Time to Overhaul World Golf Ranking?
A wee look at the contrasting strength of fields for this week’s DP World Tour Championship and the PGA Tour’s RSM Classic will be grist...
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Alistair Tait
Oct 20, 2023
Mind the Major Golf Rankings Gap
Will the 2024 men’s major championships truly feature all the best players in the world, or just a selection of the world’s best players....
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
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 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...
Alistair Tait
Jan 23, 2022
Is Pieters Back To His Best?
As reappearing acts go, Thomas Pieters’s return to the limelight has been pretty good. Two wins in his last three tournaments suggests...
Alistair Tait
Nov 9, 2021
More Money Grab than Grow Golf
Ahmed Al musharrekh and amateur Ahmed Skaik share the plaudits as the top two United Arab Emirates players on the Official World Golf...
Alistair Tait
Nov 1, 2021
Time For Masters Meditation?
Well done Lucas Herbert on winning the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, the Australian’s first PGA Tour victory in just his 20th start...
Alistair Tait
Oct 17, 2021
Fitzpatrick Forecast Was So Wrong
Matt Fitzpatrick gave me one of the shortest work days of my golf writing career when he won the 2012 Boys Amateur Championship 10&8 over...
Alistair Tait
May 14, 2021
Golf was never meant to be fair
Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth are getting much publicity after recent wins to end long, winless droughts. Good for them, but for every...
Alistair Tait
May 3, 2021
The (almost) invisible side of golf
How many ordinary golf fans are aware the greatest team match in men’s amateur golf is taking place this week? How many actually care?...
Alistair Tait
Apr 28, 2021
Golf is becoming a popularity contest
If you didn’t think professional golf is becoming a popularity contest following the announcement of the PGA Tour’s obscene $40 million...
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