Golf, by TourMiss

… Terry Rowles in Hong Kong. Paul Dunne insists after this season contesting 29 tournaments in 20 different countries and on four continents there is still enough gas left in the tank for this week’s final event of his season, the USB Hong Kong Open. Dunne winds-up just his second full year on Tour a week after ending the 2016/17 wraparound European Tour year 13th on the Race to Dubai. The Greystones golfer banked a whopping Euro 1.7m and in a year capped by victory in the British Masters ...

It was a Saturday morning in Australia – November 23rd, 1963 – and I can still recall to this very day what I was doing that morning. Of course, I am now showing my age but I was headed to a schoolboy game of cricket at Willoughby Park in northern Sydney and close to the family home. I also recall, and  now 54-years on, asking someone why all the flags were flying at half-mast and the reason being the events of Friday, 22nd November, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Having never been to Dallas ...

It has been far too long when Shane Lowry climbed to a career high of 17th in the World Rankings with an eighth place finish in the 2015 Turkish Airlines Open. Some three months earler, Lowry broke into the top-20 with his stunning success at the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational. But since late 2015 it has been an annoying slip down the Rankings and teeing-up in last week’s DP World Tour Championship as the World No. 85. Then after grabbing the clubhouse lead thanks to a sizzling 63 and ...

  The 9-hole Yazoo Country Club in Yazoo City, MS is a private golf course that opened in 1926. Designed by William Brown, Yazoo Country Club measures 3044 yards from the longest tees and has a slope rating of 112 and a 34.5 USGA rating. The course features 2 sets of tees for different skill levels. The greens are bermuda grass.

Geoff Ogilvy admitted it is disappointing and also a shame two of fellow countryman in Adam Scott and Marc Leishman have chosen not to contest this week’s Australian Open in Sydney. The duo, however, are contesting next week’s Australian PGA Championship at Royal Pines. Scott is a former Australian Open champion and could have captured a second in 2013 only to allow Rory McIlroy through to victory on the very last hole. Ogilvy attended a pre-Australian Open press conference where he was ...

If a crow could fly from Sydney to Carnoustie it would travel some 16,800 klms as that is the distance from the famed Harbour City to the venue next July of the 147th Open Championship. This week’s Australian Open will see the commencment for worldwide qualifying into the 2018 Open Championship at Carnoustie. The leading three players, who finish in the top 10 and ties and who are not already exempt, will qualify for the Open at the renowned Scottish links from 15-22 July 2018. Reigning ...

Former Open Champion and European Ryder Cup captain, Darren Clarke will head the field contesting this week’s Gary Player Invitational starting Saturday at Sun City’s Lost City Golf Course in South Africa. Clarke is returning to competition after finishing mid-field in the MENA Tour’s  Jordan’AYLA Golf Championship that concluded the first week in October. It was a number of end-of-season events Clarke contested on the MENA Tour and where he acts as Patron of the ever-growing ...