Bob Estes acknowledges the gallery after his putt on the second green during the second round of the 2007 Shell Houston Open Friday, March 30, 2007, on the Tournament Course at the Redstone Golf Club ...

HOUSTON -- Bob Estes will long be remembered for hitting the shortest drive in PGA Tour history Thursday, a 15-foot shot with the putter. That would be fine with him. The reason he used his putter ...

Bob Estes tees off on the 16th hole at the Shell Houston Open on Saturday. Estes shot a 64 to finish tied for third at 12 under par. BRETT COOMER/CHRONICLE • Third-round scores.

Bob Estes had a bad lie. Over the last year or more, one of the best golfers to ever play at the University of Texas has undergone all sorts of setbacks, some physical, some personal and all of the… ...

Bob Estes is in his third season on PGA TOUR Champions, but in some ways this is his rookie year. For the first time since turning 50, the Texas native, who turned 53 on Feb. 2, plans to play a ...

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — On a day when birdies were flying around Harbor Shores in the first round of the Senior PGA Championship, Steven Alker began soaring with an eagle.

Bob Estes survived with an even-par 71 Sunday to finish off a wire-to-wire victory in the St. Jude Classic at Memphis, Tenn., for his second win on the PGA Tour, holding off Bernhard Langer by a ...

When play gets under way Thursday at the Open Championship at St. Andrews, you can count on Bob Estes being among the millions glued to a TV. It’s been that way for Estes, an Austinite, for some ...

If Bob Estes had been a little like Western Open champion Billy Mayfair, the scoreboard episode never would have happened. But Estes occasionally checks out the scoreboard. And that’s one of the ...

So this golfer goes into the clubhouse, right, and the bartender says to him, “Hey, it’s good to see you back after not being here last year.” The golfer agrees, it has been a whi… ...