Golf, by TourMiss

Ponte Vedre, FL … Masters founders Bobby Jones and Clifton Roberts will probably turnover in their graves in learning next month’s Masters will probably go ahead without patrons. The 84th staging of the Masters is set to follow the PGA Tour in no doubt announcing in coming days it will be a ‘Players Only’ first major of the New Year at Augusta National. The elite ‘Members Only’ club will already be looking to scrap plans on the Saturday before (April 4th) for the inaugural Augusta ...

Ponte Vedre, FL … Graeme McDowell has entered next week’s Valspar Championship and home of the dreaded  ‘Snake Pit’ for fear of missing out on returning to the Masters. McDowell has dropped four places on the World Rankings since earlier last month moving to 47th with victory in the Saudi International. But since his victory along the Red Sea shoreline McDowell has slipped to be now World No. 51 and one place out of qualifying for the 2020 Master by being inside the top-50 ...

Ponte Vedre, FL …. A ‘No Specatator’ policy is now in place for the remaining three days of the Players Championship along with next week’s Valspar Championship, the following week’s WGC – Dell Match-Play and including the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio. This is the news to rock the golf world but it’s not come as a surprise given similar moves by fellow major US-based sporting bodies such as the NBA, MBL and NASCAR. The following is a statement released ...

Ponte Vedre, FL … Shane Lowry reckons his ‘Clara Jug Syndicate’ is on winner after ‘Theatre of War’ finished a gallant seventh in its New Year race at the Cheltenham. The Open Champion formed the syndicate that includes his brother and long-time close friends as a thank you for their support following Lowry’s Royal Portrush success. In a first race late last year, the four-year old gelding ran second at Leopardstown ahead of it’s 2020 debut in a two-miler on Wednesday. “The horse ...

Ponte Vedre, FL ….. Last-up USA Ryder Cup captain, Jim Furyk knows only too well how strong a player is World No. 1 Rory McIlroy. McIlroy may not have proved pivotal to victory in Europe’s stunning 2018 victory over the Furyk led hapless USA Team in France but the American knows talent when it’s staring him in the face. The now 49-year old Furyk was asked on the eve of this week’s Players Championship what he thought of McIlroy’s current run of four top-5 finishes this ...

Ponte Vedre, FL …. Former Masters champion Adam Scott insists the hosting of the Masters will not be the same without the Augusta National patrons. It is just a month to the hosting of the New Year’s first Major and with each day there’s more news of the cancellations of major sporting events. On the golf front, the European Tour has announced next week’s Hero Indian Open is being cancelled while, and this comes as a surprise, the Czech Masters to be held in late August has also off the ...

Scotland’s Russell Knox has a former Tour caddy back on his bag though it was a 16-year old local high school lad calling the shots in the lead-up to the ultra-lucrative Players Championship at Ponte Vedre in Florida. Knox has missed the halfway cut in his last four events – AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Genesis Invitational, Honda Classic and last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational. The Scot had shot a 65 on day two at Pebble Beach but in his other eight rounds Know had not broken 70. And ...