Golf, by TourMiss

Rory McIlroy is staring again at the opportunity to end an 11-year career drought and win a first event of a New Year at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. Eleven times since 2008, and the year of a first full season in McIlroy’s career, he’s begun a new year on the European Tour and on each occasion he’s gone so close to success including on five occasions being runner-up in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Now in his very first event of a new year on the PGA Tour and ...

Defending Sentry Tournament of Champions titleholder Dustin Johnson has had many firsts in his career but never a first penalty of a new year. Yes, that’s what happened to the golfer affectionately known as ‘DJ’ on day two of the winners-only event in Hawaii. Johnson was handed a two-shot penalty during Friday’s second round after he played the wrong ball from a penalty area on the par-4 fourth at Kapalua’s Plantation Course. It seems Johnson had been ‘misinformed’ ...

Rory McIlroy found comfort in the testing wet and windy conditions to move into victory contention heading to the weekend rounds of the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. McIlroy, and contesting the event for a first time in his 12-year pro career, dealt with the test superbly in posting a second round five-under par 68 to move into a threeway share of second place at nine-under par alongside Bryson DeChambeau (68) and Kevin Tway (71) on the Plantation course at Kapalua. It sees McIlroy and ...

Rory McIlroy commenced his New Year birding three of his closing four holes in an encouraging four-under par 69 on the opening day of the ‘winner’s only’ Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. There was plenty of good in McIlroy’s first round in a first New Year event ever in the States that left him sharing sixth place and trailing just three shots behind American Kevin Tway who, despite suffering from ear and sinus infection, heads the reduced 33-player field at seven-under par. Three ...

The new Bobby Jones Golf Course has opened for public play after a year-long renovation. Thanks to the contributions of more than 130 generous individuals, foundations and corporations, the newly re-imagined Bobby Jones Golf Course is now an unparalleled amenity in the Atlanta community featuring the latest in technology and design to help share the game of golf with players of all ages, interests and skill levels. The Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation, a charitable organisation, said it is grateful ...

Padraig Harrington next Tuesday will be named the third Irish-born European Ryder Cup Captain in the past four Ryder Cup’s. As long-reported and revealed by www.golfbytourmiss.com Harrington will captain the 2020 European Team into competition at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin and a some two-and-a-half hour drive north of Chicago. Harrington’s appointment will be confirmed at 1pm on January 8th in the Ballroom at the Wentworth Club in Surrey. The 46-year has previously been a European ...

European Ryder Cup Captain-elect Padraig Harrington will have his arm in a splint when named next Tuesday as the 2020 European Ryder Cup captain. Harrington revealed he broke a bone in his wrist mid-December in slipping on a staircase in his Dublin residence. The 47-year old, at first, thought it to be just a sprain but a later x-ray revealed evidence of a broken bone and with his arm now in a splint. “A simple slip and sprained wrist mid- December has turned out to be a broken bone in my wrist,” ...