Senior Golf’s Time To Shine
American golfers have cleaned up at the Senior Amateur Championship through the years. Odds on an American winner at Ganton Golf Club...
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Alistair Tait
Jul 4, 2021
Golf’s Chrysalis Moment
The silver lining for golf as a result of Covid-19 has seen a large influx of people taking up the game, either trying it for the first...
Alistair Tait
Jul 2, 2021
Haste ye Back Humble Bunker Rake
Amazing how we've taken the humble bunker rake for granted all these years. Other than wishing some golfers would take a crash course on...
Alistair Tait
Jun 30, 2021
Open Golf Dreams Can Come True
You only have to read Nicholas Poppleton’s tweet today to realise why so many enter Regional and Final Qualifying for the Open...
Alistair Tait
Jun 29, 2021
Here’s to Glass Half Full Golfers
The boundless optimism of players going through Open championship Regional and Final Qualifying has always been an equal source of...
Alistair Tait
Jun 19, 2021
Still Waiting for a Home Winner
Have to admit a wee part of me was secretly hoping for Calum Scott to win the Amateur Championship at Nairn Golf Club. It's been a long...
Alistair Tait
Jun 18, 2021
Hurray: No more library trips!
Expect TV viewing figures for PGA Tour events to shoot up when the Player Advisory Council ratifies the banning of green reading books...
Alistair Tait
Jun 16, 2021
What Would Old Tom Morris Think of Golf Today?
You have to wonder what Old Tom Morris would make of golf as it is today if he could be magically reincarnated and transported from his...
Alistair Tait
Jun 15, 2021
Strange Things Happen in The Amateur
Whoever takes medallist honours in the Amateur Championship at Nairn Golf Club today might just want to dampen their expectations....
Alistair Tait
Jun 13, 2021
Time for Scottish Golf to Shine
Louise Duncan wasn’t even born the last time a Scottish player won the Women’s Amateur Championship. No wonder the Ayrshire native was...
Alistair Tait
Jun 12, 2021
Bring on Bifurcation
When Peter Dawson was chief executive of the R&A, he asked for a show of hands from the assembled press on whether we thought the time...
Alistair Tait
Jun 4, 2021
The Lewis & Carroll U.S. Women’s Open
Betsy Rawls didn’t really win the 1957 U.S. Women’s Open. She won it by default. Jackie Pung was the actual champion. Pung lost it on a...
Alistair Tait
May 31, 2021
Still waiting for women’s golf firsts
Christina McAnea’s words should ring true for all golf lovers. In a week in which we celebrate International Women’s Golf Day, her...
Alistair Tait
May 28, 2021
Golf can soothe the soul
It’s official: golf can have a positive impact on your well being. That’s the takeaway from the R&A’s Post Covid Opportunity Research as...
Alistair Tait
May 27, 2021
Golf can’t blow it this time
The numbers are staggering, but will they hold? Will golf take advantage of the unexpected increased interest in the game because of...
Alistair Tait
May 12, 2021
When will golf hit the 8,000 yard mark?
Considering the PGA of America has just announced Kiawah Island Golf Resort's Ocean Course will measure 7,876 yards for next week’s PGA...
Alistair Tait
May 11, 2021
Who’ll excel from the class of ‘21?
Ask many who’ve appeared in the Walker Cup and they’ll tell you it was the pinnacle of their time in amateur golf. Truth is, for many it...
Alistair Tait
May 10, 2021
A Walker Cup What If.....
What an impressive performance by Great Britain & Ireland in the 48th Walker Cup. Let’s take nothing away from the United States....
Alistair Tait
May 9, 2021
Short and sweet and truly unique
Don’t you wish there were more golf tournaments like the Walker Cup? Two days of intense competition instead of the usual moribund fare...
Alistair Tait
May 7, 2021
Walker Cup miracles can come true, but…
I hope Stuart Wilson is right. I want to believe in miracles. Wilson leads Great Britain & Ireland’s 10-man Walker Cup team at Seminole...
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