Route 60s to professional success
Will Zalatoris’s runner-up in the Masters was touted as part of the youth movement taking over golf, despite the recent success of near...
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Alistair Tait
Apr 21, 2021
Is there no end to golf’s obsession with money?
Amazing that football’s proposed European Super League was on the verge of collapse on the same day news leaked the PGA Tour has created...
Alistair Tait
Apr 20, 2021
Farewell Rhino, last of the old school
Many reading this won’t have heard of Gavin Christie, who has departed to that great practice range in the sky aged 79 after succumbing...
Alistair Tait
Apr 18, 2021
The road less travelled to golf success
What was it Robert Frost said about taking the road less travelled making all the difference? American John Catlin has done just that and...
Alistair Tait
Apr 18, 2021
Welcome back Lydia Ko
Lydia Ko is a popular figure at Woburn Golf Club. I suspect she’s a popular figure at many golf clubs that have hosted women’s...
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 16, 2021
Educate to accumulate
England Golf’s decision to run overseas squads to support players who choose to study in American colleges is welcome news and long...
Alistair Tait
Apr 15, 2021
Can literature improve your golf?
A wee internet search of the life and times of Saul Bellow doesn’t unearth any predilection for golf. Same goes for John Banville, Terry...
Alistair Tait
Apr 14, 2021
Facts matter in battle for golf equality
Woman & Golf editor Emma Ballard hits the nail right on its proverbial head with her first editorial for the publication: facts matter in...
Alistair Tait
Apr 13, 2021
How low would you go?
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by the controversy surrounding Wayne Player’s gratuitous use of Lee Elder’s historic honorary starter...
Alistair Tait
Apr 12, 2021
MacIntyre must go west after Masters magic
Robert MacIntyre’s first serious stint at competing in the United States didn’t go well. The Scot has made a fantastic fist of his second...
Alistair Tait
Apr 11, 2021
The pride that drives José María Olazábal
José María Olazábal seemed to stand six inches taller. The look of defiance on his face was the mother of all don’t mess with me stares....
Alistair Tait
Apr 10, 2021
Will Rory McIlroy win the Masters?
Hard to believe Rory McIlroy won’t even get the chance at winning this year’s Masters, that we’re still waiting for him to slip on a...
Alistair Tait
Apr 9, 2021
Golf's distance debate at crucial crossroads
When the green jackets of Augusta National talk, the governing bodies listen. You can bet the R&A and USGA were listening intently to...
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 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
Apr 6, 2021
Weaver’s Masters tears
Drew Weaver broke down as soon as he stepped out of the scorer’s hut. He did something he’d never done on a golf course before – he...
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
Apr 4, 2021
Thanks for the memories Jock
Jock MacVicar never married. There was no room in his life for a wife. He was wedded to the game of golf. Angus Jock MacVicar passed away...
Alistair Tait
Apr 3, 2021
WHY?
After two rounds back from lockdown it feels as if I’ve never played golf before. Like I’ve had an arm transplant: the ones I have no...
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