Wheaton’s Kevin Streelman, at 45 years old, is finishing up his 17th season on the PGA Tour. This isn’t one of his best ones, but he achieved a significant milestone at last week’s Sanderson Farms Championship in Mississippi. Streelman made his 300th career cut on golf’s premier circuit. There have been 9,711 golfers who…
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Medinah goes on the clock as host club for the 2026 Presidents Cup
There was cause for celebration at Medinah Country Club when the last putt dropped in the Presidents Cup Sunday in Montreal. That meant that Medinah, already rich in golf history, went on the clock for another place in golf history. Medinah, celebrating its centennial this year, will host the next Presidents Cup from Sept. 14-20…
LIV players love Chicago, but tour’s return in 2025 is uncertain
Chicago has had a LIV golf tournament all three years since the Saudi-backed circuit started play in 2022. Last week’s stop at Bolingbrook Golf Club produced a LIV attendance record for its tournaments held in the U.S. and the two before that at Rich Harvest Farms, in Sugar Grove, were also well received. Still, there’s…
Koepka’s 62 overshadows Rahm-Niemann bonus battle in LIV opener
The bottom line story at the LIV Individual Championship is the battle between Spain’s Jon Rahm and Colombia’s Joaquin Niemann. They’re the only players mathematically eligible to win the $18 million bonus, to be awarded to the season-long champion after Sunday’s final round at Bolingbrook Golf Club. Neither did anything special in Friday’s first round. …
Rahm, Niemann will battle for LIV bonus money in Bolingbrook
Money. That’s what differentiates the LIV Tour’s third tournament in Chicago from the others in the circuit’s first three seasons. The event that tees off on Friday at Bolingbrook Golf Club will have the standard purse for the Saudi-backed circuit — $20 in the individual competition and $5 million in the team competition. That was…
Can DeChambeau’s magic work in Illinois again? We’ll see this week
The LIV Golf League doesn’t have a season climax to match the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs, but it does have a two-tournament wrapup to its third season, the first of which tees off Friday (SEPT. 13) at Bolingbrook Golf Club. It’s both the climax to Chicago’s golf season and the LIV Individual Championship….
Carroll’s win sets up a dramatic finish to Illinois PGA tournament season
The Illinois PGA has four major tournaments for its members each season, and Brian Carroll won the third of 2024 last week. Carroll, the head professional at The Hawk in St. Charles, captured his second Illinois PGA Professionals Championship in three years. The first, in 2022, was a springboard for Carroll to win the 2023…
Hallberg featured in IJGA’s new Hall of Fame class
The second induction class in the Illinois Junior Golf Hall of Fame will be enshrined tonight at Cantigny, in Wheaton. As was the case with last year’s first class, this one will be headed by a local golfer who went on to win multiple times on the PGA Tour. Last year it was Wheaton’s Kevin…
Illini golfers — past and present — are making a big impact
The college golf season isn’t underway yet but, no matter how you slice it, the University of Illinois is already making its presence felt at a variety of levels. Over the weekend Jackson Buchanan, an Illini senior from Dacula, Ga., advanced to the semifinals of the 124th U.S. Amateur at Hazeltine in Minnesota. Another…
Mickelson is looking forward to LIV stop at Bolingbrook
The countdown is on for the last big golf tournament of the Chicago season, and Phil Mickelson is ready for it. LIV Golf/Chicago will play the first of its two season-ending championships at Bolingbrook Golf Club Sept. 13-15. The Saudi-backed circuit played regular season events at Rich Harvest Farms, in Sugar Grove, in its…