Blasphemy 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...
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Alistair Tait
- Apr 9, 2022
The 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 Tait
- Apr 7, 2022
Hoping Shepherd Can Tame Augusta
Laird 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 Tait
- Apr 4, 2022
A 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 Tait
- Mar 30, 2022
The Weight Of Expectation
Most of us have never experienced the weight of expectation, not to the extent gifted athletes, gifted golfers, deal with it on a...
Alistair Tait
- Feb 24, 2022
Another Call To Curb The Golf Ball
Patrick 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...
Alistair Tait
- Jan 10, 2022
Oh Gods of Golf Blow Over The Old
I wonder if R&A Chief Executive Martin Slumbers and Championship Committee members were out looking at the Old Course at St Andrews today...
Alistair Tait
- Dec 26, 2021
The 12 Golfers of Christmas – The Greenkeeper
Welcome to another Christmas series highlighting characterisations of golfers we’ve all played with over the years. The series proved so...
Alistair Tait
- Dec 2, 2021
Putting Skill & Artistry Back Into Golf
Well done to the R&A and USGA for introducing a new Model Local Rule to ban players at the highest level from making several library...
Alistair Tait
- Nov 1, 2021
Time For Masters Meditation?
Well done Lucas Herbert on winning the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, the Australian’s first PGA Tour victory in just his 20th start...
Alistair Tait
- Oct 14, 2021
Water, Water ... Nowhere
The late labour politician Tony Benn once said there would be wars over water in future. That’s a hard concept to grasp for anyone who...
Alistair Tait
- Sep 14, 2021
The Real Heroes of Golf
It’s thank a greenkeeper day. Mark down Tuesday 14 September as the only day in 2021 when many golf club members say thank you to those...
Alistair Tait
- Aug 31, 2021
A Game We're Not Familiar With
Call me old fashioned, but perhaps it’s time the PGA Tour adopted Bobby Jones’s wisdom when it comes to advice to some golf fans. Bryson...
Alistair Tait
- Aug 3, 2021
It's A Dodd's Life
Good article in this week’s Global Golf Post by Lewine Mair on recent Senior Open Champion Stephen Dodd. If you think the stereotype of...
Alistair Tait
- Jun 18, 2021
Hurray: No more library trips!
Expect TV viewing figures for PGA Tour events to shoot up when the Player Advisory Council ratifies the banning of green reading books...
Alistair Tait
- Jun 12, 2021
Bring on Bifurcation
When Peter Dawson was chief executive of the R&A, he asked for a show of hands from the assembled press on whether we thought the time...
Alistair Tait
- May 12, 2021
When will golf hit the 8,000 yard mark?
Considering the PGA of America has just announced Kiawah Island Golf Resort's Ocean Course will measure 7,876 yards for next week’s PGA...
Alistair Tait
- Apr 15, 2021
Can literature improve your golf?
A wee internet search of the life and times of Saul Bellow doesn’t unearth any predilection for golf. Same goes for John Banville, Terry...
Alistair Tait
- Apr 14, 2021
Facts matter in battle for golf equality
Woman & Golf editor Emma Ballard hits the nail right on its proverbial head with her first editorial for the publication: facts matter in...
Alistair Tait
- Apr 13, 2021
How low would you go?
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by the controversy surrounding Wayne Player’s gratuitous use of Lee Elder’s historic honorary starter...
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