Make golf predictions at your peril
Brandon Stone is a seminal lesson that success can be fleeting for all but golf’s elite. He also serves as a reminder that it often...
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Alistair Tait
Apr 23, 2021
A radical Rules of Golf idea
Here’s a radical idea: Maybe anyone who wants to become a member of a professional golf tour should have to pass a Rules of Golf test....
Alistair Tait
Apr 22, 2021
Route 60s to professional success
Will Zalatoris’s runner-up in the Masters was touted as part of the youth movement taking over golf, despite the recent success of near...
Alistair Tait
Apr 21, 2021
Is there no end to golf’s obsession with money?
Amazing that football’s proposed European Super League was on the verge of collapse on the same day news leaked the PGA Tour has created...
Alistair Tait
Apr 18, 2021
The road less travelled to golf success
What was it Robert Frost said about taking the road less travelled making all the difference? American John Catlin has done just that and...
Alistair Tait
Apr 17, 2021
Where do stand on arm-lock putting?
Remember the furore Sam Torrance (above) created when he began using the long putter? Traditionalists were up in arms when the Scotsman...
Alistair Tait
Apr 12, 2021
MacIntyre must go west after Masters magic
Robert MacIntyre’s first serious stint at competing in the United States didn’t go well. The Scot has made a fantastic fist of his second...
Alistair Tait
Apr 7, 2021
Mary Poppins and The Masters
Get ready for four days of superlatives. Grass so green, water so blue, pictures so beautiful you’ll think they’ve been photoshopped....
Alistair Tait
Apr 6, 2021
Weaver’s Masters tears
Drew Weaver broke down as soon as he stepped out of the scorer’s hut. He did something he’d never done on a golf course before – he...
Alistair Tait
Apr 5, 2021
The tortoises are getting tardier
Not that we really needed to be told today's tour professionals are slow, but there’s surely a problem when the caddie of one of the...
Alistair Tait
Mar 28, 2021
When golf becomes a real turn off
I didn’t make it to the end of the final day’s WGC–Dell Technologies Match Play telecast from Austin, Texas. I’ve got better things to do...
Alistair Tait
Mar 28, 2021
Never weaken the strong to strengthen the weak
The headline is an oft quoted line from Bob Torrance. The legendary Scottish golf coach repeated it to every player he ever worked with....
Alistair Tait
Mar 26, 2021
Tyrrell needs to tame his tantrums
If you or I acted like Tyrrell Hatton on the golf course we’d be hauled up before the committee and told to smarten up or else. We might...
Alistair Tait
Mar 24, 2021
Ian Poulter's way: "Be respectful but ruthless"
Charley Hull and Lauren Taylor once received a valuable lesson on the art of match play from Ian Poulter that goes a long way to...
Alistair Tait
Mar 24, 2021
Old fashioned match play golf please
Match play tournaments are normally fairly simple. Unless it’s a team competition like the Ryder, Solheim, Curtis or Walker Cup, you...
Alistair Tait
Mar 23, 2021
Hail the American Golf Championships
And the United States leads the series 57-29, leaving the rest of the world with a lot of catching up to do. Most experts predict it will...
Alistair Tait
Mar 22, 2021
Time for golf to institute a shot clock
It’s debatable what was more impressive about Matt Jones’s Honda Classic victory: the way he handled the tough conditions that plagued...
Alistair Tait
Mar 19, 2021
Payback time for Westwood
Lee Westwood is one of two world top 20 players teeing it up in this week’s Honda Classic. Defending champion Sunjae Im is the other. The...
Alistair Tait
Mar 18, 2021
It’s all relative in Padraig’s world
Interesting comments from Padraig Harrington ahead of this week’s Honda Classic. The Irishman isn’t sitting on the fence when it comes to...
Alistair Tait
Mar 17, 2021
And you think caddying is easy…
Imagine losing your dream golf job for the mere slip of a towel. Or your boss makes a colossal cock up and you get the sack. Welcome to...
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