Golf, by TourMiss

… Sydney, Australia  Masters champion Sergio Garcia has played down any injury concern despite arriving Tuesday at the 104th Australian Open venue with the back of both his legs sporting red ‘medical’ tape. Garcia is making a first visit to Sydney for this week’s staging of Australia’s premier event. The Spaniard arrived from Dubai where he had finished his 20th European Tour season sharing sixth place in the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. The 2017 Augusta National ...

… Albany, The Bahamas  Now here’s a statistic of sorts that Tiger Woods is proud of. Woods has been speaking of his pride in not only coming from behind for a first time in his career to capture a Major and that being this year’s Masters. What he is proud of is that when he returns next April the number of those fellow former Masters winners who sit down on the Tuesday night at the ‘Former Champions Dinner’ will not have grown. “Anytime I have gone back as a defending ...

… Albany, The Bahamas Six months on and Tiger Woods along with caddy Joe LaCava got to sit down over a few beers to savour watching highlights of ‘their’ 2019 Masters victory. LaCava, who has actually been Woods full-time caddy since 2011, visited Woods and his family at their palatial Florida home. The pair began chatting. The video recorder was switched on and a few beers were also opened. “We spoke about the conversations we had over each shot,” said Woods in an article ...

Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy are the only golfers among 26 on a ‘longlist’ of nominees for the annual RTE ‘Sportsperson of the Year’ award to be presented on December 14th. McIlroy is a previous winner of the award and so too is boxer Katie Taylor and with the duo along with Lowry favourites to be presented with the award. Also, and a strong favourite is Dublin’s Stephen Cluxton and the most-capped Gaelic footballer in history who also led his team to an historic five-in-row victories. Just ...

Five-time Major champion Phil Mickelson confirmed he will join an already strong Stars and Stripes showing in next year’s Saudi International powered by SoftBank Investment Advisers taking place on the Royal Greens Golf & Country Club from 30 January to 2 February 2020. Mickelson will join Tony Finau, along with defending champion Dustin Johnson along with current World No. 1 Brooks Koepka and Masters-winning Patrick Reed who will journey to King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) to compete ...

…… Sydney, Australia Paul Casey will end a 16-year Sydney absence when he tees-up later this week in this week’s Emirates Australian Open. Casey, 42 was last in Sydney in 2003 when he captured the European Tour sanctioned ANZ Championship on the Alister MacKenzie designed New South Wales club and not that far from this week’s host venue at The Australian club. The Englishman’s victory at the entrance to famed Botany Bay was the then 26-year old’s second of now ...

Exactly three years to the date after turning professional, England’s Harry Konig won his first title in dramatic fashion at the $100,000 Journey to Jordan Tour Championship, the season-ending event on the MENA Tour by Arena, on Thursday. At the Greg Norman-designed Ayla Golf Club, the 24-year-old from Devon seemed out of the reckoning when he was three-over through eight holes. But he first holed his wedge third shot for an eagle on the par-5 ninth, and then played the last five holes to four-under ...