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....
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Alistair Tait
- Aug 10
On The Road To Major Golf Parity?
Will we ever see the day when women receive the same prize money for winning golf majors as men get for winning grand slam tournaments?...
Alistair Tait
- Apr 11
A Major Benefit Of Golf's Civil War
Wasn’t it great seeing all the top golfers teeing it up at The Masters? Not just the ones the PGA Tour thinks should be in action. Brooks...
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
- Dec 14, 2022
Golf: The Game We Just Can’t Quit
Interesting comments on Tiger Woods from Colin Montgomerie on the Bunkered.com podcast. The eight-time European Tour order of merit...
Alistair Tait
- Sep 3, 2022
Time To Right A Rankings Wrong
The strongest men's professional tournament being contested this weekend features 12 major champions with 22 trophies from the...
Alistair Tait
- Apr 21, 2022
Remembering James Achenbach
There’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 Tait
- Apr 11, 2022
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...
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
- Sep 25, 2021
What Would Bobby Jones Think?
Well done Jordan Spieth for taking some American fans to task for booing Europe’s Ryder Cup men yesterday. Sadly, it won’t stop the same...
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 21, 2021
A token gesture on slow play?
What do Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama, Guan Tianlang and John Catlin have in common? They’re the only three players in the last eight...
Alistair Tait
- May 19, 2021
One and done for PGA winner?
There’s a good chance whoever wins this week’s PGA Championship at Kiawah Island may never win another major. Of the men’s marquee...
Alistair Tait
- May 1, 2021
Bob MacIntyre’s selfless act of class
It’s 96 miles from Glencruitten Golf Club in Oban to Dunaverty Golf Club on the tip of the Mull of Kintyre. According to Google Maps, the...
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...
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