Golf, by TourMiss

It is a virtual log-jam atop of the leaderboard post the Thursday’s opening round at Aramco LIV Golf Singapore breaking new ground. The leading foursome – Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, Lee Westwood and Canadian-born Richard T. Lee each posted 4-under 67s on a demanding day at Sentosa’s famed Serapong course. They lead by one stroke over a group of seven players, with 10 other players another shot back. For Rahm, winner of last week’s HSBC LIV Golf Hong Kong, it’s the 14th time ...

Grand Slam winning Rory McIlroy indicated he will wait till ‘game-time’ tomorrow (Thursday) before making a decision” if he will tee-up in the defence of his Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra, Florida. McIlroy finally arrived at Tour HQ mid-afternoon advising he would play a few holes to assess the state of his game, and a first appearance in a Tour event since withdrawing last Saturday ahead of the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Orlando. Breaking ...

In a very first major public address, new PGA Tour chief Brian Rolapp earlier today unveiled a series of plans to improve the Tour, including doubling the number of signature events to 16, adding in the four existing majors and designate a secondary wave of — Tier II — events building to signature tournaments. This was one of six initiatives Rolapp revealed and indicating the ideal number of tournaments from late January to early September would be 21 to 26. The 53-year-old Rolapp took-up ...

PGA Tour Commissioner Brian Rolapp has been in the role for less than a year though in addressing the media ahead of this week’s Players Championship he got it right by declaring: “It’s not for the PGA Tour to decide whether or not the tournament should be a ranked a major“. It is both a continuing and also an annoying point of discussion whether or not the Players Championship should be a major. The golfing purists will have no talk of The Players being designated a fifth major, ...

Crail Golfing Society is golf’s seventh oldest club and it is proud to announce work on the Practice and Performance Hub has picked-up pace with the site now considerably drier, and construction firm Algo have been able to accelerate activity to catch up for the delays caused by the heavy rain. Algo’s construction team worked late into the evening to ensure the full concrete pour was finished in a single continuous operation. Building Control has since carried out its first inspection and ...

Justin Rose could not have been more to point in calling on Jon Rahm to pay the fines imposed upon him by DP World Tour to ensure his place in next year’s European Ryder Cup team. As being reported by GolfByTourMiss and by evident in our very last post, Rahm is in bitter disagreement with the Tour over sanctions being imposed upon him and this despite seven other LIV Golf players having cordially agreeing to the terms. Rose, who will be very much in contention to captain the 2029 European Team, ...

It seems we may have a war of words surfacing between double Ryder Cup winning team-mates in Jon Rahm and Rory McIlroy. Rahm has been much in the news of late firstly expressing his distaste with the DP World Tour in being imposed sanctions in his wish to rejoin the Tour but then turning to golf’s good guy in going out of his way in arranging a private jet to get  seven players and a caddie out of Dubai and take them to nearby Oman where boarded a private jet to be safely flown to Hong Kong. Rahm’s ...