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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Alistair Tait
Jun 18, 2021
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...
Alistair Tait
Jun 12, 2021
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...
Alistair Tait
Jun 4, 2021
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...
Alistair Tait
Jun 1, 2021
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...
Alistair Tait
May 21, 2021
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...
Alistair Tait
May 18, 2021
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...
Alistair Tait
May 15, 2021
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...
Alistair Tait
Apr 24, 2021
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...
Alistair Tait
Apr 23, 2021
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....
Alistair Tait
Apr 17, 2021
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...
Alistair Tait
Apr 8, 2021
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...
Alistair Tait
Apr 5, 2021
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...
Alistair Tait
Mar 22, 2021
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...
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
Mar 9, 2021
“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...
Alistair Tait
Mar 1, 2021
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....
Alistair Tait
Feb 27, 2021
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...
Alistair Tait
Feb 15, 2021
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....
Alistair Tait
Feb 9, 2021
Ha, ha, bloody ha to DMDS
Watching this year’s PGA Championship from Kiawah Island should be a joy after the PGA of America endorsed the use of distance-measuring...
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