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Top Golf = Good. Top Magic = Even Better.

By Richie Whitt
Jul 25, 2011

You like golf. But not for five hours in 100-degree heat while paying $50. Oh yeah, and you like Skeeball. And bowling, right? Then I've got your solution. TopGolf, which now has two locations, one in Dallas and the newest one in Allen. I beat the heat Saturday afternoon at TopGolf in...
Sad Sports Sunday For Your Good Ol' Red, White and Boo

By Richie Whitt
Jul 18, 2011

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...
Hank Haney Confirms What We All Knew: Tiger Woods is a Bad Human Being

By Richie Whitt
Jul 1, 2010

I was always jealous of Hank Haney's gig. Being Tiger Woods' swing coach, I surmised, was about as difficult as being Megan Fox's beauty consultant. Boy was I wrong. The Dallas-based golf guru rips Woods in a Golf Digest article, saying of his relationship with Tiger: "It didn't get dysfunctional; it always...
David Milson: Bad News For a Great Coach

By Richie Whitt
Jun 17, 2010

Now it's time to return the favor. Because while battling lung cancer, the former Cedar Hill High School basketball coach needs a lift. His spirits should be at least temporarily boosted Monday when family, friends and colleagues hold the David Milson Charity Golf Tournament at Tangle Ridge Golf Club in Grand...
Tiger Woods Was Here! (Sorta)

By Richie Whitt
Jun 1, 2010

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 vacation doing some productive things: Jumping on the P90X...
Hey, I Found a Reason to Go to the HD Byron Nelson Classic

By Richie Whitt
May 20, 2010

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...
Leonard Davis Loves Animals II: Chasing Birdies, Saving Ducks

By Richie Whitt
May 13, 2010

View more news videos at:http://www.nbcdfw.com/video. In 2007 Leonard Davis pulled a horse out of the mud. In 2010 he answered my musical inquiries without crushing me like an empty beer can. And Wednesday, he helped some ducks out of a sand trap. Yeah, I know. All you care about it is...
Hey, HP Byron Nelson Classic, I Got An Idea

By Richie Whitt
May 12, 2010

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 box and give an exemption...
Tiger Woods Shoots 120. How Many For You?

By Richie Whitt
Apr 29, 2010

Wilt Chamberlain infamously said he slept with 20,000 women. More recently, Winston Bennett claimed a rate of three girls per day. And now - according to the National Enquirer - Tiger Woods is said to have confessed to sleeping with 120 women during his five-year marriage to wife Elin. Once upon...
Chalk One Up for Karma: Tiger Woods Overshadowed by Phil-Good Story

By Richie Whitt
Apr 12, 2010

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 repetitive, horrible, corrupt choices. Someone whose wife and mother are dealing with breast cancer. Someone like Phil...
What Would You Ask Tiger Woods?

By Richie Whitt
Mar 25, 2010

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...
Tiger's Tale: Just Believe It?

By Richie Whitt
Feb 23, 2010

Just Do It? Tiger Woods has done it all. From 14 Grand Slams to even more extra-marital affairs, he's turned all the tricks. But last week's State of the Brand address was an unprecedented doozy. Tiger actually proved it's possible - if not preferred - to be defiant while simultaneously...
Tiger's Tale Forthcoming: What Do You Want to Hear?

By Richie Whitt
Feb 18, 2010

For the first time since his late-night Thanksgiving car wreck, we'll hear from Tiger Woods. Friday at 10 a.m. (live everywhere, including on our show at 105.3 The Fan) the world's most recognizable athlete will apparently address his past failures and future plans. Of course I'm intrigued. I want to see if...
Like it or Not, Tiger Woods is a Role Model. A Suddenly Horrible Role Model.

By Richie Whitt
Dec 3, 2009

I have great parents. As a kid, they provided for me and poured the foundation for me to grow into a decent - I said decent - human being through principles, rules and accepted boundaries. My parents raised me. But Bjorn Borg molded me. I'd be home by my 10...
Tiger Woods: "I Have Let My Family Down."

By Richie Whitt
Dec 2, 2009

Oh shit. Yeah, it's bad. And it's true. Tiger like you've never heard him. Hey Elin, if you need a shoulder to cry on. Call me. Unfortunately I have very recent experience in this field...
So, All Things Considered, Would You Trade Places With Tiger Woods?

By Richie Whitt
Nov 30, 2009

Fame. Fortune. Females. Ah, the life. Tiger Woods has it all. Except as of last week, of course, he needs a new driver. I'd love to hit a 210-yard 6-iron. I'd love to win a Major or 14. Truth to be told, I'd love me some Elin, too. I'd love...
Fantasy Golf is, Apparently, Child's Play

By Richie Whitt
Oct 8, 2009

Flipping through my Avid Golfer magazine this week I came across the most interesting of tournaments. A media tournament. A fantasy media tournament. Who knew? Seems the boys over at Avid couldn't herd all us cats into actually playing a tournament, so they produced a speculative tournament won by 106.1...
Lord Byron's Swingers Party

By Richie Whitt
May 28, 2009

Sure the field isn't as strong as this week's Colonial and its reputation in PGA Tour circles is crumbling, but from what I witnessed last week the HP Byron Nelson Classic is alive, well and oblivious to any economic downturn or reluctance to party hearty. Thanks to The Pavilion, of course...
Who Ruined Your Easter?

By Richie Whitt
Apr 13, 2009

Aside from the Almighty He/She/It having the audacity to conjure up a downpour and wash out sunrise services across the Metroplex, which Texas culprit laid an egg Sunday and did the leaster for your Easter? 1. Dallas Mavericks 2. Texas Rangers 3. Chad Campbell The evidence:...
March Sadness/Gladness

By Richie Whitt
Mar 20, 2009

Instead of watching college basketball yesterday, I decided to get out the sticks for the first time this spring. Cue the Guinness guys: Brilliant! While one of my upsets delivered (Western Kentucky over Illinois) and one of my Final Four teams inexplicably pratfalled (Clemson?!), I carded a fresh 76 at...

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