Why Mini-Tour Golf Matters
So farewell PGA EuroPro Tour. After 20 years it is no more. Now what for future aspiring tour professionals hoping to gain a footing on...
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Alistair Tait
Oct 14, 2022
If One DP World Tour Domino Falls...
I wonder if European Tour sponsors are currently checking contracts, thinking it might be a good idea to jump ship and dump the old world...
Alistair Tait
Oct 6, 2022
Selling Off European Golf's Future?
Here’s a thought: Imagine Sir Alex Ferguson when he was Manchester United manager agreeing to reward some of his best young players by...
Alistair Tait
Oct 1, 2022
No Trickle Down For EuroPro Golf
It just got an awful lot harder for young British and Irish men to graduate to the European Tour. Welcome, boys, to what young British...
Alistair Tait
Sep 22, 2022
Fanciful French Open Feelings
Italian golf officials luxuriating in the success of last week’s Italian Open might want to check out this week’s French Open. It might...
Alistair Tait
Sep 12, 2022
The European Dis-Union
Shane Lowry won the BMW PGA Championship, pipping Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm to the title. They weren’t the real losers of the European...
Alistair Tait
Sep 3, 2022
Time To Right A Rankings Wrong
The strongest men's professional tournament being contested this weekend features 12 major champions with 22 trophies from the...
Alistair Tait
Aug 25, 2022
Yet Another Strategic Alliance Setback?
There surely has to a collective shaking of heads from European golf fans following Jay Monahan’s press conference ahead of this week’s...
Alistair Tait
Aug 15, 2022
Maybe Sergio Garcia is right
Maybe Sergio Garcia is right: Perhaps the European Tour, now the DP World Tour, is becoming the world’s fifth best circuit. Evidence from...
Alistair Tait
Aug 4, 2022
Davies’ Dream Comes True
There was a time when Laura Davies probably thought playing the AIG Women’s Open at Muirfield was just a pipe dream. That dream comes...
Alistair Tait
Jul 28, 2022
Golf Is a’Changin’ – Finally!
Remember when there was no Women’s Scottish Open? When the Ladies European Tour couldn’t find sponsors to put up prize money to stage...
Alistair Tait
Jul 26, 2022
Why The Saudi Double Standard?
Maybe LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan should be put in charge of all of professional golf. There might be less toxicity and more...
Alistair Tait
Jul 13, 2022
Waxing Lyrical About The Old Course
Ah, it’s that time of the golfing calendar again. An Open at St Andrews, when the plaudits roll thick and fast from the world’s top...
Alistair Tait
Jul 8, 2022
When Par Has No Meaning
DORNOCH, Scotland: Bobby Jones always claimed his main opponent in any round of golf wasn’t the player standing opposite him on the tee,...
Alistair Tait
Jul 6, 2022
How Did Golf Become So Toxic?
So much for golf being the honourable game, the royal and ancient pastime, a game for gentlemen and gentlewomen played by gentlemen and...
Alistair Tait
Jul 1, 2022
Open Glory, Not Filthy Lucre
There wasn’t much talk of the current state/mess of men’s professional golf in Open Championship Final Qualifying at Hollinwell (Notts...
Alistair Tait
Jun 27, 2022
Time For A Golf Shot Clock
Lexi Thompson and Hye-Jin Choi were reportedly fined $2,000 for impersonating snails in the KPMG Women’s PGA final round at Congressional...
Alistair Tait
Jun 23, 2022
More Arms Race Misery for Euro Tour?
Do you think PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan consulted “strategic alliance” partner Keith Pelley when he announced plans to splash even...
Alistair Tait
Jun 20, 2022
Fitzpatrick Aces Sir Henry Cotton's Test
Was Matthew Fitzpatrick up to the Sir Henry Cotton’s test? That was the question I asked myself 10 years ago when I watched him win the...
Alistair Tait
Jun 13, 2022
Big Questions for Strategic Alliance
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has laid his cards on the table. No PGA Tour play for the rebels who’ve jumped to the LIV Tour. Do not...
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