Golf, by TourMiss

Shane Lowry should be stepping onto the first tee at Royal St. George’s in Kent tomorrow morning (THURS) as the defending Open Championship champion. Instead, Lowry will have to wait a further 12 months before handing back the famed Claret Jug to the R & A. And when he does, Lowry will become the third longest Open Champion to have retained golf’s most famous trophy. Legendary Harry Vardon won the 1914 Open but due to WW1 the championship was not played again until 1920, a gap of six years. In ...

You’ve just sunk the winning putt to capture the Memorial and one of the PGA Tour’s blue-ribbon events. Tournament host, Jack Nicklaus is walking up to you and with his right-hand outstretched. What do you do in these Covid-19 ‘social distancing’ times?  Do you ignore the hand of the world’s greatest-ever golfer?  Do you extend your elbow and hope the golfer known as the ‘Golden Bear’ will likewise respond? One thing is for certain and that is Nicklaus ...

Much has changed in just the five months since Tiger Woods last teed-up in a full PGA Tour event. Not only has the world had to face dealing with a deadly pandemic but around the globe we’ve seen remarkable, and sometimes shocking and disturbing, images in the wake of the death of George Floyd on a suburban Minneapolis street. Tiger Woods found himself asked about the Black Lives Matter ahead of this week’s Jack Nicklaus hosted Memorial, and an event Woods has won on five occasions. “I think ...

Nine-time Major winning Gary Player has been honoured in being appointed Wentworth Club ambassador. Player is the most successful international golfer of all time. He has achieved the kind of worldwide acclaim reserved for only a handful of sporting greats having won nine Major Championships on the Regular Tour, and nine Major Championships on the Senior Tour. The champion South African not only has captured 163 tournaments in his career but the present 84-year old holds the distinction of being ...

Fifteen-times Major winning Tiger Woods returns top competition this week for a first time since the PGA Tour’s return to golf insisting he will miss the energy of not having any spectators in attendance at the Memorial. Woods has not competed in a regular Tour event since last February when he ended near the field in hosting the Genesis Invitational at the Riveira club near Santa Monica. He did compete in a ‘made for TV’ exhibition match as his home Medallist Club in Florida while ...

R & A CEO Martin Slumbers has promised action over the Bryson DeChambeau ‘extra distance’ phenomenon indicating golf’s ruling body will be ‘seriously addressing’ the issue. DeChambeau’s remarkable distance off the tee since the return of the PGA Tour to competition has been the major talking point among not only his fellow competitors but the golfing public alike. The now ‘Hulk Hogan’ look alike sent one drive all of 427-yards during the Charles Schwab Challenge and then in capturing ...

It is not uncommon in all pro sports for sponsors to drop players when they are competing poorly over an extended period of time. Well, not in the case of Scotland’s Marc Warren who brilliantly celebrated a European Tour return to golf in ending a six-year winless drought to capture the Austrian Open. Warren, 39 birdied two of his closing four in a score of 70 to win by a shot at 14-under par on the Diamond Resort course at Atzenbrugg and some 35 miles from Vienna. Warren’s victory is the ...