There are more than 80 golf courses in the Houston metro area and when you go scouring the surrounding locales, you’ll find more than 150 spots to frustratingly smack that little white ball around.
Jackie Burke Jr. turned 100 years of age Sunday, a monumental occasion for the World Golf Hall of Fame member who, along with Jimmy Demaret, founded Champions Golf Club in 1957 in northwest Houston.
He is 99 and the oldest living Masters Champion. One of golf’s all-time treasures. One of but three men, along with Sam Snead and Jack Nicklaus, to win the Masters and PGA in the same year (1956). One ...
The winner of the 1956 Masters and PGA Championship was just 10 days shy of his 101st birthday. Robin Burke, his wife of 37 years, said he was surrounded by family and friends the past few days. ”He ...
Jackie Burke Jr., the 2004 recipient of the USGA’s Bob Jones Award and co-founder of Champions Golf Club, the host site for the 1969 U.S. Open and 2020 U.S. Women’s Open, died on Jan. 19, just 10 days ...
The winner of the 1956 Masters and PGA Championship was just 10 days shy of his 101st birthday. Robin Burke, his wife of 37 years, said he was surrounded by family and friends the past few days. ”He ...