look's like he has sunk his last put
the man that got people watching golf with his whispering commentating
RIP Peter

The last of the great commentators from my youth - not bad golfer either!

I have to admit that once upon a time I used to see him as being comfortably smug - a description that can sometimes apply to the game of golf as a whole.

However in more recent years I came to appreciate just how good he was behind the microphone - relaxed, droll, witty and a master of just saying enough, and never too much.

Probably the last of that band of commentators I grew up with - John Arlott, Peter O'Sullevan, Bill McLaren, Kenneth Wolstenholme, Dan Maskell.....

A round with Allis was what got me interested in golf.
A slightly different spelling of the title had the same effect with p***.

So, I bear a grudge that Alliss made a ferocious sport appear congenial.
There are only 2 times I felt like golf was in the Alliss 'mode'.
Playing early-doors in Scotland, where you put your green fees in an honesty box. An hour later, and countless lost balls, I still had people coming up behind as i was on the 18th.
And New Zealand where farmers make excess land into ad-hoc golf courses. Throw your Green Fees in the bucket, and off you go,...but try to miss the sheep 5hlt.

And as an earlier poster said, Alliss's silence was as effective as his voice.

I disengage, I turn the page.