GLENVIEW, Illinois – SpeedGolf, a sport created 14 years ago, combines a player’s golf score with his time covering 18 holes – and Jamie Young is good at it. So good, in fact, that he’s now the world champion. Young, 52, from Kenosha, WI., won the World SpeedGolf Championship at The Glen Club on Tuesday….
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It’s not too early to start planning for the 2017 U.S. Open at Erin Hills
The 117th playing of the U.S. Open is still eight months away, I realize that. Still, it’s not too early to so some planning around it. After all, U.S. Opens don’t come our way very often. Next year’s will be June 15-18 at Erin Hills, a public-access venue located in a little town northwest of…
October provided a variety of meaningful ends to Chicago golf season
I never quite understood this. October, with its generally milder temperatures and beautiful color changes, is in many ways the best month of the year to play golf. Plus, with school back in session, the courses aren’t as busy as they are from June through August. Still, interest seems to be on the downside with…
TRAVEL NOTEBOOK: Hurricane Matthew delays Atlantic Dunes opening
Davis Love III had barely finished savoring his team’s victory in the Ryder Cup when the U.S. captain had another event to celebrate. His Atlantic Dunes course was to open a day later at South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island. That opening, though, never happened. Hurricane Matthew caused damage from Florida to South Carolina, but none…
NU coach Fletcher claims top Women’s Western award
Emily Fletcher may not have been the best known of the 22 winners of the Women’s Western Golf Association’s Woman of Distinction Award, but she certainly was a popular choice at the group’s annual meeting and luncheon on Thursday at Indian Hill Club in Winnetka. Fletcher received two standing ovations while accepting an award that…
Will the U.S. meltdown at Medinah carry over to Hazeltine?
CHASKA, Minnesota – The last Ryder Cup played on American soil came four years ago at Medinah. The next one is here this week at Hazeltine National. Though Medinah and Hazeltine aren’t rivals, there’s bound to be comparisons on and off the course as the 41st Ryder Cup unfolds. In a meltdown of epic proportions…
Arnold Palmer’s passion for golf was infectious — and I’m proof of that
Arnold Palmer is gone. Where do I begin to tell you how impactful this is to golf – and to me personally? I’m not sure I would have taken up this sport – one that I love with a passion but don’t play very well – had it not been for Arnold Palmer. It was…
There’s no course, but sprawling Biltmore Estate has a connection to golf
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina – This city in the Blue Ridge Mountains, just over the Kentucky line, isn’t the first place that left me wanting to stay longer – just the latest one. An interesting place, Asheville. It’s been called the “Hippie Hideaway of the South.’’ Its downtown hangouts reminded us of a miniature New Orleans…
Streelman, Urlacher hook up on Wilson’s Driver vs. Driver TV series
Another PGA Tour season ended for Wheaton’s Kevin Streelman and Luke Donald, the former Northwestern star, at Sunday’s BMW Championship in Indiana. Both failed to qualify The Tour Championship – last event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs – in Atlanta next week and won’t be competing in the Ryder Cup matches the week after that…
Ted Bishop’s book addresses much more than his PGA impeachment
It took considerable time to find the book “Unfriended: The Power Brokers, Political Correctness and Hypocrisy in Golf.’’ That’s Ted Bishop’s account of the events surrounding his controversial impeachment as president of the PGA of America. Apparently it’s most readily found as a Nook offering. At least that’s how I found it. After getting Bishop’s…