Turnberry can wait for The Open
Well done Martin Slumbers and the R&A for not making a knee-jerk reaction to remove Turnberry from the Open Championship rota after the...
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Alistair Tait
Jan 11, 2021
What now for Turnberry?
I feel for the staff at Trump Turnberry. I feel for staff at Trump Aberdeen. I feel for nearby businesses. I feel for the wee towns of...
Alistair Tait
Dec 22, 2020
Food for thought on course bucket lists
Visitors to Sunningdale Golf Club probably don’t give the wee course to the right of the Old Course’s fifth fairway a second thought....
Alistair Tait
Dec 19, 2020
Short and sweet at Sunningdale Heath
Sir Henry Cotton might have had Sunningdale Heath in mind when he called for short courses to help newcomers and children get into golf....
Alistair Tait
Nov 23, 2020
A waste of parliamentary time
Golf will be debated in parliament today. Seriously. Don’t politicians have better things to do with their time? Yes. We’re in ten midst...
Alistair Tait
Nov 4, 2020
Humbled at Hunstanton
Links golf finds you out more than the inland game, especially if your ball striking isn’t strong enough. Hunstanton found me out...
Alistair Tait
Oct 28, 2020
King’s course makes welcome return
Senior Tour players will be able to snub their noses up at their junior counterparts two years from now with the news that Gleneagles is...
Alistair Tait
Oct 24, 2020
Handicap heaven
There was joy and consternation in the clubhouse of Woburn Golf Club yesterday as fellow members discovered their predicted handicap on...
Alistair Tait
Oct 15, 2020
The death of par 5s?
Are par 5s obsolete? Perhaps not to you or I, but what about at the highest level of the game? Seems so according to Golf Digest’s Jerry...
Alistair Tait
Oct 8, 2020
Wentworth's East is best
The BMW PGA Championship is being held on Wentworth’s worst course. The West Course isn’t a patch on the East, the first course Harry...
Alistair Tait
Aug 21, 2020
Don't return Postage Stamp to sender
The world’s best women didn’t tear Royal Troon’s shortest hole asunder in the opening round of the AIG Women’s Open. The Postage Stamp...
Alistair Tait
Jul 27, 2020
No rakes, no excuses
Former European Tour pro Ricky Willison wants to start a campaign to get golfers to take better care of bunkers even if we can't use...
Alistair Tait
Jul 17, 2020
The Open’s lost links
Royal Portrush’s return to the Open Championship rota last year must’ve had members of other former Open venues pining to see the game’s...
Alistair Tait
Jun 22, 2020
The Machrie: quintessential links golf
Walter Hagen never did make it to The Machrie. Shame. That goes for anyone else who hasn’t played golf on Islay. Quite simply, The...
Alistair Tait
May 26, 2020
Get away from it all on Arran
The elderly man stuck his thumb out just after I left Shiskine Golf Club. Anywhere else in the world and I’d have driven on by. Not on...
Alistair Tait
May 22, 2020
Time to grab a golf gem
There’s never been a better time to play the numerous hidden gems dotted around the United Kingdom. Especially with the eye watering...
Alistair Tait
May 15, 2020
Save golf has to be the new mantra, not grow the game
Grow the game has been the mantra in golf for a long time. The coronavirus pandemic has changed that. The key now is to save the game, to...
Alistair Tait
Apr 30, 2020
Take the long and winding road to Machrihanish
You can get to Machrihanish a lot faster than Old Tom Morris did in 1879 when he agreed to improve Machrihanish Golf Club. However, to...
Alistair Tait
Apr 18, 2020
Wonderful West Lancs
How West Lancs managed to stay off my radar screen for so long is still a mystery. It’s somehow the forgotten links in the string of...
Alistair Tait
Apr 17, 2020
Why golf is where it is
As far as I know Mike Clayton and Guy Singh-Watson don’t know each other. They have a lot in common: they’re both trying to figure out...
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