Hallelujah Moment For Golf’s 99%
Yesterday’s R&A and USGA roll back the golf ball announcement spells good news for the vast majority of the world’s golfers. The proposal...
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Alistair Tait
Mar 2, 2023
Now What For the Strategic Alliance?
Where does the PGA Tour’s strategic alliance partner, the European Tour, feature in its planned schedule changes for 2024? Afterthought...
Alistair Tait
Feb 23, 2023
Full Swing or Full PR?
You have to wonder if PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan was the real director of the eight-part Netflix Series “Full Swing”. As a public...
Alistair Tait
Feb 18, 2023
“Quite simply, JP was the Tour.”
European golf has lost one of its all-time greats. John Paramor (pictured above right) has gone to that great rules office in the sky....
Alistair Tait
Feb 10, 2023
The Crushing Weight of Expectation
You have to marvel at elite professionals such as Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Annika Sorenstam, Jack Nicklaus, Inbee Park, Ben Hogan, Juli...
Alistair Tait
Feb 2, 2023
Does Oman spell trouble for Euro Tour?
Anyone seen next week’s fields for the Asian Tour’s International Tour Series Oman and the European Tour’s Singapore Classic? Both are...
Alistair Tait
Jan 24, 2023
Golf On Prescription? Yes Please!
Imagine going to your GP, telling the doctor you’re feeling a bit under the weather, demotivated, overweight, a little depressed and...
Alistair Tait
Jan 19, 2023
A Crux Year For The European Tour?
How will the 2023 European Tour season be remembered by golf historians 100 years from now? As the year the tour grew to bigger heights...
Alistair Tait
Jan 10, 2023
Can Hero Cup Provide Ryder Reality?
I hope this week’s Seve Trophy, sorry, Hero Cup provides inspiration for Europe to go on and win the Ryder Cup in September. I’m not so...
Alistair Tait
Jan 2, 2023
RIP Baz Lane – One of The Good Guys
Barry Lane climbed up on to the disused shed and walk along the single beam that was the apex of the small building at Downshire Golf...
Alistair Tait
Dec 21, 2022
Fitzpatrick Deserves More Respect
Add Matt Fitzpatrick’s name to the list of British golfers who haven’t received the respect they deserve, a list that includes Catriona...
Alistair Tait
Dec 14, 2022
Golf: The Game We Just Can’t Quit
Interesting comments on Tiger Woods from Colin Montgomerie on the Bunkered.com podcast. The eight-time European Tour order of merit...
Alistair Tait
Nov 30, 2022
Golf's Misnomer Of The Year?
Stand at the top of Ben Hope on a sunny day and the 360 degree view is a glorious vista of seeming nothingness. Bogs, lochans, rivers,...
Alistair Tait
Nov 21, 2022
Rory Takes The Road Less Travelled
You won’t get many golf fans unhappy at Rory McIlroy ending the season as European number one, winning the Harry Vardon Trophy for a...
Alistair Tait
Nov 16, 2022
Where Golf Dreams Die?
The former Ryder Cup player played the 18th hole at San Roque the way I might have played it. Badly. Obviously not because of lack of...
Alistair Tait
Nov 1, 2022
Has Valderrama Said A Sad Adios?
Remember when LIV Golf had no players, no tournaments, no courses, and seemingly no hope – that didn’t age well, did it? Now, as I hinted...
Alistair Tait
Oct 22, 2022
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...
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...
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