It Pays To Listen To A Good Caddie
There were times reading The Secret Tour Caddie when I wondered if those running men’s professional golf should be replaced by people who...
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Alistair Tait
Nov 16, 2023
Time to Overhaul World Golf Ranking?
A wee look at the contrasting strength of fields for this week’s DP World Tour Championship and the PGA Tour’s RSM Classic will be grist...
Alistair Tait
Oct 20, 2023
Mind the Major Golf Rankings Gap
Will the 2024 men’s major championships truly feature all the best players in the world, or just a selection of the world’s best players....
Alistair Tait
Aug 19, 2023
Contrived, Complicated, Convoluted?
Remember the European Tour’s Final Series? No? Let me jog your memory. Former European Tour chief executive George O’Grady unveiled the...
Alistair Tait
Jul 4, 2023
Harking Back To Opens Past
Amazing to think there’s a series of 36-hole tournaments taking place across Great Britain today with arguably stronger fields than last...
Alistair Tait
Jun 12, 2023
The Height of Golf Hypocrisy
“Where money is concerned, I'm afraid you don't know anyone.” That line certainly applies to PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan. It also...
Alistair Tait
Jun 6, 2023
Common Sense Prevails
This blog appeared on 18 July last year. After today's surprising joint announcement from the PGA Tour, European Tour and LIV Golf , it...
Alistair Tait
Jun 1, 2023
Where’s The Ryder Cup Logic Rory?
I’m confused. Not because Rory McIlroy said he was done talking about LIV Golf to focus on his own game, only to opine on LIV the first...
Alistair Tait
May 24, 2023
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...
Alistair Tait
May 11, 2023
80 Stories Of Struggle And Resilience
Lachlan Wood thought he might never walk again. Kipp Popert (pictured) spent much of his childhood wondering if he’d ever be able to put...
Alistair Tait
May 5, 2023
European Tour Shame
Rory McIlroy and Luke Donald expressed the right word after Lee Westwood, Sergio Garcia and Ian Poulter tendered their European Tour...
Alistair Tait
Mar 2, 2023
Now What For the Strategic Alliance?
Where does the PGA Tour’s strategic alliance partner, the European Tour, feature in its planned schedule changes for 2024? Afterthought...
Alistair Tait
Feb 18, 2023
“Quite simply, JP was the Tour.”
European golf has lost one of its all-time greats. John Paramor (pictured above right) has gone to that great rules office in the sky....
Alistair Tait
Feb 2, 2023
Does Oman spell trouble for Euro Tour?
Anyone seen next week’s fields for the Asian Tour’s International Tour Series Oman and the European Tour’s Singapore Classic? Both are...
Alistair Tait
Jan 19, 2023
A Crux Year For The European Tour?
How will the 2023 European Tour season be remembered by golf historians 100 years from now? As the year the tour grew to bigger heights...
Alistair Tait
Jan 10, 2023
Can Hero Cup Provide Ryder Reality?
I hope this week’s Seve Trophy, sorry, Hero Cup provides inspiration for Europe to go on and win the Ryder Cup in September. I’m not so...
Alistair Tait
Nov 21, 2022
Rory Takes The Road Less Travelled
You won’t get many golf fans unhappy at Rory McIlroy ending the season as European number one, winning the Harry Vardon Trophy for a...
Alistair Tait
Nov 1, 2022
Has Valderrama Said A Sad Adios?
Remember when LIV Golf had no players, no tournaments, no courses, and seemingly no hope – that didn’t age well, did it? Now, as I hinted...
Alistair Tait
Oct 22, 2022
Why Mini-Tour Golf Matters
So farewell PGA EuroPro Tour. After 20 years it is no more. Now what for future aspiring tour professionals hoping to gain a footing on...
Alistair Tait
Oct 14, 2022
If One DP World Tour Domino Falls...
I wonder if European Tour sponsors are currently checking contracts, thinking it might be a good idea to jump ship and dump the old world...
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