BlogKevin Newberry

author-kevin newberry Kevin has 23 years of experience as a reporter for The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and The Houston Post and 8 years as a corporate communications director. He also has published a number of books, including Shell Golf Guides to Houston, Austin-San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth and Las Vegas. He won numerous awards in corporate communications before creating Houston Links in 2005.

He grew up in Dallas and graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1985. While attending SMU on journalism scholarships, he walked on to the golf team in 1984 when SMU reinstated its golf program. Kevin still plays about eight rounds a month and plays to a 7 handicap. His greatest joy is walking through life with his son, Danny.

These old dogs learned some new tricks

Written by Kevin Newberry on Wednesday, 01 February 2012

As we enter our seventh year of publishing the nation's best local golf magazines, we have taken our game to a whole new level with the launch of mytxgolf.com—the new internet home for Texas golf. Yeah, we know we're arriving fashionably late to the party. It can take a long time to teach old dogs new tricks. But we think you will find our new

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When disaster strikes…

Written by Kevin Newberry on Saturday, 01 October 2011

We grow numb to natural disasters. Whether it's a tsunami, earthquake, hurricane, tornado, nuclear meltdown, flooding or wildfire, almost every night on the TV news we see bad things happening to people we don't know in some place far, far away. We look at the images and either say a silent prayer for those impacted or of thanks that it wasn't

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Together…again

Written by Kevin Newberry on Thursday, 01 September 2011

I have dreaded this day since I was a little boy. My mom, Ernestine Eugenia Newberry, died at 12:03 a.m. on August 31, the same day we went to press with this amazing edition of Texas Links. She was 87. She is survived by four sons and a daughter, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She was preceeded in death by her daughter,

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Stuff they don’t teach you in school

Written by Kevin Newberry on Monday, 01 August 2011

My son, Danny, turns 6 this month. Of late, he has been asking me a lot of math questions. Not sure if he is just exercising his new math skills or challenging mine. Daddy, how old will you be when I am 10? Well, I'm always going to be 43 years older than you, so 10+43 equals 53." How old will you be when I am 30? Let's see. 30+43 equals 73.

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