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Why Scottie Scheffler's Golf Game is Set Up for Success at the British OpenWhen he’s asked to compare Scottie Scheffler to another outstanding player in the history of golf, University of Texas golf coach John Fields typically mentions Seve Ballesteros, the Spanish champion with the ingenuity and dexterity of a sculptor shaping a lump of clay. Just as the late Ballesteros did throughout his decorated career, Scheffler uses his hands as an extension of a supple imagination occupied only by the shot that needs to be struck in a particular circumstance. “I’d only seen that one other place,” Fields says. “I still believe today that somewhere in [Scottie’s] body is some remnant of Seve.”Fields speaks from experience. After graduating from the University of New Mexico, he played professional golf in Europe in the early 1980s, when Ballesteros was…

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american rounds ammo vending machinesThis time of year, shoppers who set foot inside Lowe’s Market in downtown Canyon Lake, are usually looking for two things: swimming gear and beer. The cramped and busy grocery store, which is located about an hour north of San Antonio and whose wide selection of disparate items gives it the feel of a mini-Walmart, is often the last stop for supplies before locals and tourists float down the nearby Guadalupe River, a Texas summer tradition. But for the last two weeks, something else has lured an endless stream of outdoor enthusiasts, ranchers, gun lovers, and tourists into the store, often with looks of excitement and curiosity splashed across their faces. It’s not the fresh produce, the sunscreen, or even the generous selection of wine and…

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Texanist LuckenbachQ:  I work as a park ranger in the Hill Country, and because of the Waylon Jennings song “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)” I am often asked about Luckenbach. I did some research so that I could offer tourists some interesting tidbits, but all I found was that the songwriters had never been there. Why, then, did they write a song about it?! Heidi Dietze, Marble FallsA: Here’s what the Texanist knows: Luckenbach is a teeny-tiny Hill Country hamlet located in southeast Gillespie County, about ten miles outside of Fredericksburg. It was originally settled by industrious immigrant farmers in the OG (Old German) era of the 1840s. By the late nineteenth century, there was a blacksmith shop, a cotton gin, a post office,…

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Hilton Anatole propeller from the RMS LusitaniaThe Detours series celebrates lesser-known locales worth visiting across the state. A Dallas resort’s sculpture garden serves as the final resting place for a bit of history: a propeller from the RMS Lusitania, the British passenger ship torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland during World War I. It belongs to real estate billionaire Harlan Crow, whose mother, incidentally, survived the sinking of the SS Athenia, the first British ship to be torpedoed by Germany in World War II. The propeller is one of more than a thousand artworks and artifacts—including pieces of the Berlin Wall—at the Crow-owned Hilton Anatole, which boasts one of the largest such collections of any hotel in the country. Of the remaining Lusitania propellers, one rests on…

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Wink dining roomAs the evening’s first customers stroll into Wink Wine Bar on a Saturday, my friend and I notice that they head straight for the leather-backed seats at the bar. The bartender warmly greets one with a “Well, there you are!” as if she’s been waiting for him all night. It’s not even five o’clock.Every Tuesday through Saturday, loyal locals come here for one of the best happy hour deals in Austin: almost the entire bar-food menu is half off from 4:30 to 6 p.m. For less than $12 per dish, diners can indulge in macaroni and cheese with black truffles, mussels steamed in a harissa-seasoned fumet,or grilled flatbread topped with white anchovies and Parmesan. They can choose the $8 Wink burger with Brie and caramelized…

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The Michelin Guide is Coming to TexasInspectors for France’s world-famous Michelin Guide have been secretly eating their way across Texas for months in preparation for the publication, which is released at the end of the year.The guide’s expansion to Texas will include Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. The announcement was made on July 16 jointly by Michelin and Travel Texas, the state’s tourism agency, following yearslong efforts by the Texas restaurant and travel industry to entice the finicky French guide to cover the state.Texas will be its eleventh destination in North America. Other U.S. cities with Michelin coverage include Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Orlando, and San Francisco.The most-anticipated part of the coverage will be seeing which fancy restaurants receive Michelin’s coveted one-, two-, or three-star designations…

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Male and female wild bobwhite quailWHO: A Texas Tech professor and an organization of Dallas-area hunters.WHAT: An FDA-approved medicated feed for wild quails that eradicates parasitic worms.WHY IT’S SO GREAT: The northern bobwhite quail, a game bird once ubiquitous across much of Texas, is struggling. Its population in the Rolling Plains region, which stretches from just east of Lubbock to slightly north of Abilene, is significantly below historic levels. “We expect only scattered pockets of good hunting this year,” notes Texas Parks and Wildlife’s forecast for quail season in the region.There are many reasons for the long-term, nationwide decline of the grassland bird, notably habitat loss and fragmentation. In Texas, another factor appears to be partly responsible: parasitic worms. Quail in the Rolling Plains are rife with these tiny invaders…

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Bobby Witt Jr. and Bobby Witt Sr.In those backyard ball games in North Texas years ago, Bobby Witt Jr. and his buddies growing up in Colleyville imagined they were playing for the Texas Rangers. Now in his third season with the Kansas City Royals, the 24-year-old Bobby Jr. will play a big league home game in Arlington for the first time on Tuesday night as a member of the American League All-Star team, in the ninety-fourth edition of MLB’s Midsummer Classic, at Globe Life Field.“Just being an All-Star is an honor,” Bobby Jr. said. “First one being in the hometown is just incredible. I grew up going to the stadium across the street, grew up being a Rangers fan. It kind of gives me goose bumps just talking about it. My…

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Orange Holloway Sr. ProfileIn 2019, the Texas House of Representatives included Orange Holloway Sr. in Resolution 706. It was written to honor Norma Frances “Tootsie” Tomanetz of Snow’s BBQ in Lexington, who had just been inducted into the American Royal Association’s Barbecue Hall of Fame. The text reads, “she was tutored by legendary pit master Orange Holloway.” A legend, certainly, for having taught one of the most famous pitmasters Texas has ever celebrated, but Orange was more of a mystery, having died decades ago. His mentions were always as a footnote to Tomanetz’s story, which is why Orange’s distant cousin Seth Dockery III recently organized a family reunion to share a fuller picture of Owens “Orange” Lee Holloway Sr.We met in June in Giddings, 55 miles east of Austin,…

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There’s a story my folks used to tell when they wanted to get across what it was like to be older parents, in their fifties and sixties, with a young boy in the house. A boy, they understood, who was bored and restless with no siblings still living at home, who spent most of his days alone. A boy who seemed to live inside his own head and often lost track of time and of where he was and wished he were growing up anywhere other than Brownsville, isolated at the southern tip of the state, alongside the border and not far from the sea.Years later, my parents and I would kid one another about what happened that day when we all went to the…

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