Barred From a Segregated Golf Course, These Texas Teens Built Their Own
The team from Del Rio went on to win the Texas high school golf championship in 1957—and soon will see its story told in movie theaters around the country.
The team from Del Rio went on to win the Texas high school golf championship in 1957—and soon will see its story told in movie theaters around the country.
NAACP head Derrick Johnson visited Austin to support preservation efforts at Lions Municipal, the first public links in Texas to desegregate.
Ludvig Åberg patiently put in the time and work it took to earn his PGA Tour card while on the Texas Tech men’s golf team.
From arid El Paso to the Piney Woods, Texas boasts outstanding links that don’t require an expensive membership.
The Aggie senior and reigning U.S. amateur champion flirted with setting an amateur course record before finishing sixteenth overall.
Discover the new heights of Hill Country living.
From Staubach to Mahomes, Darrell Royal to Coach Pop, Lee Trevino to Simone Biles, here are sixteen figures who have defined Texas sports.
Here’s what half a billion dollars buys in luxury golf amenities.
The 25-year-old UT grad has won four of his last six PGA Tour events—and Sunday’s win wasn’t any old victory, it was the Masters.
Scottie Scheffler was winless in his first three years on the PGA Tour. Then he won three of his last five events and rocketed to the number one ranking.
These courses are beautiful, fun for all skill levels, and are available to play at a great value. Fairways and greens!
Onetime UT golfers Jordan Spieth, Dylan Frittelli, and Scottie Sheffler all finished in the top ten at the PGA Tour event.
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Also: Occidental’s Harvey losses hit $70 million, Texas exports to India, and Valero renews its golf sponsorship.
After a weekend that saw him become only the second golfer to win ten or more tournaments before the age of 24, let’s can the doom and gloom.
An excerpt from Harvey Penick: The Life and Wisdom of the Man Who Wrote the Book on Golf by Kevin Robbins reveals how one of golf's greatest minds came to share his knowledge with the world.
The 22-year-old Dallas golfer is well on his way to being one of the richest media presences on the planet.
Jordan Spieth didn’t win the British Open, but he did win the Internet’s heart.
When Willie met Scarface.
His legacy, his old friend Harvey Penick, and his remarkable play at Augusta National twenty years ago.
Advice for Tiger’s new swing coach.
Goodbye to Glen Garden.
The legendary Dan Jenkins has been covering sports since the forties. Things have not improved.
The pride of Paschal High became the first living sportswriter to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Monday night.
The 82-year-old Fort Worth sportswriting legend and World Golf Hall of Famer lights up Twitter with his missives from Augusta National.
It may have rained where you live Tuesday, but the drought continues to impact everything from butterflies to barbecue and golf to drinking water.
Woods' Dallas-based former swing coach Hank Haney is making the TV rounds for his new book, The Big Miss.
A Springtown man suffers a life-threatening wound after he was stabbed in the leg with a broken golf club on the Eagle Mountain Lake course in Fort Worth.
Babe Didrikson’s pioneering career as a woman golfer.
Poodie Locke, longtime stage manager for Willie Nelson, died Wednesday at the age of 60.
After telecommunications tycoon Steve Smith bought the Big Bend town of Lajitas on a whim for $4.25 million, he spent perhaps $100 million more developing what was going to be a five-star, world-class getaway. The desert, however, had other ideas.
The best golf holes in Texas, according to the legends of the game.
“I always thought that if I was having fun doing what I was doing and making a living doing it, then I was already successful.”
Which soft drink’s quart-size bottle did Lee trevino use as a golf club?
For Texas’ Kuehne kids, excelling at golf is par for the course—and the least their father will accept.
Which sports did Babe Didrikson dominate, and in what Hepburn-Tracy film did she appear?
I grew up playing alongside some of the best Texas golfers of my generation. Then I started to lose my grip.
Feeling a little subpar? Stuck in a mental bunker? The Ben Crenshaw Golf Screen Saver (ProTour Productions, $19.95) will drive away the blues. This lively program contains more than 25 images of important moments in Crenshaw�s life that pop up on your computer whenever it is idle; select your favorite
It doesn’t matter that his most famous pupil was shark- bitten at the Masters. Butch Harmon is still Texas’ hottest golf pro since Harvey Penick.
Want to golf this summer on three of the best-designed, least expensive courses in the world? Swing on down to los cabos, mexico.
How 89-year-old Harvey Penick turned life’s lessons into a best-selling book—and followed it up with another master stroke.
Can the desire to win transform Japan’s gung ho golfers into pros?
When country singer Charley Pride isn’t on the road, chances are he’s puttering around a Dallas golf course—or riding herd on his business holdings.
Looking for a sport that offers plenty of cheap thrills and wacky challenges but requires no training, no equipment, and no big bucks? Try miniature golf.
The most popular club at the Colonial Golf Tournament is the one with barstools.
Will success spoil Ben Crenshaw?
Ben Crenshaw picks his favorite golf holes.