Golf, by TourMiss

Scotland’s David Law is on target to regain his 2025 DP World Tour card thanks to birdieing his closing three holes in a score of 64 on day four of Final Qualifying at Tarragona in Spain. Law, 33 jumped an impressive eight places to end day four sharing fourth place at 16-under-par and with the leading 20 players after six rounds to be afforded a full DPWT Tour card for next season. The Aberdonian had posted earlier rounds of 67, 68 and 71 before grabbing eight birdies and just the one bogey ...

There is some really great names when it comes to naming golf holes. Famed holes that feature on the Open Championship rota while each April the focus of the golf world is the Masters at Augusta National and golf hole names that most fans of the ancient club-and-ball game are very familiar. Here is a small selection of famed golf holes and some not that well known. * The Road Hole – 17th on the Old Course at St. Andrews (Long been one of the hardest holes in golf) * Calamity Corner – ...

Scotland’s Connor Syme now has a shot at earning around $1.5m if he captures this coming week’s season-ending and limited field DP World Tour Championship in Dubai and all thanks to Ryder Cup heroes Ludwig Aberg and Jon Rahm. Syme learnt of his good fortune soon after posting a closing 70 to share 65th place in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship but in the bigger Race to Dubai picture dropping to 51st and a place outside this week’s 50 players only $10m Race to Dubai closing event. Though ...

Paul Waring will surely now be heading to the PGA Tour full-time after his stunning Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship triumph. Waring, 39 kept his nerve to bravely brush aside the efforts of some of the game’s best, and including three past Abu Dhabi champions, in birding the closing two holes in a round of 66 for a two stroke and 24-under triumph in suuny and windy conditions on the host Yas Links course. Former double Abu Dhabi champ Tyrrell had tied Waring for the lead with a 13-footer for birdie ...

Scotland’s Grant Forrest ended what could be described as a steady sixth DP World Tour season ahead of looking forward to a biggest excitement in his life. Forrest posted a closing round of 70 for a seven-under-par tally in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. The 31-year-old arrived in the UAE capital lying 58th on the Race to Dubai money list and needing to be among the top-50 if he was to travel the hour or so drive north to Dubai and compete in this coming week’s DP World Tour Championship. Forrest ...

The Scottish trio of Connor Syme, Calum Hill and Grant Forrest are going to need to go low over the final round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship if they are to also contest next week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship. The Tartan trio presently are outside of the leading 50 on the Race to Dubai who will gain entry into the $10m Race to Dubai curtain closer taking place an hour up the road in Dubai. Syme is currently the best placed though being projected to drop three places to 52nd ...