More love for English Roses
Take a bow Justin and Kate Rose. You are a credit to this royal & ancient game. The image of tour professionals is often one of greed and...
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Alistair Tait
Apr 1, 2021
How to throw like a golf pro
It could have been the greatest golf magazine front cover ever, and the best instructional piece ever ran in the history of golf...
Alistair Tait
Mar 31, 2021
Does nature or nurture create golf champions?
An excellent article in this week’s edition of Global Golf Post has me wondering if nature or nurture is what it takes to create a...
Alistair Tait
Mar 30, 2021
Mission impossible for GB&I?
Alex Fitzpatrick and Sandy Scott will spearhead Great Britain & Ireland’s hopes of winning the Walker Cup at Seminole Golf Club 8-9 of...
Alistair Tait
Mar 28, 2021
When golf becomes a real turn off
I didn’t make it to the end of the final day’s WGC–Dell Technologies Match Play telecast from Austin, Texas. I’ve got better things to do...
Alistair Tait
Mar 28, 2021
Never weaken the strong to strengthen the weak
The headline is an oft quoted line from Bob Torrance. The legendary Scottish golf coach repeated it to every player he ever worked with....
Alistair Tait
Mar 27, 2021
Winning isn’t the only measure of success
Scotland’s Callum Hill was left frustrated with a third place finish in the Kenya Savannah Classic. Imagine how David Drysdale felt as he...
Alistair Tait
Mar 26, 2021
Tyrrell needs to tame his tantrums
If you or I acted like Tyrrell Hatton on the golf course we’d be hauled up before the committee and told to smarten up or else. We might...
Alistair Tait
Mar 24, 2021
Ian Poulter's way: "Be respectful but ruthless"
Charley Hull and Lauren Taylor once received a valuable lesson on the art of match play from Ian Poulter that goes a long way to...
Alistair Tait
Mar 24, 2021
Old fashioned match play golf please
Match play tournaments are normally fairly simple. Unless it’s a team competition like the Ryder, Solheim, Curtis or Walker Cup, you...
Alistair Tait
Mar 23, 2021
Hail the American Golf Championships
And the United States leads the series 57-29, leaving the rest of the world with a lot of catching up to do. Most experts predict it will...
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 21, 2021
Rebooting the golfing brain
This blog is being written on a brand-new laptop. After 11 years, my faithful old MacBook Pro has been consigned to that great computer...
Alistair Tait
Mar 20, 2021
A golden age for Irish golf?
Hands up if you can name an Irish major winner? That didn’t take long. Even non-golf fans could have come up with Rory McIlroy in the...
Alistair Tait
Mar 19, 2021
Payback time for Westwood
Lee Westwood is one of two world top 20 players teeing it up in this week’s Honda Classic. Defending champion Sunjae Im is the other. The...
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 17, 2021
And you think caddying is easy…
Imagine losing your dream golf job for the mere slip of a towel. Or your boss makes a colossal cock up and you get the sack. Welcome to...
Alistair Tait
Mar 16, 2021
What happens when the old golf normal returns?
What happens when the old golf normal returns to replace the new normal? Will golf still be in as healthy a state as it seems to be right...
Alistair Tait
Mar 15, 2021
R.I.P. Rodney "Mucker" Wooler
All golf writers quickly discover that sometimes it’s not the player who’s the more interesting character of any golfer/caddie duo. Often...
Alistair Tait
Mar 14, 2021
Cash must be king for Dustin Johnson
Maybe Dustin Johnson should have a wee chat with Padraig Harrington. The world number one might just change his mind about skipping the...
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