Golf, by TourMiss

This week marks the 12th anniversary of Graeme McDowell’s resounding Father’s Day U.S. Open triumph at Pebble Beach. Since then McDowell has contesed every U.S. Opene including teeing-up at Congressional (2011), Olympic (2012) and where he was tied second, Merion (2013), Pinehurst (2014), Chambers Bay (2015), Oakmont (2017) and then a year ago at Erin Hills in rural Wisconsin. Suffice to say two of the past three U.S. Open courses, and without singling out the venues, have hardly been ...

If there is a U.S. Open venue Rory McIlroy loves more than Congressional it’s Shinnecock Hills. McIlroy has spent this past week playing a number of golfing gems in the Hampton’s region of Long Island in readiness for next Thursday’s start to the year’s second Major. Pick of the Hamptons courses is Shinnecock Hills but either side of this year’s U.S. Open venue is Sebonack and Southhampton Golf Club’s where McIlroy has been spotted. In fact, McIlroy first played Shinnecock Hills four ...

Connor Syme grabbed the best finish of his short pro career and has gone close to locking-up his Tour card for next year with a brilliant share of second in the Shot Clock Masters in Austria. Syme, 22 holed a monster 50-foot putt at his closing hole for a birdie ‘2’ in a round 69 for a 10-under par tally on the Diamond Country Club course near Vienna. It left him trailing six shots behind Finland’s Mikko Korhonen, who after a dozen visits to the Tour’s Q-School, claimed his maiden Tour title ...

Kinsale’s John Murphy brilliantly celebrated his 20th birthday calmly holing a 25-foot birdie putt at the Old Course first extra hole to capture the prestigious St. Andrews Links Trophy. Murphy posted a final 71 that included sensationally getting up-and-down from notorious 17th ‘Road Hole’ bunker in holing an eight-footer for par to remain tied with German Jannik De Bryn who had finished with a 68 for his nine-under par tally. Murphy then just missed his birdie putt on 18 in a round ...

Memphis, TN …. It seems getting engaged is catching on the PGA Tour with Rickie Fowler the latest set to tie the knot. Fowler and girlfriend, Allison Stokke were walking along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline, and no doubt close to his Jupiter abode in Florida, when the current World No. 7 turned around the brim of his his Puma golf cap, and got down on one knee to pop the question. And in a response that will disappoint many of Fowler’s female followers Stokke did not hesitate in saying ...

Old Course, St. Andrews … Kinsale’s John Murphy brilliantly tamed the famed Old Course with a sizzling six-under par 66 as he looks to celebrate an early 20th birthday with victory in the prestigious St. Andrews Links Trophy. Murphy turns 20 next Tuesday and after posting a Friday opening score of a one-under par 70 on the adjoining New Course he producing an eagle and five birdies on the historic Old Course to be in second place at seven-under par heading to Sunday’s 36-hole finale at ...

Memphis, TN … Seamus Power remains primed to lock-in his PGA Tour card for next year’s season despite falling from contention with a closing hole double-bogey on day two of the FedEx St. Jude Classic in Memphis. Power, 31 can continue to hold his head high in signing for a one-under par 69 for a share of seventh place on six-under par. It left the West Waterford only four shots behind former FedEx St. Jude winner, Dustin Johnson who warmed-up for next week’s U.S. Open in sizzling manner ...