The Worst Ruling In Golf History?
Tiger Woods is naturally hogging all the headlines in this week’s Masters. It was the same nine years ago when arguably the worst ruling...
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Alistair Tait
Apr 7, 2022
Hoping Shepherd Can Tame Augusta
Laird Shepherd had to dig deep to win last year’s Amateur Championship. He ran out an unlikely winner at Nairn Golf Club, coming from...
Alistair Tait
Apr 4, 2022
A Women’s Masters At Last?
What are the odds on Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley announcing a Women’s Masters when he holds his traditional press conference on...
Alistair Tait
Mar 31, 2022
Rule Change Will Make Golf Easier
Paul Casey has done golf aficionados the world over a huge favour thanks to his freak incident in the final round of the Players...
Alistair Tait
Mar 30, 2022
The Weight Of Expectation
Most of us have never experienced the weight of expectation, not to the extent gifted athletes, gifted golfers, deal with it on a...
Alistair Tait
Mar 28, 2022
Reading Greens Isn’t Rocket Science
Let me be completely upfront right from the off: I have no issues with the AimPoint method of reading greens. However, I fear it might...
Alistair Tait
Mar 25, 2022
Pass The Vaseline, Please!
No, the headline isn’t referring to some tawdry bedroom activity. Petroleum jelly will be needed exactly one month from today to stop...
Alistair Tait
Mar 24, 2022
A Simple Call for Golf Equity
It hasn’t taken long this season for this great game of golf to throw up Rules of Golf incidents that have players, caddies, spectators...
Alistair Tait
Mar 21, 2022
The Lost Art of Match Play Golf?
Who’s the best match play golfer that ever lived? The question popped up on Sky Sports Golf last night, as Messrs Rob Lee, Mark Roe and...
Alistair Tait
Mar 16, 2022
Has Pelley Backed The Wrong Pony?
So now we know the details of the new Saudi Golf Super League thanks to The Daily Telegraph’s excellent golf reporter James Corrigan...
Alistair Tait
Mar 14, 2022
McClymont Deserves Curtis Cup Call
If Scotland’s Lorna McClymont represents Great Britain & Ireland in this year’s Curtis Cup, which she has an excellent chance of doing,...
Alistair Tait
Mar 12, 2022
Student Tour Series Fills Important Gap
The R&A couldn’t have asked for a better ending to the R&A Student Tour Series – Spain. Playoffs were need to determine the men’s and...
Alistair Tait
Mar 7, 2022
Goldilocks Golfers
Is there another sport like golf, where its adherents resemble Goldielocks? I think not. This golf course is too hard, this one too soft...
Alistair Tait
Mar 3, 2022
Matching Obscenity With Obscenity
Imagine earning a seven-figure cheque just for being popular. How about earning $8 million even though you only worked one week of the...
Alistair Tait
Mar 2, 2022
No Way Back For Phil? Think Again
I had to laugh after reading a recent article asking how/if Phil Mickelson can make a successful return to the game from his latest...
Alistair Tait
Feb 25, 2022
No Brave New Golf World
One thing seems self-evident from the PGA Tour’s decision to ban players from joining a proposed new golf league: there won’t be a world...
Alistair Tait
Feb 24, 2022
Another Call To Curb The Golf Ball
Patrick Cantlay doesn’t look like the sort of person you’d want to sit down and have a blether with over a libation. The six-time PGA...
Alistair Tait
Feb 21, 2022
Golf’s Unedifying Power Struggle
“Unedifying.” That’s the word that springs to mind surrounding the power struggle currently taking place in professional golf. And many...
Alistair Tait
Feb 18, 2022
Golf Journal Or Horrible Histories?
Interesting suggestion in Gary Nicol and Karl Morris’ excellent book The Lost Art of the Short Game. However, you’ll have to go a bit old...
Alistair Tait
Feb 16, 2022
Bland Deserves Honourable Mention
Let’s be clear, Jon Rahm is a far better golf than Richard Bland. The Spaniard is certainly worthy of the 2021 Seve Ballesteros Award as...
Alistair Tait
Feb 14, 2022
The Open To Go Full Phoenix?
The R&A is said to be considering radical changes to this year’s 150th Open Championship over the Old Course at St Andrews following the...
Alistair Tait
Feb 12, 2022
Top Marks For R&A Student Tour Series
Very few playing the R&A Student Tour Series will make it to the European Tour or Ladies European Tour. That could change in future if...
Alistair Tait
Feb 10, 2022
Europe's Toughest Golf Course?
The late Robert Trent Jones Snr must have been in a bad mood when he designed Tróia Golf Resort on the Tróia Peninsula south of...
Alistair Tait
Feb 8, 2022
Good Things Come To Those Who...
The traditional ending to the headline is obviously “wait,” but the words work hard, persevere and keep believing apply too. That’s...
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