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Alistair Tait

6 days ago

Golf hell has begun to freeze over

Is it any wonder outsiders look at this auld game of golf and think it’s still stuck in the Middle Ages when they see headlines like:...

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Alistair Tait

Apr 25

English expectations

How many of us have been daydreaming of returning to golf courses we know and love once this Covid-19 nightmare comes to an end? I have....

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Alistair Tait

Apr 7

Mary Poppins and The Masters

Get ready for four days of superlatives. Grass so green, water so blue, pictures so beautiful you’ll think they’ve been photoshopped....

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Mar 18

It’s all relative in Padraig’s world

Interesting comments from Padraig Harrington ahead of this week’s Honda Classic. The Irishman isn’t sitting on the fence when it comes to...

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Alistair Tait

Feb 26

No banter in the Broadacre – again

The WhatsApp conversation finally took a turn for the worse yesterday at precisely 18:52, snuffing out vague hopes of getting back to a...

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Feb 20

Yet another fight for municipal golf

Four thousand, two hundred and seventy-three people had signed the petition when I started this blog. One Ryder Cup hero had signed, with...

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Alistair Tait

Jan 25

My heart's in the highlands

No surprise my heart's in the highlands on this day of all days. Like all Scots, I'll be celebrating Burns Night tonight, albeit a wee...

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Alistair Tait

Jan 20

Who’ll fight for public golf courses?

Interesting piece in Global Golf Post’s International edition this week on a stushie taking place in Australia over public golf courses....

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Jan 15

Municipal golf still matters

Interesting article by Martin Dempster in today’s Scotsman which bodes well for our game. New figures seem to reinforce the theory that...

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Alistair Tait

Jan 12

Turnberry can wait for The Open

Well done Martin Slumbers and the R&A for not making a knee-jerk reaction to remove Turnberry from the Open Championship rota after the...

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Jan 11

What now for Turnberry?

I feel for the staff at Trump Turnberry. I feel for staff at Trump Aberdeen. I feel for nearby businesses. I feel for the wee towns of...

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Alistair Tait

Dec 22, 2020

Food for thought on course bucket lists

Visitors to Sunningdale Golf Club probably don’t give the wee course to the right of the Old Course’s fifth fairway a second thought....

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Alistair Tait

Dec 19, 2020

Short and sweet at Sunningdale Heath

Sir Henry Cotton might have had Sunningdale Heath in mind when he called for short courses to help newcomers and children get into golf....

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Alistair Tait

Nov 23, 2020

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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Alistair Tait

Nov 4, 2020

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...

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Oct 28, 2020

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, 2020

Handicap heaven

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

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Oct 15, 2020

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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Alistair Tait

Oct 8, 2020

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...

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Alistair Tait

Aug 21, 2020

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...

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Walker Cup miracles can come true, but…

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The height of golf hypocrisy?

Does anyone else see the sheer hypocrisy in the response from PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan (above) and European Tour chief executive...

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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...