Predict Ryder Cups at Your Peril
There seems to be no point playing the 2023 Ryder Cup. Listen to prognosticators who’ve stared into their crystal balls and the United...
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Alistair Tait
Sep 28, 2021
They Can’t All Be Ryder Cup Captain
Lee Westwood will captain the next European Ryder Cup team in Rome. I didn’t make this statement up. It seems to be accepted fact. Here’s...
Alistair Tait
Sep 27, 2021
Ryder Cups Are All About Putting
Europe shouldn’t push the panic button after losing the Ryder Cup, even if it was the heaviest defeat in the modern era. Europe just...
Alistair Tait
Sep 25, 2021
What Would Bobby Jones Think?
Well done Jordan Spieth for taking some American fans to task for booing Europe’s Ryder Cup men yesterday. Sadly, it won’t stop the same...
Alistair Tait
Sep 24, 2021
The Man Behind The Ryder Cup
The world of golf should rejoice that Samuel Ryder wasn’t the healthiest man in England around the turn of 20th century. Had he been a...
Alistair Tait
Sep 23, 2021
Out Of The Shadows Come Heroes
Who’ll live up to Sam Torrance’s 2002 proclamation and shine for Europe in this year’s Ryder Cup? Will there be a Phillip Price...
Alistair Tait
Sep 22, 2021
Tony Jacklin’s Ryder Cup Legacy
The spirit of Seve Ballesteros is in evidence in every Ryder Cup Europe now plays. Images of the great man are never far away. Quite...
Alistair Tait
Sep 21, 2021
Golf’s Greatest Shot?
There is no plaque to commemorate probably the best shot ever hit in the Ryder Cup, arguably the greatest shot in golf. No television...
Alistair Tait
Sep 19, 2021
Broberg Ends Six Years of Hell
Six years ago, a friend and I were walking around Woburn Golf Club’s Marquess course during the 2015 British Masters Matt Fitzpatrick...
Alistair Tait
Sep 19, 2021
Spraying It Off The Tee
With so much on my mind and so many possible subjects to write about ahead of the Ryder Cup, I’ve decided on a scatter gun approach this...
Alistair Tait
Sep 18, 2021
Heavenly Hankley Common
There was I thinking West Lancs Golf Club was the most underrated course in England only to spend three days tramping around Hankley...
Alistair Tait
Sep 17, 2021
What Hope For The Hankley Hopefuls?
Forty four excellent amateur golfers are teeing it up this week at Hankley Common Golf in the R&A Home Internationals. With the exception...
Alistair Tait
Sep 16, 2021
Still Confused About Tennis
Yesterday’s blog on why tennis gets so much coverage as opposed to golf elicited numerous responses, many of them well-thought out....
Alistair Tait
Sep 15, 2021
Why Tennis And Not Golf?
Emma Raducanu is quite rightly getting rave reviews for winning her first major tennis title at the tender age of 18, and making history...
Alistair Tait
Sep 14, 2021
The Real Heroes of Golf
It’s thank a greenkeeper day. Mark down Tuesday 14 September as the only day in 2021 when many golf club members say thank you to those...
Alistair Tait
Sep 12, 2021
What The Ryder Cup Means to Europe
How much does the Ryder Cup mean to European golfers? Shane Lowry’s above tweet upon receiving Padraig Harrington’s one Ryder Cup pick...
Alistair Tait
Sep 12, 2021
Should Golf Courses Be Listed?
Should classic golf courses be listed in the way fine old houses are given Grade I, or Grade II listings to ensure they retain the...
Alistair Tait
Sep 11, 2021
A Simple Ryder Cup Solution
Can you imagine telling Sir Alex Ferguson who his starting 11 was going to be when he was Manchester United manager? It just wouldn’t...
Alistair Tait
Sep 10, 2021
Points Matter, Not Personalities
Let’s hope Steve Stricker knows what’s he’s doing by leaving Patrick Reed out of the United States Ryder Cup team. Stricker must be...
Alistair Tait
Sep 9, 2021
Portrush Return A No Brainer
No one inside the game of golf was surprised yesterday when the R&A announced The Open would return to Royal Portrush in 2025, just six...
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