Golf, by TourMiss

Rory McIlroy has seemingly ruled out capturing golf’s ‘double crown’ and that is winning both the PGA Tour FedEx Cup and European Tour Race to Dubai titles in the same season. Twice before in his now 12-year pro career McIlroy has won the double and that was in 2012 and then in 2014. McIlroy collected a third FedEx Cup No. 1 title with his victory late August at the Tour Championship but he currently trails well back in 24th place on the Race to Dubai and well adrift of fellow Irishman ...

Top-ranked Scot Russell Knox confessed before tee-off he felt much akin to a 15-handicapper in tackling the famed Old Course at St. Andrews ahead of his maiden appearance in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Knox then went out to make a mockery of that assertion in snatching eight birdies in a very impressive six-under par 66 and tied with Kinross’s Calum Hill, who eagled his last at Kingsbarns Links on day one of the event being again staged over three courses in the east of Scotland. If ...

South African Justin Walters said he felt the ‘presence’ of his late father in producing the lowest round of the opening day in signing for a sizzling nine-under par 63 at the Old Course in St. Andrews on the opening day of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Walters did not drop a shot in a round capped in commencing his round from the 10th hole with three birdies in succession. Walters, 38 has faced plenty of adversity on the golf course during the 2019 Race to Dubai, battling a ...

Carnoustie turned ‘Carnastie’ for tournament favourite Rory McIlroy in hitting ‘OB’ during his opening round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. McIlroy was three-under par playing the famed ‘Hogan’s Alley’ par-5 sixth hole, and the 15th hole of his round, when his drive only narrowly cleared the ‘out-of-bounds’ fence positoned all the way down the left-side of the hole. The World No. 2 had to re-load in taking an eventual double-bogey ‘7’ on route to a two-under ...

Lee Westwood was singing the praise of his caddy and girlfriend, Helen Storey after the former European No. 1 aced his penultimate hole at Carnoustie on day one of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Westwood was playing the short par-3 eighth hole as his 17th and was considering a 7-iron when encouraged by his caddy to go with a 6-iron. And then much the delight of the now 46-year old Westwood, his shot hit the green just short of the flag and then took two bounces before disappearning into the ...

Graeme McDowell has returned to competition this week in Scotand still getting over the horror in learning his Bahamas holiday home had been blown off the map by Hurricane Dorian. McDowell along with fellow Ulster golfer, Darren Clarke and South African Thomas Aitken each had their homes totally destroyed at the Abaco resort located on Great Abaco island where the hurricane struck on 1st September. McDowell’s disbelief in trying to fathom the loss of life and the total destruction forced him to ...

Graeme McDowell has revealed how close he and his young family came to disaster in avoiding being at their Bahamas holiday abode that was virtually blown off the map by Hurricane Dorian. The McDowell’s along with fellow Ulster golfer Darren Clarke and South African Thomas Aitken own residences on the exclusive Abaco Golf Club estate on the island of Grand Abaco. Hurricane Dorian struck the Abaco islands on 1st September with maximum sustained winds of 295kph, and is now regarded as the ...