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BOB WEST CHIP SHOTS: LCM’s Jack Burke fails to make cut; Babe Zaharias results shared

Despite rebounding with a second-day 73, recent LC-M graduate Jack Burke failed to make the cut in last week’s 112th Texas Amateur Championship at Midland ... Read more

by Bob West, Wednesday, June 23, 2021 12:04 am

Columns

BOB WEST ON GOLF — Burke looks to make more area history in Texas Amateur

With his star-spangled high school career now in the rear-view mirror, Little Cypress-Mauriceville’s Jack Burke headed west on Tuesday to prepare for his most prestigious ... Read more

by Bob West, Wednesday, June 16, 2021 12:04 am

Columns

BOB WEST ON GOLF — Jerry Honza honored at Zaharias Junior Golf Awards

On a night when former Lamar University great Kelly Gibson challenged and regaled the area’s top junior golfers with some memorable stories of his PGA ... Read more

by Bob West, Wednesday, June 9, 2021 12:05 am

Columns

Golf Digest podcast shines deserved light on Babe Zaharias

On the 67th anniversary of Babe Zaharias’ incomparable victory in the 1954 United States Women’s Open, Golf Digest has gone out of its way to ... Read more

by Bob West, Wednesday, June 2, 2021 12:05 am

Columns

BOB WEST ON GOLF — Mickelson thumbed his nose at Father Time’s aura

Old-timer Phil Mickelson was such an afterthought in the PGA Championship that betting odds on him were established as high as 300/1. Amazingly, some fool ... Read more

by Bob West, Wednesday, May 26, 2021 12:06 am

Columns

BOB WEST ON GOLF — Joe Gongora cashes in on his sixth hole in one

Aces are nothing new for Joe Gongora of Port Arthur but the one he made last Wednesday at Babe Zaharias carried multiple rewards beyond the ... Read more

by Bob West, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 12:06 am

Columns

BOB WEST ON GOLF: Celebrated LU ex Gibson to speak at Zaharias awards

W.L Pate Jr. continues to deliver formidable, highly successful motivational speakers for the annual Babe Didrikson Zaharias High School Golf Awards banquet. Former Lamar University ... Read more

by Bob West, Wednesday, May 5, 2021 12:07 am

Columns

BOB WEST ON GOLF: Participation dropping in junior golf tournaments

Once upon a time in the no-so-distant past, the Golden Triangle was a staunch bastion of junior golf. Participation and interest was such that then ... Read more

by Bob West, Wednesday, April 28, 2021 12:05 am

Golf

PNG finishes 11th in regional golf tourney

Port Neches-Groves’ District 21-5A champions improved by 19 strokes on the second day of the Region III, 5A golf championship in College Station but it ... Read more

by Bob West, Saturday, April 24, 2021 12:05 am

Columns

BOB WEST ON GOLF — Cook’s instruction starting to pay off for Bailey

Braden Bailey came oh-so-close to authoring what could have been an enduring golfing memory Monday in the qualifier for the Korn Ferry Tour’s Veritex Bank ... Read more

by Bob West, Wednesday, April 21, 2021 12:05 am

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