The "Magical" Life of Renton Laidlaw
It wasn’t easy breaking into the world of golf writing when I first started out. Thankfully, people like Renton Laidlaw and a few others...
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Alistair Tait
Oct 12, 2021
What Golf Is All About
News that Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School has won the Waterloo County Secondary School Athletic Association Golf Championship...
Alistair Tait
Oct 10, 2021
Sometimes Life Just Gets In The Way
If you’d told me 20 years ago that Spain's Rafa Cabrera Bello would have more European Tour wins than countryman Pablo Martin, and a...
Alistair Tait
Oct 9, 2021
A Golf Club Love Affair
Like all great love affairs, it was fantastic while it lasted. But the affection we had for one another didn’t last and we slowly drifted...
Alistair Tait
Oct 8, 2021
A Golf Match Too Far?
Was the whole Bryson versus Brooks feud a complete con? An elaborate hoax to drum up interest in The Match? You can’t blame cynics for...
Alistair Tait
Oct 7, 2021
The Spanish Open Deserves Better
Well done Jon Rahm for turning up to play in his home open, this week’s Spanish Open, or the Acciona Open de España presented by Madrid...
Alistair Tait
Oct 6, 2021
Another Step Towards Golf Equality
As Rancho Mirage (above) prepares to fade into the background as a major championship venue, women’s golf takes yet another step towards...
Alistair Tait
Oct 5, 2021
How Do We Measure Golf Success?
Thanks to former colleague Adam Schupak for settling a 19th hole discussion at Woburn Golf Club yesterday. The topic? Who has won the...
Alistair Tait
Oct 3, 2021
Europe’s Ryder Cup Imbalance
Math isn’t my strong point, but I come up with 11–4. That’s soon to reach 13–4 by the 2025 Ryder Cup, and perhaps 14-4 by 2027, if the...
Alistair Tait
Oct 2, 2021
A Vicarious Thrill
Yesterday I mused on children of legendary sportspeople trying hard to fill their parents shoes. Today I’m turning the tables: what’s it...
Alistair Tait
Oct 1, 2021
Living Up To A Legend
You have to feel a wee bit for Javier Ballesteros playing in this week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. No doubt the young man is...
Alistair Tait
Sep 30, 2021
No Hiding Places For Harrington
In time honoured tradition, Steve Stricker is being hailed as a great Ryder Cup captain while aspersions are being cast on Padraig...
Alistair Tait
Sep 29, 2021
Predict Ryder Cups at Your Peril
There seems to be no point playing the 2023 Ryder Cup. Listen to prognosticators who’ve stared into their crystal balls and the United...
Alistair Tait
Sep 28, 2021
They Can’t All Be Ryder Cup Captain
Lee Westwood will captain the next European Ryder Cup team in Rome. I didn’t make this statement up. It seems to be accepted fact. Here’s...
Alistair Tait
Sep 27, 2021
Ryder Cups Are All About Putting
Europe shouldn’t push the panic button after losing the Ryder Cup, even if it was the heaviest defeat in the modern era. Europe just...
Alistair Tait
Sep 25, 2021
What Would Bobby Jones Think?
Well done Jordan Spieth for taking some American fans to task for booing Europe’s Ryder Cup men yesterday. Sadly, it won’t stop the same...
Alistair Tait
Sep 24, 2021
The Man Behind The Ryder Cup
The world of golf should rejoice that Samuel Ryder wasn’t the healthiest man in England around the turn of 20th century. Had he been a...
Alistair Tait
Sep 23, 2021
Out Of The Shadows Come Heroes
Who’ll live up to Sam Torrance’s 2002 proclamation and shine for Europe in this year’s Ryder Cup? Will there be a Phillip Price...
Alistair Tait
Sep 22, 2021
Tony Jacklin’s Ryder Cup Legacy
The spirit of Seve Ballesteros is in evidence in every Ryder Cup Europe now plays. Images of the great man are never far away. Quite...
Alistair Tait
Sep 21, 2021
Golf’s Greatest Shot?
There is no plaque to commemorate probably the best shot ever hit in the Ryder Cup, arguably the greatest shot in golf. No television...
Alistair Tait
Sep 19, 2021
Broberg Ends Six Years of Hell
Six years ago, a friend and I were walking around Woburn Golf Club’s Marquess course during the 2015 British Masters Matt Fitzpatrick...
Alistair Tait
Sep 19, 2021
Spraying It Off The Tee
With so much on my mind and so many possible subjects to write about ahead of the Ryder Cup, I’ve decided on a scatter gun approach this...
Alistair Tait
Sep 18, 2021
Heavenly Hankley Common
There was I thinking West Lancs Golf Club was the most underrated course in England only to spend three days tramping around Hankley...
Alistair Tait
Sep 17, 2021
What Hope For The Hankley Hopefuls?
Forty four excellent amateur golfers are teeing it up this week at Hankley Common Golf in the R&A Home Internationals. With the exception...
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