Golf, by TourMiss

Double Senior Major winning Richard Bland was brilliantly soaring high and straight into contention on the opening day of the International Series Philippines near Manilla. The 52-year old highly affable Englishman posted an eagle and five birdies in a sizzling six-under 66 in the $US 2m Asian Tour event being hosted by the Sta Elena Golf Club just to the south of the Philippines capital. Thailand’s Sarit Suwannarut leads the way and carring his recent good run of form in posting an eight-under ...

The Masters winning trio of Americans Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed along with South African Charl Schwartzel head the field teeing-up in this week’s $US 2m Asian Tour International Series Philippines event taking place on the Sta Elena Golf Club course in the city of Santa Rose located just to the south of the capital of Manila. Joining them is Schwartzel’s major-winning compatriot in Open Champion Louis Oosthuizen along with a wealth of their fellow LIV Golf stars in Kevin Na, ...

Shane Lowry will be hoping he’s not soured a hopeful DP World India Championship victory with what he described as frustraing inward nine on day three of the inaugural event in New Dehli. Lowry remains well in contention for victory in the $4m event after heading into day three at 12-under and did keep himself in frame for first DP World Tour triumph in over three years when he went out and picked-up three birdies in his opening eight holes. However his Saturday showing began to turn pear-shape ...

Shane Lowry was out celebrating on a delightful Indian supper after producing an equal lowest first round score all season on day one of the DP World India Championship in New Delhi. Lowry brilliantly ignited hopes of a first DP World Tour event in just over three years with a blemish-free eight-under 64 to head the inaguural $4m event by a shot from Japan’s Keita Nakajima who had led for much of the day after firing a seven-under-par 65 in the morning at Delhi Golf Club but afternoon starter ...

Rory McIlroy has captured 45 professional tournaments in 10 different countries but now in India for a first occasion the Grand Slam winning Northern Irishman would like nothing more that make that 46 wins in 11 nations. McIlroy has made his way to the world’s most populus nation for a first occasion since helping steer Europe to triumph in the Ryder Cup. McIlroy is making a first visit to India to tee-up in the $US 4 million event taking place on the famed Delhi GC course in the Indian capital. It ...

For Norwegian star golfer Viktor Hovland there was no easy way around it when declaring the controversy surrouding his withdrawal from the final day of the recent Ryder Cup due to injury as ‘pretty upsetting’. Hovland has returning to competition this week in India and was making his first public comments since withdrawing from the Sunday Singles session of the Ryder Cup with a neck injury, which invoked the controversial “envelope rule” Hovland re-aggravated a long-standing ...

Near on a year ago Marco Penge found himself banned by the DP World Tour for placing bets on multiple golf events. While Penge was not betting on himself, it nonetheless led the Tour taking disciplinary action though deciding the events which Penge had bet on “had not been comproimised”. Though when we talk about bets, his bets were not 100s, 100s and 100s of Pounds but averaged just less that £ 50. Penge, who has just completed his first full year on the European-based tour, has received ...