Alistair Tait 2 days ago No Excuses For Paris Olympics Hopefully the Olympic golf stayaways watched the playoff for the bronze medal from the Tokyo Games and had a rethink. Did they register...
Alistair Tait 3 days ago Maybe We Need A Tour Caddie We’ll spend a fortune on endless lessons, golf schools, top of the range clubs, swing gadgets, books, maybe sports psychologists, even...
Alistair Tait 4 days ago 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 5 days ago McIlroy Can Inspire New Golf Dreams Rory McIlroy never stood over a putt as a child and thought this is to win an Olympic gold medal. Future generations might do just that,...
Alistair Tait 6 days ago Golf Can Relate To Biles’ Demons Tour golfers won’t be piling in to criticise Simone Biles for scaling back her Olympic schedule to focus on her mental health. Unlike...
Alistair Tait Jul 25 Golf Dreams Never Die Stephen Dodd would have been forgiven for giving up life as a tour professional in 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999. He failed...
Alistair Tait Jul 24 "And They're All Good Golfers" Ian Poulter made the game of golf look ridiculously easy yesterday over the Marquess Course at Woburn Golf Club. Nine birdies in 12 holes...
Alistair Tait Jul 22 What Else Would Old Golfers Do? Walk along the practice range at Sunningdale Golf Club in this week’s Senior Open Championship and you’ll probably see a lot of 50+ plus...
Alistair Tait Jul 21 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 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 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 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....
Alistair Tait Jul 17 When Rickie Scorched St George’s There are blue skies over Royal St George’s today. The sun is out, there’s a wee breeze but nothing to scare the world’s top golfers. The...
Alistair Tait Jul 16 How about Bryson DeCharlatan? A good worker never blames his tools. I don’t know how many times my father told me this. Clearly, Bryson DeChambeau’s dad didn’t say the...
Alistair Tait Jul 15 England Expects at Royal St George’s Royal St George’s has a special place in golf history, particularly British golf history, and specifically English golf and Open...
Alistair Tait Jul 12 No Open Lottery Please! If you thought deciding a major football tournament by penalties was a lottery, how about deciding the Open Championship based on what...
Alistair Tait Jul 5 That Dream 54 Might Just Be Possible Urban golf myth says Ben Hogan had a recurring dream. The Hawk would play 17 holes in his sleep and birdie every one of them. He’d reach...
Alistair Tait Jul 4 Golf’s Chrysalis Moment The silver lining for golf as a result of Covid-19 has seen a large influx of people taking up the game, either trying it for the first...
Alistair Tait Jul 3 Who’d be a Caddie? Who knows why Bryson DeChambeau and caddie Tim Tucker parted ways after three years and eight PGA Tour wins together, including last...
Alistair Tait Jul 1 Olympic No Shows Deserve Free Pass It’s a sign of these toxic times that a minority of golf fans have criticised Charley Hull for her decision to withdraw from this year’s...
Alistair Tait Jun 30 Open Golf Dreams Can Come True You only have to read Nicholas Poppleton’s tweet today to realise why so many enter Regional and Final Qualifying for the Open...
Alistair Tait Jun 29 Here’s to Glass Half Full Golfers The boundless optimism of players going through Open championship Regional and Final Qualifying has always been an equal source of...
Alistair Tait Jun 20 Where How Many Doesn't Matter One of the beauties of my other passion is there is no need to count strokes or stableford points. I don’t even have to worry about a...
Alistair Tait Jun 16 What Would Old Tom Morris Think of Golf Today? You have to wonder what Old Tom Morris would make of golf as it is today if he could be magically reincarnated and transported from his...
