Golf, by TourMiss

Old Westbury, New York … Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy is desperate to end an injury-plagued season with a victory and keep alive a nine-year streak of having won at least one event a year since 2009. Despite the uncertainty following last fortnight’s PGA Championship, McIlroy will return to competition at this week’s Northern Trust and the opening event of the FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. It has also been a fortnight short of a year since McIlroy captured the Deutsche Bank Championship ...

Old Westbury, New York …. If Geoff Ogilvy had not of secured full playing rights for next year’s PGA Tour he could mirror the money on the public speaking circuit being earned by former Presidents and Prime Ministers with his vast knowledge. His pre-Northern Trust press conference, and just two days after moving right on the ‘bubble’ and 125th place on the FedEx Cup to 116th position and the assurance of membership for the 2017/18 season, was a golf writers dream. There was one fabulous ...

New York City, NY … Rory McIlroy warmed-up for this week’s opening event of the lucrative FedEx Cup Series hitting a home run with a golf ball at famed Yankee Stadium. There was no sell-out New York crowd in attendance given the Yankees were competing in Detroit and other than a few PGA Tour officials and FedEx Cup sponsor VIPs. McIlroy first hit wedge shots from a corporate enclosure into the diamond area as part of a ceremony involving FedEx making a $US 1 million donation to St. Jude’s ...

Shane Lowry has vowed to pour all his energies over the next four months to get himself back inside the top-50 to qualify for the 2018 Masters. For a second year running, Lowry is not headed to this week’s start to the lucrative FedEx Cup Play-Off Series on New York’s Long Island. Last year it was by choice and instead electing to travel to Denmark in a last-ditch effort to qualify for the Ryder Cup. However, on this occasion Lowry has missed out on breaking into the top-125 by finishing his ...

Greensboro, NC… Grant Field was heading home to Queensland confident ultra-talented Cameron Smith is back on track heading into this week’s FedEx Play-Series. Prior to Field’s arrival into Greensboro, North Carolina last Monday Smith had missed five of six PGA Tour events since he combined with Swede Jonas Blixt to win the Zurich Classic. Thanks to his work with Field, Smith displayed the form that took him to victory in New Orleans producing rounds of 63, 69, 70 and 63 to share seventh ...

Greensboro, NC ... Henrik Stenson celebrated a 21st pro career victory in becoming the winningest Swede on the PGA Tour and setting a new tournament record in capturing the Wyndham Championship. Stenson, 41 birdied four of his closing six holes and as he had done a day earlier in signing for a six-under 64 and win by a shot with a 22-under par tally. The win in Stenson’s first since his Open Championship victory last year and a first Stateside in four years. It is also Stenson’s sixth taste ...

Greensboro, NC ….  Russell Knox was wasting little time in jetting off to New York’s Long Island in readiness for Thursday’s start to the lucrative FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. Knox walked from the course agonisingly missing what would have been a sixth birdie of his final round in an eventual four-under par 68 for a Wyndham Championship clubhouse share of 25th place at nine-under par. Scotland’s top-ranked golfer capped his round early on in chipping-in from 18-feet and just off the ...