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BOB WEST ON GOLF — Advanced age proves no impediment for sinking an ice
As a long-time golf writer, I have always been fascinated at holes in one and some of the crazy stories surrounding them. Among the goofiest ...
Bob West, Author at Port Arthur News
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BOB WEST ON GOLF — Babe offers terrific opportunity for Chevron, LPGA
Aside from the announcement of a somewhat hokey 12-hole “match” between Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau in Las Vegas the day after Thanksgiving, the big ...
by Bob West, Wednesday, October 13, 2021 12:06 am
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BOB WEST ON GOLF — Landry makes statement with T4 after badly missed cut
Coming off what he called his worst year on the PGA Tour, then starting the 2021-22 season with rounds of 77-77 in the Fortinet Classic ...
by Bob West, Wednesday, October 6, 2021 12:06 am
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BOB WEST — USA golf flexes its youth in Ryder Cup wipeout
With the United States having made perhaps the most resounding statement in Ryder Cup history over the weekend at Whistling Straits, golf quickly settles back ...
by Bob West, Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:24 am
Columns
BOB WEST ON GOLF — Golf spotlight shines on USA’s Ryder Cup challenge
Every red-blooded American golfer who loves to chant or hear “USA, USA” figures to be planted in front of the television or roaming the grounds ...
by Bob West, Wednesday, September 22, 2021 12:07 am
Columns
BOB WEST ON GOLF — Stroud, Landry face different challenges in new PGA season
Less than two weeks after Patrick Cantlay nailed down the Tour Championship, and only one week ahead of the Ryder Cup, the PGA Tour’s 2021-22 ...
by Bob West, Wednesday, September 15, 2021 12:06 am
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BOB WEST ON GOLF — Lamar ex Dawie van der Walt snags PGA Tour card
Hearty congratulations are in order for 2008 Lamar University grad Dawie van der Walt. Chris Stroud’s one-time LU roommate earned a PGA Tour card over ...
by Bob West, Wednesday, September 8, 2021 12:05 am
Columns
BOB WEST ON GOLF — Golf marks 25 years of Tiger Woods with awe and tributes
The golf world marked a significant anniversary this past weekend – 25 years since Tiger Woods’ PGA Tour debut in the Greater Milwaukee Open. Tiger ...
by Bob West, Wednesday, September 1, 2021 12:05 am
Business
BOB WEST ON GOLF — Julia Suits eager to enhance Zaharias museum
Somewhere up above the late W.L. Pate is smiling over an out-of-the-blue proposal to enhance the exterior entryway to the Babe Zaharias Museum in Beaumont. ...
by Bob West, Wednesday, August 25, 2021 12:30 am
Columns
BOB WEST’S CHIP SHOTS — RESULTS FROM BABE ZAHARIAS SENIOR TOURNAMENT
The team of Rusty Hicks, Don MacNeil, Jerry May and Bob West went really low with minus 7 to win the front in the Tuesday ...