Feature – 2020 Tournament Planning Guide

Creating a VIP Experience – By Carla Goss, Clubcorp How would you define a VIP experience?  A VIP Experience is what we try to do every day with our tournaments. It starts with the planning process, ensuring we understand what they want the guests to remember. It is incorporating elements that WOW players by making […]

After the Round – Omi Korean Grill and Bar

When it comes to barbecue, Texas has a claim to being King.  And while the Metroplex certainly has an abundance of acclaimed smokehouses, your BBQ experience doesn’t have to be limited to standard meat-and-sauce establishments.  Enter Omi Korean Grill and Bar, which offers a plethora of entrees and special menus to choose from, including all-you-can-eat […]

Elements of Style – New Year, Not So New You

Maintain your signature style to keep yourself looking great and feeling confident all year long By Vicky Pena Training and Employee Engagement Coordinator, Boardroom Salon for Men Welcome to a new year, a new decade, and a time for new beginnings. Whether you’re looking to perfect your golf swing, to get a fresh start or […]

Instruction – Leap Frog

Well, it’s 2020 and that time of year where new-year resolutions are still fresh in our minds. Soon enough, those new-year resolutions will slip our minds as our busy lives consume them. But this is not just a new year, it’s a new decade! Let’s kick this decade off right with a putting speed drill […]

After the Round – Reservoir

Nestled by Toyota Music Factory in Irving’s bustling new nightlife district resides Reservoir, which describes itself as a modern, industrial patio-driven gastropub featuring a menu chalk-full of bar and spirits meshed with southern comfort favorites. And when it comes a variety of good eating and drinking options with a pleasurable ambiance, Reservoir certainly delivers. If […]

Feature Story – Get Lost in the Pines

By Gary Krupkin AG Special Guest Contributor Turn into the gate, and imperceptibly but inexorably, the hectoring of daily clockwork demands unwind as the roadway bends toward The Lost Pines Resort. Into view comes the hotel; a solid, prairie-inspired building of limestone, wood and Texas welcome. “Howdy’s” all around as the staff greets you like […]

Cover Story – Forecasting the 2020 season

The calendar has turned to January and the doors have officially closed on the 2019 golf year. With that in mind, we here at AG (and with the help of some friends) wanted to look ahead at what we would like to see occur on the PGA TOUR over the next 12 months. But before […]

Cover Story – FOX Sports broadcaster Shane Bacon

From the time Marshall native Shane Bacon could walk, he had a golf club in his hands. Trust me, there’s photos on social media to prove it. But while Bacon’s aspirations of playing professionally faded not soon after college, he always believed his career path would involve sports. Boy, was he right. What began as […]

Tales From the Back Nine Part XII – East Texas

On the debut journey of Tales from the Back Nine, we embarked into the great unknown with stubborn invincibility. Enthusiasm for exploring wilderness golf adventures trumped common sense. With my faithful F-150 loaded with golf, camping and fishing gear, we took off for the remote rugged stretches of West Texas in mid-December feeling bulletproof. Driving […]

Instruction – Winter Chipping Change Up

For those of us in the south we are lucky enough to be able to continue playing golf through most of the winter. With that said, a different style of golf is necessary in order to successfully navigate the changes in conditions. In particular, chipping takes on a completely different look when the Bermuda goes […]