in elbowing his way past McIlroy into No. 5 on the World Rankings. Hatton continues to make his push to the top of the Rankings pile and is up four places on the back of his comprehensive demolition not only of McIlroy but many of the best in Europe. At the start of last year, the now 29-year-old Englishman was No. 31 in the world and over the past nine months has picked-up victories in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the European ...

A new year and new season goals but sadly the same old disappointment for Rory McIlroy at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. McIlroy stumbled his way to final round 72 and a distant five shots at 13-under par behind Englishman Tyrrell Hatton. So much for Hatton’s newfound ‘Angry Golfers’ social media image as he became Europe’s happiest golfer winning at ease by four shots thanks to a closing 66 for an 18-under par tally on the National course in the Abu Dhabi capital. Hatton, 29, captured ...

Jason Scrivener celebrated Australia Day two days earlier banking the biggest prize cheque of his career in finishing second at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship The 31-year-old born in South Africa but an Aussie living in Perth for over 20-years, posted a stunning final round 66, and that included back-nine of just 29 strokes, to finish runner-up at 14-under par. Scrivener’s last nine commenced with a 10th hole eagle ‘3’ and he then proceeded to pick-up birdies at the 12th, three ...

So much for the tag of ‘Angry Golfer’ as Tyrrell Hatton was all smiles in cruising to an effortless victory in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Hatton, 29, brushed aside Rory McIlroy in posting a rock solid final day 66 and win with an 18-under par ally on the National course in the UAE capital. Aussie Jason Scrivener, 31, played he closing nine holes in just 29 strokes, and thanks to a 10th hole eagle ‘3’ and also five birdies, to grab second place thanks to a round of 66 ...