Golf, by TourMiss

“Just forever I’ll be able to say I am a winner on the PGA Tour”. The wonderful words from Seamus Power following his stunning maiden success in capturing the Barbarsol Championship at the Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Kentucky. After knocking on victory’s door for some many weeks, the proud Irishman finally broke through for a maiden Tour title defeating American J.T. Poston with a tap-in par on the sixth hole of a playoff. Power’s win, in his 106th Tour start, came from four ...

A decade ago, I ended-up with Dustin Johnson’s putter during the final round of the 2011 Open. I was working, as I still do, with the R & A media team helping out in bringing players to the media centre over the official opening three days and then once the tournament proper gets under way, I would walk escorting the media about the course. So, on the final day of the 140th Open I am walking the last group with Darren Clarke and Johnson. I think it may have been either the 14th or 15th hole ...

Of all the Open Championships I have attended, the 1993 Open at Royal St. George’s stands out as special. Special in that it was a fellow Australian and my ‘growing-up’ golfing idol Greg Norman being handed the famed Claret Jug by legendary Gene Sarazen. Also making it special was seeing the Australian Cricket Team in attendance and with Alan Border’s men already boasting two wins and a draw from their three Ashes series matches against ole foes England. I had been among the media ...

Rory McIlroy has vowed to not again suffer Open Championship stage fright two years on from driving OB off the first and smashing a woman’s mobile phone at Royal Portrush. McIlroy’s errant shot way left off the opening tee in 2019, and in front of so many expectant Irish supporters, sadly laid the foundation for a horror round of 79 that virtually ruled him out of golf’s oldest major. McIlroy admits he was simply overcome by the enormity of the moment and despite a day two 65, it was not good ...

For a second week in succession, Australian golfers have dominated the leading two tour’s with 22-year old Min Woo Lee becoming the youngest winner of the abrdn Scottish Open. Lee, born and raised in Perth, Western Australia, very calmly rolled-in a 10-foot birdie putt at the first extra hole to claim the whopping Euro 1.23m first prize cheque in the rain-affected event held on the Renaissance course to the east of Edinburgh. Lee’s victory comes just a week after Victorian Lucas Herbert ...

Richie Ramsay is over-joyed to have been honoured with the inaugural Jock MacVicar ‘Low Scot’ award following the close of the Scottish Open Championship. Ramsay birdied two of his closing three final round holes in a score of 69 for a 12-under par total and a share of 15th place. The effort one shot fewer than Scotland’s top-ranked Robert MacIntyre who also signed for a 69 and an 11-under par tally. MacVicar passed in April aged 83 and also as the then President of the Association ...

The withdrawal of reigning Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama is a big blow not only to organisers of this week’s Open Championship but the 32,000 a day fans headed to Royal St. George’s. The first Japanese male golfer to win a major advised the R & A a recent positive COVID-19 diagnosis and inability to practice properly has led to his withdrawal and what would be an eighth Open appearance. As well, it robs fans worldwide seeing the three majors winners of 2021 being grouped for the ...