Golf, by TourMiss

Today  1st January, 2025 marks the 25th aniversary of hitting a first golf shot on a golf course of the 2000 Millennium. I undertook this history-making first on the stroke of midnight at the Manamo’ui Golf Club course on the Pacific Ocean island of Tonga. Tonga boasts the most easterly golf course in the world and given the location of the golf course, and it also being midnight I had the great help of a couple of people who kindly offered to park their cars with their headlights turned on ...

With over 80 golf courses and sunshine practically all year, Portgual has always been a mecca for golfers boasting as it does five strong golf regions – the famed Algarve, Lisbon, Porto, the Azores and Maderia. It’s the Algarve that is most widely known boasting 10 seperate golfing destinations including Villamoura where you’ll find such courses as the Victoria that played host to the Portugal Masters and others including the Old Course, Pinhall and Millennium courses. And while ...

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is a shock withdrawal from next week’s opening event on the New Year – the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. The PGA Tour have just released details of the freak injury sustained by Scheffler in preparing his family’s Christmas Dinner. Scheffler’s manager Blake Smith released details to the PGA Tour who then issured the statement hereunder.   He WD from ⁦@PGATOUR⁩ event Scottie Scheffler pic.twitter.com/Qiktb0Jt9A — Golf & ...

Those who like their Scottish golf may know how partial I am to the Askernish course located along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides. If I have done my job well then you may be planning to visit this Old Tom Morris designed links gem and, if so, you may wish to make the small effort visiting a little-known nine-hole course around a 35-minute drive north named Benbecular. Benbecular is around both a 12-kilometre long and also similar width wide island located ...

There is three golf courses I’ve played that boast bunkers of a ‘different’ kind. When I say of a ‘different’ kind I am referring to concrete bunkers.  I hear you say: “Concrete bunkers?”.  Yes, concrete bunkers and defence bunkers built during World War 11. There is an anti-aircraft bunker still in position at the back of the seventh green on the Craighead Links course at my home club in Crail, Scotland.  The bunker at Crail faces the North Sea is among ...

Of the pressent 85 envelopes postmarked ‘Augusta, GA’ and despatched in the days leading-up to the end of this year, 13 of those will be headed to golfers for the first time. Among those are four amateurs (Jose Luis Ballester, Evan Beck, Hiroshi Tai and Noah Kent), seven first-time PGA Tour winners (Rafael Campos, Nico Echavarria, Tom Hoge, Taylor Pendrith, Aaron Rai, Matt McCarty and Maverick McNealy) South African Thirston Lawrence and Max Greyserman and with the American posting three ...

After the delight and thrill in watching and listening to Tiger Woods over the past three days, the 15-time major champion looks and sounds ready to return to formal PGA Tour competition. Woods and 15-year-old son Charlie brilliantly teamed in going so close to securing a maiden PNC Championship victory, losing out to a Bernhard Langer eagle putt as the first extra play-off hole on the host Ritz Carlton course in Orlando. While a Team Tiger maiden success would have been such a great storyline, Tiger ...