Golf, by TourMiss

Pacific Palisades, California … Tiger Woods displayed plenty of brilliance when the tournament host holed-out for an eagle in his second round of the badly rain-affected Genesis Open near Santa Monica. Woods, and his other competitors, had less than 12-hours between ending Friday’s rain-drenched play and returning to the course and be in place at 5am Saturday local time to complete his second round. Woods had managed to play 12 second round holes when play was halted at 5.20pm local ...

Rory McIlroy had less than 12-hours between ending Friday’s play in steady rain and then return to the course to complete his second round of the weather-affected Genesis Open at the Riviera County Club. McIlroy had completed 12 second round holes when play was halted at 5.20pm local US time and with the World No. 9 having moved from outside the cut-off mark following his opening one-over par 72 to be four-under par for his round and three-under par for the $US 7.6m event. McIlroy had just 45-minutes ...

  Rare collectibles spanning more than a century and featuring many of golf’s greatest performers, personalities and championships shape the PGA REACH Collection, which will be unveiled for the first time in an online auction Feb. 15 to March 3. Managed through The Golf Auction (TGA) of Tampa, Florida, all proceeds will benefit the initiatives of PGA Foundation Inc., charitable foundation of the PGA of America. Highlighted items in the collection include memorabilia from President Dwight Eisenhower, ...

It was a toss of the coin who putted worst – Rory McIlroy or Tiger Woods – in their opening rounds of the rain-affected Genesis Open in suburban L A. McIlroy, who again played alongside tournament host Woods for a second year running, got the start he wanted holing a 15-footer for birdie at the first and move to two-under par with a birdie on eight. It would be the highwater mark of McIlroy’s day after three-putting the short uphill ninth for bogey. Three days earlier McIlroy bet ...

Embattled Matt Kuchar has finally shown some common decency and agreeing to pay his Mayakoba Golf Classic winning caddy the reported $50,000 fee he has been seeking following the American’s success late last year. In a statement released by Kuchar mid-afternoon Friday at the Genesis Open, Kuchar apologised for being out of touch and insensitive, and making a bad situation worse. All credit to leading US golf journalist, Michael Bamberger who reached out to caddy David Ortiz that will now see ...

Scottish golf is on a real high with Euan Walker becoming the sixth Scot in the past nine years to capture the prestigious African Amateur Championship with his success at Leopard Creek. Walker, 23 stormed his way in the heatwave conditions to win by three shots and with the Kilmarnock (Barassie) golfer’s win coming just four days after Aberdonian David Law brilliantly eagled the last to win a maiden European Tour victory in Australia. Scottish amateurs have now won six of the last nine African ...

Graeme McDowell may have forfeited full PGA Tour membership but his standing in the game speaks volumes with the Ulsterman now headlining alongside fellow Major Champions Jordan Spieth, Jim Furyk, Jason Dufner and Jimmy Walker in April’s Valero Texas Open in San Antonio. McDowell returned to competition at last week’s AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on an invitation but had to sit out the Farmers Insurance Open a fortnight earlier, and also having been afforded an invitation, after bruising ...