Golf, by TourMiss

When it comes to statistics it seems, and except for one ‘Major’ and an 83rd  PGA Tour win, that Tiger Woods holds all the records. No so as we’re learning that Rory McIlroy has toppled Woods for youngest player to spend 500 weeks inside the top-10 on the official World Rankings (OWGR). According to the World Ranking guru @Nosferatu. McIlroy accomplished the feat at 30 years, 6 months, 8 days old, breaking a mark previously held by Woods, who needed four months more to reach the ...

As Open Champion, Shane Lowry prepared to jet off to Dubai for a family break ahead of his crack at the European Number One spot, his good friend, Paul Dunne was sharpening the pencils ahead of 108 holes of hell at Final Stage Q-School. Their paths could hardly have sent the pair in more different directions this term; Lowry breaking through with a maiden Major triumph at Portrush as Dunne’s game crumbled with 12 missed cuts in his last 14 events. Lowry’s no stranger to suffering at the hands ...

Open Champion Francesco Molinari has formally confirmed Mark ‘Fooch’ Fulcher will be taking over the caddying duty for the champion Italian golfer’s first event of the New Year. ‘Fooch’ is the former very long-time caddy to England’s Justin Rose but had to step down from caddying duties for the US Open winner late last year before undergoing heart surgery on January 10th to replace a valve. Seventeen days late Rose captured a 10th PGA Tour victory and a 21st win ...

Open Champion Shane Lowry has called on the European Tour to end ‘diluting’ the lucrative ‘Final Series’  and avoid anyone becoming No. 1 via a ‘back door’. Lowry, and currently No. 3 on the Race to Dubai, found himself dragged into last week’s controversy surrounding a bizarre scenario involving his Dublin-based Horizon Sports Management stablemate, Ross Fisher. Fisher, and like Padraig Harrington, was afforded an invitation to compete in last week’s Turkish Airlines Open ...

On a day of surprise, there was no-one more surprised than Tyrrell Hatton to be left standing holding the gleaming Turkish Airlines Open victory trophy. Hatton entered round four in glorious sunshine three shots off the lead but ended it as the last man standing in a six-man play-off under floodlights and a near full moon to shine the brightest on the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course in Belek. A birdie on the 72nd hole handed him a closing 67 and a place in the record equalling play-off alongside French ...

… Belek, Turkey  Top-ranked Scot Bob MacIntyre once again is staring at a maiden Tour success heading into the final round of the Turkish Airlines Open. MacIntyre finished eagle, birdie, par and birdie in a round of 67 to be sharing second place with four others, including 2018 Masters champ, Patrick Reed on 15-under par on the Montgomerie Maxx course in Belek. Austrian Matthias Schwab posted a 66 to extend his lead to three shots at 18-under par. MacIntyre and Reed will have each ...

… Belek, Turkey  Firey Eddie Pepperell is facing a hefty Tour fine after walking off the course claiming he’d run out of golf balls following a calamitous ‘Tin Cup’ situation midway into his round on day three of the Turkish Airlines Open in Belek Pepperell, 28 began his round from the 10th and was level par coming to the second hole or his 11th of the round.  He then bogeyed the hole and also bogeyed the third hole or his 12th, and this after using a wedge to putt out on ...