A snowman is golf slang for scoring an 8 on a hole, because the number 8 looks like a snowman. Here's what it means against par, how it counts for your handicap, and how to stop one from happening.

A bunker is a prepared area of sand on a golf course, usually a hollow near a green or fairway. Here's what the Rules of Golf let you do in one, how bunkers differ from waste areas, and why the wor...

The TaylorMade Tour Preferred irons are a better player line that TaylorMade released in January 2014 in three versions: the MB muscleback, the MC muscle cavity and the CB cavity back. They had mad...

New to golf in Dallas-Fort Worth? A simple plan for your first month: where to hit balls, which short courses to try first, and how to get clubs without overspending.

Pecan Hollow is Plano's public 18-hole course: a par 72 Don January design from 1973 with a lighted driving range. Here's what to know before you book, plus where to get clubs and regrips nearby.

Ely Callaway was past 60, with careers in textiles and wine behind him, when he bought into a small California club company in 1982. Nine years later the Big Bertha changed what a driver looks like.

The nineteenth hole is the clubhouse bar or grill where golfers go after 18 holes. The phrase shows up in Scottish newspapers by 1890 and in the New York Times by 1899.

A double bogey is a score of two over par on a hole. Here's how it works on par 3s, 4s and 5s, why it matters for your handicap, and a few ways to keep them off your card.

The Ping G25 irons are a game improvement set announced in January 2013 and sold from February of that year, built around a Custom Tuning Port that was lowered to line up with where the ball is str...