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...
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European Tour and Ladies European Tour insights
Alistair Tait
- Sep 25
Nothing Wrong With Honours Even
The only thing that spoiled the conclusion of the 18th Solheim Cup was the suggestion that somehow the 14-14 result wasn’t satisfying....
Alistair Tait
- Aug 19
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
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
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
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
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
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
- Mar 2
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
“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
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
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
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
- Jan 2
RIP Baz Lane – One of The Good Guys
Barry Lane climbed up on to the disused shed and walk along the single beam that was the apex of the small building at Downshire Golf...
Alistair Tait
- Dec 21, 2022
Fitzpatrick Deserves More Respect
Add Matt Fitzpatrick’s name to the list of British golfers who haven’t received the respect they deserve, a list that includes Catriona...
Alistair Tait
- Nov 30, 2022
Golf's Misnomer Of The Year?
Stand at the top of Ben Hope on a sunny day and the 360 degree view is a glorious vista of seeming nothingness. Bogs, lochans, rivers,...
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 16, 2022
Where Golf Dreams Die?
The former Ryder Cup player played the 18th hole at San Roque the way I might have played it. Badly. Obviously not because of lack of...
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 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...
Alistair Tait
- Oct 6, 2022
Selling Off European Golf's Future?
Here’s a thought: Imagine Sir Alex Ferguson when he was Manchester United manager agreeing to reward some of his best young players by...
Alistair Tait
- Oct 1, 2022
No Trickle Down For EuroPro Golf
It just got an awful lot harder for young British and Irish men to graduate to the European Tour. Welcome, boys, to what young British...
Alistair Tait
- Sep 22, 2022
Fanciful French Open Feelings
Italian golf officials luxuriating in the success of last week’s Italian Open might want to check out this week’s French Open. It might...
Alistair Tait
- Sep 12, 2022
The European Dis-Union
Shane Lowry won the BMW PGA Championship, pipping Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm to the title. They weren’t the real losers of the European...
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
- Aug 25, 2022
Yet Another Strategic Alliance Setback?
There surely has to a collective shaking of heads from European golf fans following Jay Monahan’s press conference ahead of this week’s...
Alistair Tait
- Aug 15, 2022
Maybe Sergio Garcia is right
Maybe Sergio Garcia is right: Perhaps the European Tour, now the DP World Tour, is becoming the world’s fifth best circuit. Evidence from...
Alistair Tait
- Jul 28, 2022
Golf Is a’Changin’ – Finally!
Remember when there was no Women’s Scottish Open? When the Ladies European Tour couldn’t find sponsors to put up prize money to stage...
Alistair Tait
- Jul 26, 2022
Why The Saudi Double Standard?
Maybe LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan should be put in charge of all of professional golf. There might be less toxicity and more...
Alistair Tait
- Jul 6, 2022
How Did Golf Become So Toxic?
So much for golf being the honourable game, the royal and ancient pastime, a game for gentlemen and gentlewomen played by gentlemen and...
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