Golf, by TourMiss

Rory McIlroy clearly cannot wait for his frustrating and first winless season in nine years to end. And, in what will be a sad reflection of his year, McIlroy will putt-out in his final event of the year at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship not on the 18th hole of the Old Course where he brilliantly earned his Tour in the same event a decade ago. No, McIlroy, and due to only just making the third day cut-off right on the four-under par mark, will end a forgettable 2017 on the ninth hole of the ...

Defending champion Tyrrell Hatton will take a commanding five-shot lead into the final day of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship as Rory McIlroy’s frustration continues unchecked heading to his last round of the year in Scotland. Hatton, who turns 26 on October 14, was in brilliant form not dropping a shot in seven-under par 65 on the Kingsbarns Links course and one of three host venues in the $US 5m event. The Englishman returns to the Old Course at St. Andrews at an impressive 18-under par ...

International Team vice-captain Tony Johnstone has now joined a chorus hitting out at the ‘yobbish’ behaviour of U.S. fans and also the unsportmanslike words and manners of U.S. players Daniel Berger and Phil Mickelson during last week’s Presidents Cup. Johnstone remarks spring from Aussie-born Marc Leishman’s wife, Audrey who bravely spoke out at the actions of dozens of the clearly beer-fuelled Liberty National spectators. However, Johnstone has gone further calling for ...

Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat continues a resurgence in form posting a six-under par 66 for a share of six place and only three shots off the lead at eight-under heading to ‘moving day’ at the Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. The very affable Aphibarnrat, who was 2013 Asian Tour No. 1, capped his round with five birdies in a mid-round six-hole stretch at St. Andrews, as he seeks not only a fourth European Tour title but a victory that would see him become the first Asian-born ...

European Tour No. 1 Tommy Fleetwood brilliantly set a new Carnoustie course record to move into a share of the lead on day two of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. Fleetwood, 26 produced a bogey-free nine-under par 63 to lower the previous low record by a shot on the course that will play host to next year’s Open (not British) Championship. The effort, in bright but very cold conditions, saw the new father join fellow Englishman and defending champion, Tyrrell Hatton in the lead ...

Swede Henric Sturehed stormed his way to a course-record six-under-par 67 to put himself firmly in the frame for a title shot going into the final round of the Jordan’s Ayla Golf Championship on Friday. On a day highlighted by the visit of HRH Prince Faisal Bin Al Hussein, president of the Jordan Olympic Committee, to the venue of the first MENA Tour event in Jordan, the Swede went bogey-free in his second round, bettering the previous record of a 69 jointly set by the English duo Luke Joy and ...

Audrey Leishman, and the wife of Australia’s Marc Leishman, has slammed her fellow countrymen for their unruly behaviour at last week’s Presidents Cup in New Jersey. In an artcile by good friend and colleague ESPNs Bob Harig, the mother of three young children spoke#n first of her disappointment with the unsportsmanlike comments of American golfer, Daniel Berger on the eve of the third day’s play. But she then singled out the unruly manners of the fans, and many who she noticed ...