Professional Golfers' Association

Here's PGA's Rickie Fowler Golfing from atop a Victory Park Parking Garage

Between the end of this past weekend's Byron Nelson and the start this week of the Colonial in Fort Worth, the professional golf world had a bit of time to kill in Dallas. And what better way to do that than designing a Texas-shaped green, putting it in the plaza in front of the American Airlines Ce ... More >>

Just Playing Through

Dallas' New Trinity Forest Golf Course Has Officially Stolen the Byron Nelson from Irving

As we write this, the world's top golfers not named Tiger are descending on Irving for the Byron Nelson Championship. It's a big deal, one of the region's biggest sporting events and driver of an estimated $35 million in economic activity. But before play begins on Thursday, the city of Dallas woul ... More >>

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 >>

Trinity Forest Golf Course Backers Say They've Presold at Least 100 Six-Figure Memberships

Plans for the Trinity Forest Golf Course, the much-touted game-changer for southern Dallas, are taking shape as the project marches toward an expected groundbreaking this fall. All that remains, really, is figuring out how to pay for it. To get the city's buy-in, not to mention the $12 million it's ... More >>

Dallas' City Council Continued its Love Affair with Horses and Golf Yesterday. Plus: Bikes!

The City Council's agenda yesterday was chock full of actually interesting stuff. You can relive it any time you want through the city's database of archived council videos. But just in case you have something better to do, we'll summarized the high points. It's Not Raining On Tennell Atkins' Parad ... 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 >>

Fear and Fracking in Southlake

In one of America's wealthiest suburbs, an unlikely band of drilling opponents helped drive away the world's biggest energy companies. Did they save the town or ruin it?

Best of Dallas 2011: Sports (Director's Cut and Deleted Scenes)

​Some are good. Some are getting better. But only a select few are the best. When it comes to our annual Best of Dallas issue I've made it easy this year. For those of you too cheap to "buy" a paper that's absolutely free, just sit back in your boxers and click, click, click away. ... More >>

A Rangers Repeat? History Suggests Odds Are Long.

One Hit Wonders

Now, Dallas Attorney Says PGA Tour Got $13 Million From Allen Stanford. He Wants It Back.

Ralph Janvey​A dip into the downtown federal courthouse grab bag this morning comes up with two interesting filings. Let's begin with this one.You probably recognize the name Ralph Janvey by now. For a long while, the partner at the Ross Avenue law firm of Krage & Janvey has been the court-app ... More >>

Hello, Torchy's. Goodbye Tre Amici.

​Well, we wish we could say the month of June was a great one with some long-awaited restaurants finally making their debut, but as they were coming, others were going. As we said hello to the Torchy's, we were forced to say goodbye to Cafe Madrid in the Bishop Arts. As the new Brownstone R ... More >>

Tiger Woods Was Here! (Sorta)

The fake Tiger Woods, the real Joslyn James and an authentic dork.​Mark Taborn is 37. Lives in Los Angeles. Works in the corporate world. And is a hack of a golfer carrying a 23 handicap. Weird, because not a single day passes that he isn't confused for Tiger Woods. I spent my blogless ... More >>

Hey, I Found a Reason to Go to the HD Byron Nelson Classic

​No Tiger. No problem. Phil Mickelson won't be at today's opening round of the HD Byron Nelson Classic out in Las Colinas. Neither will Tiger Woods or past champs like Sergio Garcia or Adam Scott or, really, anybody you've ever heard of outside Vijay Singh and maybe defending champ Rory Sabba ... More >>

Hey, HP Byron Nelson Classic, I Got An Idea

​With Phil Mickelson out and Tiger Woods out and golf pretty much dead, this year's HP Byron Nelson Classic in Irving May 20-23 will be much ado about nothing The Pavilion. What's new, right? That could change, if the dudes in red pants would think outside their yellow-roped bo ... More >>

Whitt Says It Will Happen: The Cowboys Will Beat the Eagles on Saturday. Again.

Tony Romo Ranked No. 1! In Something!

​Your favorite pinata may be ranked only 17th in NFL quarterback ratings, but Golf Digest says he's the planet's best athlete golfer. That's right, No. 1. Swing away ...

Whitt's End: 8.21.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Found this Josh Hamilton interview from Rangers' spring training. March 18, 2009 to be exact. In other words, about two months - give or take - after his full-throttle, alcohol-laden nig ... More >>

The Top 10 Best Current Rivalries in Sports

Tonight's the next chapter in one of sports' best rivalries. That's right, I said best.To be a true sports rivalry - more than just a plethora of games between teams in close proximity (see Chicago Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals) - the meetings between opponents must: *Take place at a ... More >>

How the Dallas Mavericks' Jet Spends the Off-Season

Summer = Bummer

Blasts From The Past ... Er, Present ... Um, Future?

Why the PGA Screwed Texas

Goooood Boooooy |Paging Karl Rove |Dirk No-win-ski |Blue Note |Lord Nelson

Fore! Play!

Wanna Buy the Four Seasons? Too Late.

Fore Play

Lord Byron hosts Dallas' biggest swingers party

Another Night in Paradise

Laying bare the lives of Dallas' Strip Club DJs

All Net

The Mavs gets Jazzed

The Book on Golf

Plus; Sack of Kittens; Annika's TO-DO LIST

Bad Blow

Why are the DMN city columnists so lame? Belo wants them that way.

Courtly Language

Dallas lawyer Bryan Garner cuts through the muck of legal prose

Best sports spectator experience

MasterCard Colonial Golf Tournament

Deadbeat

Vance Miller lives in a Highland Park mansion, carries weight in the GOP, and parties with high society. He owes you, the taxpayer, $26 million, and he ain't paying.

Letters

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.

Media merger madness

Cap Cities/ABC decision to fire radio host Hightower was a big mistake