Alistair TaitApr 27Bowed But Not Broken By 72 ClubThere were 18 exhausted golfers at the conclusion of the 49th 72 Club at Littlestone Golf Club. Members suffered tight backs, sore legs,...
Alistair TaitApr 24Littlestone Awaits Golf Stamina TestI’ve booked a round of golf on Woburn Golf Club’s delightful Duchess course at 12:20 pm on Tuesday. Not sure it’s the best idea...
Alistair TaitApr 23Golf History Can’t Compete With CashFair play to European Tour Chief Executive Keith Pelley for playing the history card to try to persuade his members to say no to the vast...
Alistair TaitApr 21Remembering James AchenbachThere’s a good chance James Achenbach is still standing at the Pearly Gates talking to St Peter about the shaft he has in his driver. If...
Alistair TaitApr 18Seeking Acronym For Frittelli FarceIt took me a while to pluck up the courage to ask what the letters SMH stood for. My nephew was sending them so often in WhatsApp...
Alistair TaitApr 14Will Envy Encourage A Euro Exodus?What are a rank and file European Tour members going to be thinking on the 12th of June when they look at the final leaderboard of the...
Alistair TaitApr 11Blasphemy Or Brutal Honesty?Tyrrell Hatton’s verbal tirade on the course that Bobby Jones and Dr Alister MacKenzie built needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. He’d...
Alistair TaitApr 9The Worst Ruling In Golf History?Tiger Woods is naturally hogging all the headlines in this week’s Masters. It was the same nine years ago when arguably the worst ruling...
Alistair TaitApr 7Hoping Shepherd Can Tame AugustaLaird Shepherd had to dig deep to win last year’s Amateur Championship. He ran out an unlikely winner at Nairn Golf Club, coming from...
Alistair TaitApr 4A Women’s Masters At Last?What are the odds on Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley announcing a Women’s Masters when he holds his traditional press conference on...
Alistair TaitMar 31Rule Change Will Make Golf EasierPaul Casey has done golf aficionados the world over a huge favour thanks to his freak incident in the final round of the Players...
Alistair TaitMar 30The Weight Of ExpectationMost of us have never experienced the weight of expectation, not to the extent gifted athletes, gifted golfers, deal with it on a...
Alistair TaitMar 28Reading Greens Isn’t Rocket ScienceLet me be completely upfront right from the off: I have no issues with the AimPoint method of reading greens. However, I fear it might...
Alistair TaitMar 25Pass The Vaseline, Please!No, the headline isn’t referring to some tawdry bedroom activity. Petroleum jelly will be needed exactly one month from today to stop...
Alistair TaitMar 24A Simple Call for Golf EquityIt hasn’t taken long this season for this great game of golf to throw up Rules of Golf incidents that have players, caddies, spectators...
Alistair TaitMar 21The Lost Art of Match Play Golf?Who’s the best match play golfer that ever lived? The question popped up on Sky Sports Golf last night, as Messrs Rob Lee, Mark Roe and...
Alistair TaitMar 16Has Pelley Backed The Wrong Pony?So now we know the details of the new Saudi Golf Super League thanks to The Daily Telegraph’s excellent golf reporter James Corrigan...
Alistair TaitMar 14McClymont Deserves Curtis Cup CallIf Scotland’s Lorna McClymont represents Great Britain & Ireland in this year’s Curtis Cup, which she has an excellent chance of doing,...
Alistair TaitMar 12Student Tour Series Fills Important Gap The R&A couldn’t have asked for a better ending to the R&A Student Tour Series – Spain. Playoffs were need to determine the men’s and...
Alistair TaitMar 7Goldilocks GolfersIs there another sport like golf, where its adherents resemble Goldielocks? I think not. This golf course is too hard, this one too soft...
Alistair TaitMar 3Matching Obscenity With ObscenityImagine earning a seven-figure cheque just for being popular. How about earning $8 million even though you only worked one week of the...
Alistair TaitMar 2No Way Back For Phil? Think AgainI had to laugh after reading a recent article asking how/if Phil Mickelson can make a successful return to the game from his latest...
Alistair TaitFeb 25No Brave New Golf WorldOne thing seems self-evident from the PGA Tour’s decision to ban players from joining a proposed new golf league: there won’t be a world...
Alistair TaitFeb 24Another Call To Curb The Golf BallPatrick Cantlay doesn’t look like the sort of person you’d want to sit down and have a blether with over a libation. The six-time PGA...