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...
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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
- Jul 18, 2022
Time For Dialogue Not Diatribe
Perhaps Champion Golfer of the Year Cameron Smith and European Ryder Cup captain Henrik Stenson’s alleged moves to the LIV Tour will...
Alistair Tait
- Jul 13, 2022
Waxing Lyrical About The Old Course
Ah, it’s that time of the golfing calendar again. An Open at St Andrews, when the plaudits roll thick and fast from the world’s top...
Alistair Tait
- Jul 1, 2022
Open Glory, Not Filthy Lucre
There wasn’t much talk of the current state/mess of men’s professional golf in Open Championship Final Qualifying at Hollinwell (Notts...
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
- 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
- Feb 14, 2022
The Open To Go Full Phoenix?
The R&A is said to be considering radical changes to this year’s 150th Open Championship over the Old Course at St Andrews following the...
Alistair Tait
- Dec 8, 2021
Mixed Fortunes for Euro Rookies
Add Matti Schmid’s name to a list of European Tour Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year winners that includes Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka,...
Alistair Tait
- Nov 20, 2021
More 33% Returns Please
Every investor knows any time you get a 33% return on an investment it’s a good deal. So news that the 2022 Trust Golf Women’s Scottish...
Alistair Tait
- Nov 5, 2021
The Meaning of (Professional) Golf
What are the men of the European Tour doing in Portugal this week? Why are the women of the Ladies European Tour teeing it up in Saudi...
Alistair Tait
- Oct 12, 2021
What Golf Is All About
News that Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School has won the Waterloo County Secondary School Athletic Association Golf Championship...
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
- Sep 9, 2021
Portrush Return A No Brainer
No one inside the game of golf was surprised yesterday when the R&A announced The Open would return to Royal Portrush in 2025, just six...
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 30, 2021
Maurice Flitcroft's Lasting Legacy
Here’s a question that’s been on my mind since hearing Maurice Flitcroft’s life story is about to be celebrated in a feature length film:...
Alistair Tait
- Jul 21, 2021
Major Madness
There are just 258 days to go until The Masters. Anyone else find it madness that we have to wait so long for the next men’s major...
Alistair Tait
- Jul 20, 2021
Time for Golf To Leg It
Would the world have reacted in horror if Collin Morikawa had won the 149th Open at Royal St George’s dressed in a pair of tailored...
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 18, 2021
This Funny Old Game Of Golf
Hands up if you thought Darren Clarke and Rory McIlroy would each possess just one claret jug at this point in golf history? Thought so....
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