Golf

Shawn Marion Drives an Incredibly Tiny Car

We're not sure exactly what Shawn Marion is driving here. It's clearly not a car in the traditional sense of the word, nor is it a tricycle, even though it has three wheels. It's kind of like a golf cart, except it appears to be able to reach highway speeds and doesn't appear large enough to store a ... More >>

West, Texas Blast Was Caused By an Arsonist, Electrical Short or Golf Cart, Officials Say

The Morning News broke the news this morning that officials had narrowed the cause of last month's deadly West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion to one of three things: a golf cart, an electrical short, or criminal activity. That wasn't terribly narrow, but there was a press conference scheduled thi ... More >>

Just Playing Through

Plans for the Trinity Forest Golf Course Are Finally Taking Shape

When the city, AT&T and golfing legend Lee Trevino gathered at City Hall last November to announce plans for a PGA-caliber golf course in southern Dallas, they were long on such adjectives as "game changer" and "world-class" but short on details, like where the tens of millions of dollars to build t ... More >>

Yes, You Can Get Thrown in Jail For Drunk Driving a Golf Cart at Texas Motor Speedway

Officer Jennifer Bell and Corporal D.J. Lusty remember the night of April 9, 2011 quite clearly. The Fort Worth cops were working off-duty traffic jobs at Texas Motor Speedway following the Samsung Mobile 500 when Bell spotted a golf cart driving on the grass. She watched as the cart laden with thre ... More >>

Florida Doctor Trying to Sell 1959 Masters Jacket Thinks Golf Club's Claims to Ownership Are Bull

Last Tuesday, Dallas County District Judge Emily Tobolowsky temporary halted Heritage Auctions' planned sale of the 1959 Masters green jacket. Augusta National, the famed Georgia golf club that hosts the tournament, had sued Heritage to have the auction stopped, claiming that the jacket had been sto ... More >>

A Dallas Judge Halted Heritage Auctions' Sale of the 1959 Masters Green Jacket [Updated]

Update at 4:02 p.m.: Heritage has issued a statement: "Yesterday the Augusta National Golf Club filed suit against Heritage Auctions over the Art Wall's 1959 Green Master's jacket being offered in an upcoming sale in New York City. Prior to their filling the lawsuit, Augusta National did not conta ... More >>

Watch an Arlington Golf Pro Swing 14-Foot Golf Club, Break World Record

Michael Furrh is an Arlington golf pro who, according to his Facebook profile, splits his time between working in the pro shop at Rolling Hills Country Club, training caddies at Caddie Club Golf and swinging ridiculously long golf clubs. Last week was Furrh's first, unofficial shot at the Guinness ... More >>

Dallas City Hall Explains How the New Trinity Forest Golf Course Will Save the World

The Great Trinity Forest, as Mayor Rawlings is fond of reminding people, is an underutilized jewel, a huge, relatively untrammeled swath of nature cutting through the city's southern half. As the country's largest urban hardwood forest in the country, it's already world-class, to borrow a phrase. Ye ... More >>

The MS-13 Gang is on a Rampage at a Forest Lane Apartment Complex. No Golf Cart Is Safe.

The Indigo on Forest is, per its website, a wonderful community located in "prestigious North Dallas" that still manages to offer apartments at the low, low price of $440 per month. It would be almost idyllic if it weren't for the contingent of MS-13, a.k.a. Mara Salvatrucha, a.k.a. the brutal Lati ... More >>

City to Pay State $400,000 For Not Taxing Golf Course Green Fees

If you've played a round of golf at one of Dallas' half dozen municipal golf courses, you may have skipped out on the state-mandated 8.25 percent sales tax on your green fee. The city contracts with independent golf pros who collect green fees but haven't traditionally collected sales tax. It's a lo ... More >>

Sad Sports Sunday For Your Good Ol' Red, White and Boo

​Woke up rooting for America Sunday morning. Phil Mickelson made a charge, Dustin Johnson was in the hunt and it looked like a U.S. golfer would steal the Claret Jug at the British Open. I was rooting for America after lunch, too. Abby Wambach scored late and it looked like the U.S. would ... More >>

Mulligans for Mastiffs

Our Next American Sports Idol is ...

​Beats me. Monday I watched both Williams sisters lose at Wimbledon, a week after Andy Roddick bowed out. It leaves as the only American quarterfinalist gentlemen's 10th seed Mardy Fish, a 29-year-old doubles specialist who will hardly threatening Rafael Nadal's throne. We heard a b ... More >>

Taking a Swing at Childhood Obesity

Last week, we told you where you could eat well and do good on a budget. This week, it's time to stop being so stingy. ​The Event: The Annika Experience: Dinner & Golf Outing with Annika Sorenstam The Cause: ANNIKA Foundation The Place: Park Cities Club; Dallas National Golf Club If your pin ... More >>

Zzzzzzzz ... Top 10 Most Boring Sports on the Planet?

​Spent Father's Day between the grill and the couch. OK, mostly the couch. Instead of another tacky tie for a gift, I let dear ol' dad man the remote control. Went something like this: U.S. Open ... Rangers ... U.S. Open ... World Cup ... Rangers ... U.S. Open ... zzzzzzz. Got me to thin ... More >>

Parrotheads Descend Upon Frisco With Golf Carts For This Weekend's Biggest Bash

Photos by Sam MertenSo close, yet so far away: Folks were at a standstill this morning waiting to park in the fields right next to where they were trapped.​It may seem premature for thousands of Jimmy Buffett fans to flood the gates of Frisco's Pizza Hut Park on the Friday morning before a Saturd ... More >>

Teed Off

Chalk One Up for Karma: Tiger Woods Overshadowed by Phil-Good Story

  Karma 1, Tiger Woods 0. See, that's what I'm talking about. Why give Tiger an exaggerated ovation when you can cheer for someone who overcomes adversity that isn't self-inflicted? Someone who doesn't made repititive, horrible, corrupt choices. Someone whose wife and mother are dealing w ... More >>

What Would You Ask Tiger Woods?

​Tiger Woods likely won't play the Byron Nelson or the Colonial this year. But he is playing The Masters and - surprise - he will hold a true press conference. Not a staged, fake 13-minute reading or a controlled, 5-minute session in which the juicy questions are blown off with "That's a priv ... More >>

Frisco's Erin Brockovich Takes on the Kids Golf Industry

Maybe Hopefully you remember Chandler Jackson. Quick refresher: Gifted 12-year-old Frisco boy tragically killed in a 2005 freak accident by a broken golf club in tiny-town Kentucky. After almost four years of misery and mystery, Chandler's parents - Rick and Charmane - may this week g ... More >>

Our Cups Runneth Dry

All He Can Be

After a bitter separation from Special Olympics, a Lewisville father keeps pushing his Unique Athletes

Dallas's Anthony Kim Expects to Lead the British Open Leaderboard

Fore. Play.

The Dude Abides

The Angelika Plano goes for a roll

Father’s Day: The Extended Re-Mix

Sunday School – Handing Out Grades To Our Weekend Wrap-Up Shows

A U.S. Open Celeb Foursome: Romo, Lauer, Timberlake and a Cancer Survivor

Get Teed Off

The EDS Byron Nelson Championship is here

Wood on Woods (Or: Silver Balls)

Jerry to Tony: Dude, Chill

Kim-Possible

News Hawk

You Know What They Say About Small Packages

Wanna Buy the Four Seasons? Too Late.

European Vacation

Hurricane Harbor

Fore Play

Lord Byron hosts Dallas' biggest swingers party

Only the Great Die Young

Misery, mystery and a family's brave journey into life after death

Legs of Steel

Make a Dash

Make Tracks

Highland, Ho

Scottish fest and games offer caber tossing and bonny knees

Best TV Sports Anchor

Dale Hansen, WFAA-TV Channel 8

Fore Score

Golfing as a good deed

Best Afternoon to be Had Two Miles From Downtown

Golfing at Stevens Park

Best sports spectator experience

MasterCard Colonial Golf Tournament

Best golf course

TPC Las Colinas

Stick it in your ear

Frank Mitchell thought he was a made man in the all-powerful 'family' that controls professional golf. Then the PGA Tour shoved him out into the cold.