A golf itch that needs scratching
Yesterday afternoon was tough for a lover of this stick and ball game. The afternoon walk with my wife, youngest daughter and, of course,...
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Alistair Tait
Feb 20, 2021
Yet another fight for municipal golf
Four thousand, two hundred and seventy-three people had signed the petition when I started this blog. One Ryder Cup hero had signed, with...
Alistair Tait
Feb 19, 2021
Golf history for sale to the highest bidder
The Los Angeles Open sounds far more intriguing to watch than the Genesis Invitational. The former sounds like a golf tournament, the...
Alistair Tait
Feb 18, 2021
No Walkover Cup please
Get ready for the return of the Walkover Cup. That’s what the 48th biennial match between the United States and Great Britain & Ireland,...
Alistair Tait
Feb 17, 2021
Will Whan work more wonders?
New golf administrator stories aren’t usually exciting to write about, but Mike Whan’s appointment as chief executive of the United...
Alistair Tait
Feb 16, 2021
The LET bandwagon starts rolling
Official golf partnership announcements don’t normally warrant a second glance, but the Ladies European Tour put out news of one...
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 14, 2021
Enthusiastic golf lovers only, please
The success or failure of the R&A’s proposed community golf facility at Lethamhill in Glasgow rests on many things, much of it measurable...
Alistair Tait
Feb 13, 2021
New schedule, new LET hope
Hard to believe the Ladies European Tour has just announced a record-breaking 2021 schedule consisting of 27 tournaments in 19 different...
Alistair Tait
Feb 12, 2021
Creating Cotton's dream?
Sir Henry Cotton must be smiling in that great clubhouse in the sky following the R&A’s decision to go ahead with a new community golf...
Alistair Tait
Feb 11, 2021
Fingers crossed for Annika
Watching Arnold Palmer play in the 1994 PGA Championship at Southern Hills was slightly depressing. He hit driver, 4-wood to the par-4,...
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...
Alistair Tait
Feb 9, 2021
Popov takes one for posterity
Let’s just say Sophia Popov has taken one for the team. Too bad the team can’t repay the favour. The LPGA has instituted some new rules...
Alistair Tait
Feb 7, 2021
Here’s to the overachievers
We all love David and Goliath sports stories, the supposedly weaker athlete overcoming the odds to stand tall among giants. That’s why...
Alistair Tait
Feb 6, 2021
Who cares about the .1%?
Meghan MacLaren asks an interesting question in her latest blog, one that’s very easy to answer. “When we talk about ‘golf’, do we refer...
Alistair Tait
Feb 5, 2021
Surely enough is enough, Rory?
Eduardo Romero led the European Tour’s driving distance table in 1989, the year Rory McIlroy was born. The Argentinean averaged 276 yards...
Alistair Tait
Feb 4, 2021
Remembering Payne Stewart
Never meet your heroes is an adage many who go into sports writing know only too well. The completion of this sentence is allegedly “lest...
Alistair Tait
Feb 3, 2021
Paving the way for bifurcation
After years procrastination over the B word – no, not Bryson DeChambeau – golf’s governing bodies seem set to introduce bifurcation to...
Alistair Tait
Feb 2, 2021
The French Open deserves better
First the good news: the French Open is back on the European Tour schedule. Now the bad news: it's a shadow of its former self. That’s a...
Alistair Tait
Feb 1, 2021
In praise of the 99%
What do Darren Clarke and Brian Davis have in common? They represent the 99% of professional golfers who play with honesty, integrity and...
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