The Wall Street Journal wrote, “When God decided what He wanted a golf swing to look like, He sent Sam Snead down to show us.” In 1912,…
Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. was the greatest amateur golfer ever to play the game. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on this date in 1902, Jones was…
Frederick Stevens Couples is one of the coolest cats ever to play the game of golf. Born in Seattle, Washington, on October 3, 1959, his…
John Byron Nelson was perhaps the most dominant golfer of his era. Born on a 160-acre cotton farm outside Waxahachie, Texas, on this date in…
The Augusta National Golf Club has played host to the Masters Tournament 79 times. The most exciting of them all took place in 1975. The…
Mildred Ella Didrikson is America’s all-but-forgotten sports superstar. Born in the Gulf Coast city Port Arthur, Texas, on June 26, 1911, Mildred was the sixth…
Happy 64th birthday to one of the greatest putters the game of golf has ever seen. Born in Austin, Texas, on this date in 1952,…
Lee Buck Trevino is the only golfer to win three national titles in the same year. Born out of wedlock in Dallas, Texas, on this…
In 1998, David Robert Duval won the PGA Tour’s money title and Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average. In 2001, he won the Open Championship.…
Northern Ireland is steeped in golf tradition and has produced six major champions in the past five years. Rory McIlroy is the greatest of them…