Last of the Legends of Texas Golf Tough and fair. Legendary and helpful. Gruff and kind. A true Texas original, a champion in three different eras, all would be good descriptions of longtime Champions Golf Club kingpin and former Masters Champion Jack Burke Jr. Burke, 86, a Fort Worth native wh...
The Lanky Lass from New Mexico Set the WABAC machine for November 1963, San Antonio, J. Press Maxwell’s formidable Pecan Valley Golf Club, a few weeks before the Kennedy assassination. After a fitful start, Kathy Whitworth, 24, is having her first big year on the LPGA Tour. With eight wins alre...
Natalie Gulbis is already the biggest name in women’s golf. If she can become one of its biggest winners, there will be no stopping her…or the LPGA Tour. Natalie Gulbis isn’t a cupcake. She isn’t just a pretty face either. But she is arguably the most visible face of the LPGA. So when Gulb...
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It would be difficult to find anybody, anywhere, who works as hard at his profession as Tom Kite, the venerable Texas-born Hall of Fame golfer. On his way to 19 wins on the PGA Tour—including the 1992 US Open Championship at Pebble Beach—and 10 victories on the Champions Tour, Kite has beat more balls and spent more time on golf courses and putting greens than perhaps anyone since Ben Hogan. Known as one the game’s most tireless workers, Kite grinds but he 
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