Golf, by TourMiss

Augusta, GA …. Rory McIlroy was an Augusta National portrait of patience finding his way to share the clubhouse lead with a no-frills 71 on day two of the Masters. It was also a determined and dogged four-time Major winner on a bright but very testing day on the Augusta National greens. McIlroy grabbed four birdies but also dropped three shots to move to four-under par and minutes before being joined in the stately Georgia clubhouse by Jordan Spieth, who fought back from a first hole double ...

Augusta,  GA  ……. Rory McIlroy produced a superb ‘grandstand’ end of his round managing to save par from some six rows back in shooting a 69 to lay a hopeful Masters winning foundation on day one at Augusta National. The effort in his 10th Masters handed McIlroy a then share of fourth place very late in the opening round of the year’s first Major. Former Masters champion, Jordan Spieth has shown immediately he will be a real force in producing a 66 to lead by two shots ...

Augusta, GA ….. Tiger Woods still has Masters winning history on his side after an adventurous 73 upon return in three years to Augusta National. Woods much-anticipated return to the hallowed grounds at Augusta National easily drew the biggest patron’s attendance around the opening tee mid-morning. It has been three years since we’ve heard the Masters starter say:  “Fore please, Tiger Woods now driving”. Also, it was Woods 21st  introduction at the Masters and with patrons easily ...

Augusta, GA … Top-ranked Aussie Jason Day ricocheted his second shot up the first hole at Augusta National off a tree and then a patron’s shoulder to bizarrely find the bottom of his beer cup. Day hit a tree right of the fairway and with the patron, who looked like he enjoys the odd beer, being from perplexed or put off his beer as he duly chugged down the few remaining chugs before producing the golf ball. “Good on ya, mate!” Day could be heard saying. Of course, officials had to first ...

Augusta Natonal, GA …. Calluses on the hands.  It comes with the job of being a professional golfer. When you’re belting golf balls day-in and day-out for a living you simply can’t avoid calluses. Typically the skin on your hands thickens and harden forming a layer of armour to protect your hand from tears and blisters. You can wear a glove but they’re still appear. It’s not a pretty sight and there is not much a manicurist could do. We’re forever seeing players, like Tiger ...

Augusta,  GA  …. Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn reckons there’s a ‘uniqueness’ about Rory McIlroy that makes him the Dane’s pick to finally win the Masters. McIlroy tees-off later today in a 10th Masters and a fourth straight attempt to become only the sixth member to walk through the doors of golf’s ‘Grand Slam Club’. Bjorn contested a dozen Masters from 1999 to 2015 and with a best finish of T8th in 2014. This year though Europe’s captain is at Augusta National in a very ...

Augusta, GA …. The second oldest-living Masters winner reckons there’s room in his locker for another Tiger Woods green jacket. Jack Burke Jnr turned 95 years of age in January and he’s six-months younger than golf’s oldest winner of any Major and that’s the also 95-years old Doug Ford. Both Ford and Burke are Masters Champions, Burke winning both the Masters and PGA Championship in 1956 and with Ford winning the Masters in 1957 after earlier capturing the PGA Championship in 1955. The ...