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Alistair Tait

Nov 23

A waste of parliamentary time

Golf will be debated in parliament today. Seriously. Don’t politicians have better things to do with their time? Yes. We’re in ten midst ...

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Nov 4

Humbled at Hunstanton

Links golf finds you out more than the inland game, especially if your ball striking isn’t strong enough. Hunstanton found me out yesterd...

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Oct 28

King’s course makes welcome return

Senior Tour players will be able to snub their noses up at their junior counterparts two years from now with the news that Gleneagles is ...

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Oct 24

Handicap heaven

There was joy and consternation in the clubhouse of Woburn Golf Club yesterday as fellow members discovered their predicted handicap on N...

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Oct 15

The death of par 5s?

Are par 5s obsolete? Perhaps not to you or I, but what about at the highest level of the game? Seems so according to Golf Digest’s Jerry ...

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Oct 8

Wentworth's East is best

The BMW PGA Championship is being held on Wentworth’s worst course. The West Course isn’t a patch on the East, the first course Harry Col...

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Alistair Tait

Aug 21

Don't return Postage Stamp to sender

The world’s best women didn’t tear Royal Troon’s shortest hole asunder in the opening round of the AIG Women’s Open. The Postage Stamp mo...

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Jul 27

No rakes, no excuses

Former European Tour pro Ricky Willison wants to start a campaign to get golfers to take better care of bunkers even if we can't use rake...

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Jul 17

The Open’s lost links

Royal Portrush’s return to the Open Championship rota last year must’ve had members of other former Open venues pining to see the game’s ...

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Jun 22

The Machrie: quintessential links golf

Walter Hagen never did make it to The Machrie. Shame. That goes for anyone else who hasn’t played golf on Islay. Quite simply, The Machri...

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May 26

Get away from it all on Arran

The elderly man stuck his thumb out just after I left Shiskine Golf Club. Anywhere else in the world and I’d have driven on by. Not on Ar...

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Alistair Tait

May 22

Time to grab a golf gem

There’s never been a better time to play the numerous hidden gems dotted around the United Kingdom. Especially with the eye watering gree...

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May 15

Save golf has to be the new mantra, not grow the game

Grow the game has been the mantra in golf for a long time. The coronavirus pandemic has changed that. The key now is to save the game, to...

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Apr 30

Take the long and winding road to Machrihanish

You can get to Machrihanish a lot faster than Old Tom Morris did in 1879 when he agreed to improve Machrihanish Golf Club. However, to ex...

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Apr 18

Wonderful West Lancs

How West Lancs managed to stay off my radar screen for so long is still a mystery. It’s somehow the forgotten links in the string of grea...

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Apr 17

Why golf is where it is

As far as I know Mike Clayton and Guy Singh-Watson don’t know each other. They have a lot in common: they’re both trying to figure out how...

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Apr 10

Fantastic Fortrose & Rosemarkie

Somewhere on Fortrose & Rosemarkie’s back nine I felt like slapping myself around the head. How I had been travelling to the Inverness re...

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Mar 16

How will golf clubs survive Coronavirus?

You don’t need to be a Mensa member to figure out golf clubs are probably going to struggle in the upcoming weeks, perhaps months, becaus...

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Mar 9

Is the “Golf Club” past its sell by date?

I’m a big fan of Golf at Goodwood even though I’ve never been there. Whoever came up with the brilliant idea to drop the words “golf club...

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Mar 3

666 stands for golf heaven, not hell

The numbers 666 stand for the sign of the devil and conjure up images of hell. Not at The Berkshire they don’t. They signify a little bit...

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The day the European Tour died?

No strategic alliance joy for the 68

Former European Tour employees must have choked on their aperitifs when chief executive Keith Pelley said the Tour was not in financial d...

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Lingering strategic alliance questions

Listening to sports administrators deliver important announcements is a bit like looking at the Frequently Asked Questions sections on mo...

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