What Would Sam Ryder Think?
There was a time when the PGA champion was given an automatic spot on the United States Ryder Cup team. Howard Twitty was denied an...
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Alistair Tait
- Mar 31
A LIV v the World Masters? Yes Please!
Anyone else hoping a LIV player wins the Masters? Wouldn't that turn the genteel world of golf upside down? Not sure the Green Jackets...
Alistair Tait
- May 23, 2022
Will We See Tiger’s Like Again?
There’s something sad about watching a golfer past his prime trying to play as if he is still in his halcyon days. I’m sure I wasn’t the...
Alistair Tait
- Mar 24, 2022
A Simple Call for Golf Equity
It 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 Tait
- Mar 3, 2022
Matching Obscenity With Obscenity
Imagine earning a seven-figure cheque just for being popular. How about earning $8 million even though you only worked one week of the...
Alistair Tait
- Jan 14, 2022
Can We Change Our Golf Story?
If Bryson DeChambeau can change his spots, why can’t this leopard do so too? Or am I trapped inside the body and mind I was born with and...
Alistair Tait
- Nov 29, 2021
Over to you Messrs Monahan & Pelley
If PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and European Tour boss Keith Pelley had hoped members of the organisations they head were going to...
Alistair Tait
- Nov 12, 2021
All Set For A Saudi Showdown?
The first week in February should make for interesting times in the world of men’s professional golf. The European, PGA Tour and Asian...
Alistair Tait
- Nov 8, 2021
Does Golf Really Need A Spirit Level?
Here’s an interesting thought following the PGA Tour’s decision to ban green reading books as proposed from 1st January next year. How...
Alistair Tait
- Oct 8, 2021
A Golf Match Too Far?
Was the whole Bryson versus Brooks feud a complete con? An elaborate hoax to drum up interest in The Match? You can’t blame cynics for...
Alistair Tait
- Sep 1, 2021
Monahan Late To Golf Etiquette Party
You have to wonder why PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan took so long to see the light. You’d think someone on an enlarged seven-figure...
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
- Jul 23, 2021
Sage Words From Super Senior Langer
The old boys playing in this week’s Senior Open Championship on Sunningdale’s Old Course can’t believe their luck. They’re playing on one...
Alistair Tait
- Jul 19, 2021
The Open: More Proof Golf is Fickle
Another major championship and yet again this grand auld game leaves us marvelling at just how unpredictable it is. Perhaps that old...
Alistair Tait
- Jul 16, 2021
How about Bryson DeCharlatan?
A good worker never blames his tools. I don’t know how many times my father told me this. Clearly, Bryson DeChambeau’s dad didn’t say the...
Alistair Tait
- Jul 3, 2021
Who’d be a Caddie?
Who knows why Bryson DeChambeau and caddie Tim Tucker parted ways after three years and eight PGA Tour wins together, including last...
Alistair Tait
- Jun 2, 2021
It really is a man’s golf world
Seems incongruous just a day after International Women’s Golf Day to think this week’s U.S. Women’s Open at the Olympic club features a...
Alistair Tait
- May 5, 2021
Who will win golf’s high stakes poker game?
Would PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan really ban Tiger Woods from the PGA Tour if golf’s biggest draw decided he wanted to make an...
Alistair Tait
- May 4, 2021
2,824 days and Rory’s still counting
Hands up if you thought we’d reach this day and Rory McIlroy would still be looking for his fifth major championship victory? Thought so....
Alistair Tait
- Apr 17, 2021
Where do stand on arm-lock putting?
Remember the furore Sam Torrance (above) created when he began using the long putter? Traditionalists were up in arms when the Scotsman...
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