My Heart’s Back In The Highlands
I’ve cleaned and waterproofed my climbing boots. Got the map and compass ready. Knapsack is packed with fleece, woolly hat, gloves, rain...
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Alistair Tait
Aug 8, 2021
Wonderful Woodhall Spa
Woodhall Spa’s Hotchkin course lulls you into a false sense of security. You stand on the tees of the opening nine and the fairways...
Alistair Tait
Jul 31, 2021
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 25, 2021
Spoilt For English Inland Golf Choice
Television pictures of the Senior Open Championship over the Old Course at Sunningdale are a joy to behold. A (senior) major being played...
Alistair Tait
Jul 23, 2021
Sage Words From Super Senior Langer
The old boys playing in this week’s Senior Open Championship on Sunningdale’s Old Course can’t believe their luck. They’re playing on one...
Alistair Tait
Jul 19, 2021
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 14, 2021
Quintessential Links Golf
Stand on the hill to the left of the par-3, 6th hole, The Maiden, at Royal St George’s and behold. Stretched before you, seemingly as far...
Alistair Tait
Jul 9, 2021
Glorious Ganton
GANTON, England – Call me nostalgic, but I long for the days when European Tour events were held on classic courses like Ganton Golf...
Alistair Tait
Jun 17, 2021
Don't Doom Don Valley
Don Valley Golf Course was just seven stops on the Toronto Subway system from where I lived on Asquith Avenue near the busy intersection...
Alistair Tait
May 27, 2021
Golf can’t blow it this time
The numbers are staggering, but will they hold? Will golf take advantage of the unexpected increased interest in the game because of...
Alistair Tait
May 12, 2021
When will golf hit the 8,000 yard mark?
Considering the PGA of America has just announced Kiawah Island Golf Resort's Ocean Course will measure 7,876 yards for next week’s PGA...
Alistair Tait
May 2, 2021
Golf hell has begun to freeze over
Is it any wonder outsiders look at this auld game of golf and think it’s still stuck in the Middle Ages when they see headlines like:...
Alistair Tait
Apr 25, 2021
English expectations
How many of us have been daydreaming of returning to golf courses we know and love once this Covid-19 nightmare comes to an end? I have....
Alistair Tait
Apr 7, 2021
Mary Poppins and The Masters
Get ready for four days of superlatives. Grass so green, water so blue, pictures so beautiful you’ll think they’ve been photoshopped....
Alistair Tait
Mar 18, 2021
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...
Alistair Tait
Feb 26, 2021
No banter in the Broadacre – again
The WhatsApp conversation finally took a turn for the worse yesterday at precisely 18:52, snuffing out vague hopes of getting back to a...
Alistair Tait
Feb 20, 2021
Yet another fight for municipal golf
Four thousand, two hundred and seventy-three people had signed the petition when I started this blog. One Ryder Cup hero had signed, with...
Alistair Tait
Jan 25, 2021
My heart's in the highlands
No surprise my heart's in the highlands on this day of all days. Like all Scots, I'll be celebrating Burns Night tonight, albeit a wee...
Alistair Tait
Jan 20, 2021
Who’ll fight for public golf courses?
Interesting piece in Global Golf Post’s International edition this week on a stushie taking place in Australia over public golf courses....
Alistair Tait
Jan 15, 2021
Municipal golf still matters
Interesting article by Martin Dempster in today’s Scotsman which bodes well for our game. New figures seem to reinforce the theory that...
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