Golf, by TourMiss

When Dustin Johnson tees-up in the defence of his Master’s next April it will have been only five months that he’s been officially allowed to wear the famed members green jacket away from Augusta National. It will mean one of the shortest-ever periods between Masters given last year’s tournament was rescheduled from the now regular April date to November due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. In a normal golfing season, the winner of the Masters gets to wear the famed member’s ...

Justin Thomas has slammed fresh R&A and USGA talk of bifurcation rule changes that would see professionals along with elite amateurs ruled to use distance-controlling equipment as ‘extremely selfish’. The R & A and sister ruling body the USGA announced late Tuesday proposed equipment standard changes including a limit of the driver being 46-inches and also changes with regards to the golf ball. And in addressing the effectiveness of current equipment testing processes, protocols ...

British No.1 Tyrrell Hatton handed Robert MacIntyre a ringing Ryder Cup endorsement following last week’s gallant Dubai showing. MacIntyre has jointed Hatton in this week’s third edition of the Saudi International on the Royal Greens course overlooking the Red Sea. Hatton was five days shy of his 25th birthday in moving inside the top-50 on the rankings for a first time thanks to his 2016 Alfred Dunhill Links victory at St. Andrews. It also had taken Hatton 98 World Ranking counting events to ...

The 149th rescheduled Open Championship has been given the green light to go ahead with or without spectators. “We will play the Open this year,” said R & A CEO Martin Slumbers. “We are certainly planning to stage the Open, but clearly at this point there are multiple scenarios. It’s certainly a lot more complex than staging a normal Open Championship. But we are going to do everything we possibly can to put on a great championship for the country.” The hosting of ...

One thing is certain and that is Graeme McDowell will be headed with the European Team to this year’s rescheduled Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. What we don’t know at this stage, and with seven months of the qualification period remaining, is whether McDowell will be traveling to Wisconsin with his golf clubs. ‘G Mac’, who will turn 42 in July, has played in four Ryder Cups, including holing the winning putt at the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor in Wales, but failed to qualify ...

R & A Chief Executive Officer, Martin Slumbers indicated fresh talk of bifurcation rule changes that would see professionals along with elite amateurs ruled to use distance-controlling equipment has nothing to with a ‘specific person’. The R & A and sister ruling body the USGA today announced proposed equipment standard changes including a limit of the driver being 46-inches and also changes with regards to the golf ball. And in addressing the effectiveness of current equipment ...

For defending Saudi International champ, Graeme McDowell there was no escaping the events of some 13,500 kilometres away near San Diego on the US West Coast. While golf has been praised for its social distancing practices during the current pandemic lockdown, the ancient game has only been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. The latest being the lingering controversy over Patrick Reed and the now widely-known incident last Saturday down at the 10th hole of the Torrey Pines course. Reed’s ...