Golf, by TourMiss

How good a deal is this for international/overseas and country members. The opportunity to attain life membership at Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Links just north of Inverness in Scotland. Club Secretary, Mike MacDonald has long been one of the smartest and more-attuned Secretary’s in Scottish Golf and at this time of golfing uncertanity what a super deal the club has placed before those living overseas or in case of a country member, living more than 50-miles from the James Braid designed ...

Wilson Tour stars around the world, including Major winners Padraig Harrington and Paul Lawrie, joined together over the weekend to post videos on social media platforms marking the arrival of their brand new Wilson Staff Tour Bag. Designed to give the players a standout look at the restart of this year’s Tour season, the new bag features the classic Red & White Wilson branding, matched with prominent black lettering on the side panels and the famous Wilson Staff crest. Three-time Major winner ...

News of a Texas golf fund-raising event next, and set to host the likes of three-time Majors winning Jordan Spieth and his fellow PGA Tour pros, was immediately slammed on social media. The Maridoe Samaritan Fund Invitational, a 54-hole event to help out-of-work club caddies, will be played over three days from April 28th to 30th at the Maridoe course in north Dallas area at Carrollton, and this news according to the Golf Channel. The club is ‘home’ to the likes of Spieth and fellow PGA Tour ...

For someone who won an Irish Open as an amateur and then went onto to win golf’s oldest major it seems strange Shane Lowry has ever felt ‘intimidated’. That’s just how Lowry felt during the course of the third round of the 2018 Wells Fargo Championship in suburban Charlotte. Lowry posted opening scores of 74 and 70 for a two-over par tally and found himself group in the third round alongside Phil Mickelson who’d shot a pair of 72s. Mickelson whipped the crowd into a frenzy posting an ealge and ...

Scotland’s historic Home of Golf region, Ireland’s North and North-West links gems, Melbourne’s famed Sandbelt, Mytle Beach, the Costa del Sol, the Algarve, Mission Hills, Bulgaria’s Black Sea and Turkish delights in the Belek region. Golfer’s around the world are spoilt for a choice of global golfing destinations. This journalist has been very fortunate to travel to all of the above and more-recently I happened across another – the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail. Located ...

European Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington has been overlooked for 2021 induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame (WGHOF). Harrington had been among 10 finalists including three others among the ‘Male’ nominees – Tiger Woods, Tom Weiskopf and Johnny Farrell. The WGHOF selection committee met at the body’s Florida offices early in the week of the now cancelled Players Championship and electing as their ‘Class of ‘21’ – Woods, Marion Hollins, former PGA Tour Commissioner, ...

It’s just 150 days to the Ryder Cup and nearly four years on from the ugliness of the 2016 Ryder Cup but then Rory McIlroy is calling for the 2020 Ryder Cup to be put back a year. No doubt, the current World No. 1 is hoping that after five-years he would have got over the personal attacks he endured at Hazeltine. American spectator behaviour, and just a few days following the passing of Arnold Palmer, was at its ugliest worst in rural Minnesota. McIlroy, and also winner the Sunday before of the ...