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Alistair Tait

Jul 13

When Bradshaw bottled The Open

The entire island of Ireland celebrated Shane Lowry’s Open Championship victory at Royal Portrush two years ago. Quite right too. He...

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Jul 2

Haste ye Back Humble Bunker Rake

Amazing how we've taken the humble bunker rake for granted all these years. Other than wishing some golfers would take a crash course on...

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Jun 18

Hurray: No more library trips!

Expect TV viewing figures for PGA Tour events to shoot up when the Player Advisory Council ratifies the banning of green reading books...

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Jun 12

Bring on Bifurcation

When Peter Dawson was chief executive of the R&A, he asked for a show of hands from the assembled press on whether we thought the time...

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Jun 4

The Lewis & Carroll U.S. Women’s Open

Betsy Rawls didn’t really win the 1957 U.S. Women’s Open. She won it by default. Jackie Pung was the actual champion. Pung lost it on a...

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Jun 1

11 Golf Clubs? Yes Please!

Moe Norman would have won quite a few tournaments if the Rules of Golf dictated just three clubs never mind 14. Or even 11. All Moe would...

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May 21

A token gesture on slow play?

What do Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama, Guan Tianlang and John Catlin have in common? They’re the only three players in the last eight...

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May 18

Is golf's latest slow play remedy doomed?

The PGA of America makes history this week at Kiawah Island in the 103rd PGA Championship when it becomes the first major championship to...

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May 15

When Harrington forgot to sign his autograph

There are times when it’s difficult to explain how great this game of golf is to those who don’t play it. What happened before the final...

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Apr 24

Golf's defining factors

Former European Tour Chief Referee John Paramor might not have had to hand out so many basic rulings during his long, illustrious career...

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Apr 23

A radical Rules of Golf idea

Here’s a radical idea: Maybe anyone who wants to become a member of a professional golf tour should have to pass a Rules of Golf test....

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Apr 17

Where do stand on arm-lock putting?

Remember the furore Sam Torrance (above) created when he began using the long putter? Traditionalists were up in arms when the Scotsman...

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Apr 8

Can Long break Amateur Masters jinx?

You have to feel for England’s Joe Long as he prepares to realise a lifelong dream of teeing it up in the Masters. Long isn’t even close...

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Apr 5

The tortoises are getting tardier

Not that we really needed to be told today's tour professionals are slow, but there’s surely a problem when the caddie of one of the...

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Mar 22

Time for golf to institute a shot clock

It’s debatable what was more impressive about Matt Jones’s Honda Classic victory: the way he handled the tough conditions that plagued...

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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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Mar 9

“Aye, there’s the rub”

Twenty-seventh February 1991 and Ian Woosnam and Peter Baker are grinding it out on Golf D’Esterel’s practice range in Latitudes Saint...

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Mar 1

No library trips please

Can you imagine how many friends you’d have left to play golf with if you had to make a trip to the library before every putt? Not many....

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Feb 27

Meet the new golf rules boss Annika...

Of course the penalty shot wrongly applied to Annika Sorenstam couldn’t be rescinded. Not under the new, easier to read, simplified rules...

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Feb 15

Simple golf rules? Don't be simple

So much for the simplification of the Rules of Golf. They didn’t seem so simple in the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am....

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It's A Dodd's Life

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A Family Affair For Gough Brothers

John Gough’s eyes went straight to one name when he lifted the English Amateur Championship trophy at Moortown yesterday. The name...

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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...