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• Top Golf = Good. Top Magic = Even Better.

  Monday, July 25, 2011 at 11:05 a.m.

  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

  Monday, July 18, 2011 at 10:06 a.m.

  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

  Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 1 p.m.

  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

  Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 11 a.m.

  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)

  Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 8:37 a.m.

  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

  Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 2 p.m.

  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...