Golf, by TourMiss

The PGA Tour Players Advisory Committee it is understood today (Tuesday) backed a PGA recommendation to return to competition on June 11 for a rescheduled Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas. It was thought the Texas event on the famed Colonial course would take place at the end of next month from May 21-24, and as presently appearing on the schedule, but given on-going fears over COVID-19, the Tour will announce shortly a move for the Texas event to the second week of June, and with the ...

European Tour CEO Keith Pelley has advised Tour players to be prepared for a “radically different” Race to Dubai make-up when the Tour eventually resumes its schedule following the coronavirus pandemic. Pelley forwarded an email memo to all memberrs including the likes of World No. 1 Rory McIlroy and Open Champion, Shane Lowry, advising of the potential impact with regards to Tour finances, various tournament sponsors and TV broadcasting rights. Pelley went as far to also point out those ...

Rory McIlroy’s had eleven attempts in striving to win the Masters in the month of April and is now backing himself to break his Augusta National ‘drought’ in noNovember. Six-time Masters winning Jack Nicklaus reckons McIlroy could bloom in the winter-like conditions later this year and now so does the current World No. 1 who’s had five top-10s at Augusta. McIlroy’s also won nine of his 10 of his 27 career victories in the last four months of the year and went so close ...

Doug Sanders was a regular passenger of the once-a-year flight from Houston to Augusta, Georgia. Organisers of the Shell Houston Open, and when it was staged the week prior to the Masters, would arrange a United Airlines charter flight direct from closeby Houston Bush Airport on the Sunday night following the conclusion of the event and then head straight to Augusta, GA. The flight was normally for players, caddies, officials, media and anyone happy enough to pay a reduced fare, and one of those ...

The decision by the R & A to cancel this year’s hosting of the 149th Open Championship could be the gain of the Jack Nicklaus hosted Memorial. The Memorial is due to be staged from June 4th to 7th but with continuing fears over COVID-19 Memorial event organisers have already been in contact with the PGA Tour with a view to postponing the event. And with the week of The Open, namely July 16th to 19th, now free the Memorial is seeking to fill that now vacant week given the PGA Tour website ...

Double Australian Open winner Matt Jones and joint third-placed Aaron Pike can breath a small sigh of relief knowing their places in the rescheduled 2021 Open Championship are assured. The PGA sent a memo to all Tour members, including Jones, stating all players who had secured a spot in the field for the Open Championship as of April 6, 2020, will remain eligible for the rescheduled 2021 tournament at Royal St. George’s. Strangely, the R & A had not indicated this in their recent statement ...

The PGA Tour has advised as members it is considering a return to competition on May 21st at the Charles Schwab Challenge at Fort Worth, Texas. In a leaked memo on Thursday to all players, the Tour said it has been looking at options ‘preserve the maximum number of events we can while giving us more time as the crisis evolves’ and that it has not ruled out a restart from the Coronavirus in Texas. And one of those options included the possibility of playing tournaments without galleries The ...