Golf, by TourMiss

When you’ve been playing the game as long as Darren Clarke has then there’s good reason to love what you’re doing. That’s still very much the scenario for the now 57-year-old Northern Irishman. Even from an early age, Clarke seemed he would go on to forge a pretty decent career in the club-and-ball game winning five prestigious amateur championships in the months ahead of turning pro as a then 21-year-old in 1991. There would have been many thinking at that time Clarke will not ...

This week’s hosting of the 2026 Arnold Palmer Invitational is a double special return for this journalist. Not only will this year’s tournament sadly mark the 10th anniversary year of Arnold Palmer’s passing but also it is six years since the hosting of the 2020 Arnold Palmer Invitational was the last ‘full’ PGA Tour event I attended. When I say ‘full’, I refer to the fact that back in that first week of March 2020 the world was falling more and more in the ...

Firstly, all credit to Ireland’s Shane Lowry. As guttered and clearly as hurt as he was in tragically letting slip victory at the 2026 Cognizant Championship, Lowry spoke to the media following his final round 69 on the host PGA National course. Lowry spoke of his bitter disappointment in losing out in warmly embracing his four-year-old , ginger-haired daughter, Ivy running out onto the 18th hole green to embrace her father. Lowry, and contesting the event for a ninth occasion, eventually shared ...

Columbian Nico Echavarria is a three-time PGA Tour winner but only after Shane Lowry self-destructed, losing a three-shot leading cushion with three holes to play, posting back-to-back double-bogeys at the 16th and 17th holes during the final round of the Cognizant Classic at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens in Florida. It has been six years and seven months since Lowry brought his beloved Ireland to a standstill in capturing the 2019 PGA Tour sanctioned Open Championship at Royal Portrush. Yes, ...

World No. 2 Rory McIlroy will head around a dozen major champions in a field of 200 teeing-up tomorrow (Monday, March 2nd) in the now annual Seminole Pro-Member contest on the ultra-exclusive Florida course. Golf’s newest Grand Slam champion will be joined by fellow Irishman and Open Champion Shane Lowry while joining the fourball will be McIlroy’s father Gerry and businessman Ed Herlihy. Other major winners include Matt Fitzpatrick, Brooke Koepka, Mark Calcavecchia, Nick Price, Stewart ...

The world of golf has opened up for young South African Casey Jarvis reports good friend and colleague, Michael Vlismas.   The 22-year-old won the 115th Investec South African Open Championship at Stellenbosch Golf Club on Sunday to not just add his name to South African golf history, but also secure exemptions into The Masters in April and The Open in July this year. As golf dreams go, it’s one of the biggest for this young star of the game who has come through the ranks of GolfRSA, and who ...

Major champ Hannah Green and her caddying husband, Jarryd are celebrating with a $450,000 victory toast after the Aussie golfer captured her second HSBC Women’s World Championship title and seventh LPGA Tour victory after a final-round 69 secured a one-shot win over American Auston Kim on the Sentosa course in Singapore. Having previously won in 2024, Green becomes the third two-time champion of the event, joining Inbee Park and Jin Young Ko. The victory was made even more special as it marked ...