Alistair Tait 3 hours ago Tony Jacklin’s Ryder Cup Legacy The spirit of Seve Ballesteros is in evidence in every Ryder Cup Europe now plays. Images of the great man are never far away. Quite...
Alistair Tait a day ago Golf’s Greatest Shot? There is no plaque to commemorate probably the best shot ever hit in the Ryder Cup, arguably the greatest shot in golf. No television...
Alistair Tait 3 days ago Spraying It Off The Tee With so much on my mind and so many possible subjects to write about ahead of the Ryder Cup, I’ve decided on a scatter gun approach this...
Alistair Tait 6 days ago Still Confused About Tennis Yesterday’s blog on why tennis gets so much coverage as opposed to golf elicited numerous responses, many of them well-thought out....
Alistair Tait Sep 15 Why Tennis And Not Golf? Emma Raducanu is quite rightly getting rave reviews for winning her first major tennis title at the tender age of 18, and making history...
Alistair Tait Sep 10 Points Matter, Not Personalities Let’s hope Steve Stricker knows what’s he’s doing by leaving Patrick Reed out of the United States Ryder Cup team. Stricker must be...
Alistair Tait Sep 9 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 Sep 6 Money Doesn’t Always Matter Sometimes money just doesn’t matter. That’s certainly been the case over the last two days. The Tour Championship or the Solheim Cup? Put...
Alistair Tait Sep 3 Golf Greed Or Glory? Two big tournaments are being staged in America this weekend. One is for glory, the other is all about pure greed. One comes with a...
Alistair Tait Aug 25 Has the Covid-19 Golf Bubble Burst? Interesting story in today’s The Golf Business on a drop off in golf participation numbers following the unexpected silver lining the...
Alistair Tait Aug 12 Still Talking About Golf Snails It’s 2021 and we’re still talking about slow play in professional golf. Sigh… I’m guessing we’ll still be talking about slow play in...
Alistair Tait Aug 7 Why Golf Belongs In The Olympics Former colleague Beth Ann Nichols poses an interesting question regarding golf in the Olympic Games: “Can’t imagine there are still...
Alistair Tait Aug 5 The Glorious Triumph Of Hope If we broke a leg every time we went skiing, there’s a good chance our skiing careers wouldn’t last too long. Just a couple of trips to...
Alistair Tait Aug 3 It's A Dodd's Life Good article in this week’s Global Golf Post by Lewine Mair on recent Senior Open Champion Stephen Dodd. If you think the stereotype of...
Alistair Tait Aug 1 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 Jul 31 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 Jul 30 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 29 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 Jul 28 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...
