Streelman, Points in good shape but Wilson out of BMW Championship Now there’s just one FedEx Cup Playoff tourney left before the PGA Tour makes its first return to the Chicago area since 2011. The Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston has a Friday-Monday run this week, and the low 70 in the standings after that…
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Malm’s 63 at Elgin bodes well for his chances in IPGA tourney
Clearly Curtis Malm is the player to watch in next week’s 91st Illinois PGA Championship on Olympia Fields Country Club’s South course. Malm, first assistant professional at St. Charles Country Club and the IPGA’s player-of-the-year in 2012, fired a 9-under par course record 63 at Elgin Country Club on Monday in the section’s fifth stroke…
Playing in BMW Championship isn’t a done deal for Donald, Wilson
Luke Donald and Mark Wilson, Chicago-based PGA Tour players and members of the Western Golf Assn. board of directors, put on an exhibition this week to promote next month’s BMW Championship at Conway Farms in Lake Forest. The nine-hole closed-to-the-public event, which included new Northwestern basketball coach Chris Collins and Bulls’ guard Kirk Heinrich, raised…
Goss, Mory develop unique Academy for juniors
Pat Goss and Jeff Mory, both long prominent in Chicago golf, are busy guys. Goss is director of golf at Northwestern, head coach of the NU men’s team and the swing coach of Luke Donald. Mory is director of golf at Conway Farms, the Lake Forest course that includes Donald among its members. It will…
NORTHERN MICHIGAN: Guss takes charge at Treetops’ Academy
GAYLORD, MI. — Treetops has grown into – arguably at least – Michigan’s most spectacular golf resort and one of its main features is its teaching program. Started in 1990 by Rick Smith and Henry Young, the school thrived as the Rick Smith Golf Academy and Smith became prominent far beyond his home state as…
Illini coach Small will try to revive his game at the PGA Championship
Playing in the PGA Championship isn’t anything new to Mike Small, the University of Illinois men’s coach who qualified for this week’s final major championship of 2013 for the ninth time. Small, who got into the tourney by finishing in a tie for fourth at the Professional Players National Championship in June, has made the…
ILLINOIS WOMEN’S OPEN: Fifth Michigan golfer in six years wins the title
There were possibilities for Chicago golfers to make significant history in Friday’s final round of the 19th Illinois Women’s Open at Mistwood in Romeoville. Berwyn’s Nicole Jeray tried to become the first professional to win event three times. Burr Ridge’s Samantha Postillion hoped to give her family a fourth IWO titles, her mother Kerry having…
ILLINOIS WOMEN’S OPEN: Another Jeray-Postillion duel — but with a twist
ILLINOIS WOMEN’S OPEN: Another Jeray-Postillion duel – but with a twist The story lines couldn’t be more appropriate going into Friday’s final round of the 19th Phil Kosin Illinois Women’s Open at Mistwood in Romeoville. Nicole Jeray, the LPGA Tour veteran from Berwyn, is poised to join amateur Kerry Postillion as the only three-time champions…
Opening up the field did wonders for Illinois Women’s Open
The 19th Phil Kosin Illinois Women’s Open, which tees off Wednesday at Mistwood in Romeoville, has taken a different approach from the men’s 64th Illinois Open, which had one of its most exciting stagings last week at The Glen Club in Glenview. The men’s version, won by Antioch’s Joe Kinney in a three-hole playoff, is…
Suttie leaves Cog Hill, will teach at Mistwood
Owner Jim McWethy has made still another enhancement to his Mistwood golf club, in Romeoville, IL. McWethy has announced that Dr. Jim Suttie has joined the teaching staff that will work out of Mistwood’s Performance Center. Suttie said that the chance to work in the new state-of-the-art facility led to him ending his long relationship…