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. — intelligent, witty, feisty, opinionated, an advocate of amateur golf and instrumental in the growth of the sport in Houston passed away on Friday morning in his hometown. He was 10 ...

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 ...

Jackie Burke Jr. started making notes to himself more than a half-century ago. Burke had no designs on becoming the next great American author — or golf guru. He was just trying to collect his ...