Golf, by TourMiss

In a six-week span we’ve had four of the best golfing stories for years. First was Hideki Matsuyama’s history-making Masters triumph and followed a week later by then 47-year-old Stewart Cink, and with son Raegan on the bag, capturing the RBC Heritage by an amazing four shots. A fortnight ago, there were the highly-emotional scenes of England’s 48-year-old Richard Bland’s BetFred British Masters triumph and then eight days later a near 51-year-old Phil Mickelson won a ninth ...

Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre has admitted to being ‘fearful’ of spectators getting too close while competing Stateside. MacIntyre, and speaking ahead of this week’s European Tour Made in Himmerland (Denmark), highlighted examples during last week’s PGA Championship when he may have been off-line with a shot but was then very concerned with the crowd gathering too close ahead of playing executing a next on the Ocean Course. The current World No. 46 was contesting a second ...

Former champ Graeme McDowell has seen two rain delays over two days of what was supposed to be a one-day 36-hole qualifier in Dallas ruin his chances of qualifying for next month’s US Open McDowell’s 10-year exemption in lifting the gleaming US Open trophy on Father’s Day in 2011 along the shoreline at Pebble Beach ended last year at Bethpage Park on New York’s Long Island. It meant unless he was exempt via other means, which he was not, teeing-up in a number of qualifiers and with McDowell ...

Jordan Spieth’s revelation that he retains an autograph of Phil Mickelson from when was around 12-years-old is another of those remarkable stories in golf. Mickelson’s autograph appears on the front cover of a 2004 edition of Sports Illustrated magazine. It’s the now infamous photograph of Mickelson jumping for joy in capturing the 2004 Masters and his first major championship title. Spieth was asked ahead of this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge, and being hosted again ...

Those visiting US-based players could be in for a rude shock when arriving in the UK for July’s 149th Open Championship at Royal St. George’s. The seemingly ‘what global pandemic’ manner now evident in the US,  and so noticeable at last week’s PGA Championship, will give way to the strictness of a first major championship to be played ‘in the bubble’. The European Tour has been back to staging events ‘in the bubble’ since last July’s BetFred British Masters and that protocol ...

R & A CEO Martin Slumbers declared there will be no repeat at this year’s 149th Open Championship of the unruly spectator behaviour that unfolded last Sunday at the PGA Championship. It seemed all of the 10,000 spectators allowed into the final round found their way onto the 72nd fairway to follow Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka at Kiaway Island. Mickelson, who became the oldest winner of a men’s major championship said at the time he found the experience ‘slightly unnerving ...

Padraig Harrington will head to Augusta National next April eagerly looking to become the oldest winner of the Masters. In sharing fourth place at the PGA Championship, Harrington qualified not only for next month’s US Open but the 2022 Masters and in what now be a first return to Augusta National in seven years since he last drove down Magnolia Lane. Harrington and fellow Irishman Shane Lowry were together in the same group heading out sharing 24th place for last Sunday’s final round of ...