Alistair TaitJun 27Time For A Golf Shot Clock Lexi Thompson and Hye-Jin Choi were reportedly fined $2,000 for impersonating snails in the KPMG Women’s PGA final round at Congressional...
Alistair TaitApr 18Seeking Acronym For Frittelli FarceIt took me a while to pluck up the courage to ask what the letters SMH stood for. My nephew was sending them so often in WhatsApp...
Alistair TaitApr 9The Worst Ruling In Golf History?Tiger Woods is naturally hogging all the headlines in this week’s Masters. It was the same nine years ago when arguably the worst ruling...
Alistair TaitMar 31Rule Change Will Make Golf EasierPaul Casey has done golf aficionados the world over a huge favour thanks to his freak incident in the final round of the Players...
Alistair TaitMar 28Reading Greens Isn’t Rocket ScienceLet me be completely upfront right from the off: I have no issues with the AimPoint method of reading greens. However, I fear it might...
Alistair TaitMar 24A Simple Call for Golf EquityIt hasn’t taken long this season for this great game of golf to throw up Rules of Golf incidents that have players, caddies, spectators...
Alistair TaitJan 17It’s A Snail’s LifeStep forward Grayson Murray, my Golfer of the Month of January award winner. And he never even hit a shot. Murray clearly isn’t...
Alistair TaitJan 7What to Bank on in 2022 Tis the season to be making predictions if a trawl through the most popular golf websites is anything to go by. Seems every Thomas,...
Alistair TaitJan 4The 12 golfers of Christmas – The Selfish GitWelcome to another Christmas series highlighting characterisations of golfers we’ve all played with over the years. The series proved so...
Alistair TaitJan 3The 12 Golfers of Christmas – The CommentatorWelcome to another Christmas series highlighting characterisations of golfers we’ve all played with over the years. The series proved so...
Alistair TaitJan 2The 12 golfers of Christmas – The Rules OfficialWelcome to another Christmas series highlighting characterisations of golfers we’ve all played with over the years. The series proved so...
Alistair TaitDec 28, 2021The 12 Golfers of Christmas – The CheatWelcome to another Christmas series highlighting characterisations of golfers we’ve all played with over the years. The series proved so...
Alistair TaitDec 2, 2021Putting Skill & Artistry Back Into GolfWell done to the R&A and USGA for introducing a new Model Local Rule to ban players at the highest level from making several library...
Alistair TaitNov 24, 2021A Handicap Head ScratcherThe Rules of Golf are crystal clear when it comes to holing out in stroke play competitions. Rule 3.3c, Failure to Hole Out, states: “A...
Alistair TaitNov 3, 2021Library Cards Rescinded! Good news for all PGA Tour fans: rounds should speed up by about 18 minutes next season following the Tour’s decision to rescind the...
Alistair TaitOct 15, 2021How Would Arnie Have Acted, Phil?Bet the USGA now wish they’d disqualified Phil Mickelson after he hit a moving ball on Shinnecock's 13th green during the third round of...
Alistair TaitSep 5, 2021Doing Golf No FavoursWell, we learned one thing from the 17th Solheim Cup: rules of golf officials working the match do carry stop watches. More to the point,...
Alistair TaitJul 13, 2021When Bradshaw bottled The OpenThe entire island of Ireland celebrated Shane Lowry’s Open Championship victory at Royal Portrush two years ago. Quite right too. He...
Alistair TaitJul 2, 2021Haste ye Back Humble Bunker RakeAmazing how we've taken the humble bunker rake for granted all these years. Other than wishing some golfers would take a crash course on...
Alistair TaitJun 18, 2021Hurray: 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...