Golf, by TourMiss

Graeme McDowell has no shortage of support in striving to qualify for next week’s Masters McDowell is contesting this week’s Valero Texas Open and the one last qualifying event for the year’s first Major starting April 11th at Augusta National. And after ending a four-year victory drought last Sunday, McDowell continued his good form in posting an opening score of a superb three-under par 69. G Mac did not grab a first birdie to the ninth and went to two-under par with a six-footer at the ...

Organisers of golf’s oldest Major have now allowed competitors to wear shorts. The R & A, as organisers of the Open  Championship, have now joined the PGA Championship, the European Tour, the Asian Tour and more-recently the PGA Tour in approving the wearing of shorts during the practice rounds. However, as it common among those who have approved shorts the rule will not apply during the four competition rounds. It’s a change in golf but I don’t see why not. People play golf in shorts ...

Graeme McDowell brilliantly ended a more four-year winless drought in capturing the PGA Tour’s Corales Puntacana Championship in the Dominican Republic. McDowell came from one shot behind with two holes to play to post a closing three-under par 69 and despite what was a tap-in bogey at the last he won by a stroke with an 18-under par tally in very hot conditions on the Caribbean Island. The win is McDowell’s fourth PGA Tour triumph and a 15th win worldwide but of more importance a first since ...

The anxious, nail-biting wait is over with confirmation Shane Lowry is heading to next week’s Masters. A week ago, Lowry was in Austin, Texas ranked No. 48th in the world and needing to be inside the top-50 as at the close of all competition today (Sunday, March 31st) to be assured of receiving an invitation to tee-up at Augusta National. The Irishman lost his opening match in the WGC – Dell Technologies Match-Play but then breathed life into staying inside the cut with a brilliant ...

Jack Gallacher, and the recently-turned 18-year old caddying son to Steve Gallacher, is celebrating what should be around a Euro 40,000 windfall after his father’s Hero Indian Open success. Gallacher ended a five-year victory drought with a remarkable one shot victory in New Delhi. The 44-year old Scot looked out of any contention in taking a quadruple bogey ‘8’ at the par-4 seventh hole before sensationally regrouped to birdie three of his closing four holes in a round of 71 and ...

Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher gallantly regrouped from taking what could have been a tournament-destroying quadruple bogey ‘8’ mid-round to end a five-year winless drought in sensationally capturing the Hero Indian Open in New Delhi. Gallacher, with 18-year son Jack as caddy, put two balls off the seventh tee out-of-bounds to drop from then third and one off the lead before showing enormous Scottish pride to play his closing 10 holes in five-under, including birding his last ...

Paul Dunne continued to make the most of his invitation and brilliantly birdie his closing two holes to remain just one shot off the lead with two rounds to play in the Corales Puntacana Championship in the Dominican Republic. Dunne headed into day two of the $US 6.3m event in a three-way share of the lead thanks to an opening six-under par 66. However, it turned pear-shape for the Irishman when he missed the green at the par-3 and with his ball landing in a native area from where he found a greenside ...