• SENIOR PGA: Kohki Idoki overcomes three Champions Tour superstars ST. LOUIS – Who would have expected this? Three of the top stars in American golf were in position to win the 74th PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club on Sunday. None did. The first major title of the year on the Champions Tour instead ...
• SENIOR PGA: Perry-Cochran scenario makes for a neat story ST. LOUIS – It’s not unusual for the PGA to pair friends in the first two rounds of its tournaments. That’s why Kenny Perry and Russ Cochran played together in the first two rounds of the 74th PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club. The resu...
• IPGA MATCH PLAY: Malm notches an historic repeat Curtis Malm won both player-of-the-year awards handed out by the Illinois PGA last year, and – judging by what happened in the first of the section’s four major championships of 2013 – there’s no reason to think he won’t pull off another sweep thi...
• Northwestern golfer breaks a Luke Donald record Luke Donald was a three-time All-American and an NCAA champion for Northwestern before he went on to his brilliant career as a professional, which included his earning the status of the world’s No. 1 golfer. One of Donald’s most cherished collegiat...
• IPGA PLAYERS: Orrick wins again, but Malm sweeps player-of-the-year awards GALENA, IL. – It was a rarity when Steve Orrick won the Illinois PGA Championship in August. He was the first non-Chicago area club professional to take that title in 60 years. It wasn’t so unusual for Orrick, the head man at Country Club of Decatur, ...
• RYDER CUP: Kaymer's attitude adjustment paid off in the end Germany’s Martin Kaymer changed his attitude. For that he was rewarded Sunday with the honor of assuring the Ryder Cup would remain in Europe for two more years. Kaymer hadn’t been playing well leading into this year’s Ryder Cup. In fact he skipped ...
• RYDER CUP: Donald's fast start was the key to Europe's comeback Luke Donald did his job perfectly for Team Europe on Sunday. With his team trailing 10-6, captain Jose Maria Olazabal sent former world No. 1 and Northwestern alum Donald out first in Sunday’s singles in hopes of building some quick momentum for his...
• RYDER CUP: Poulter's five-birdie finish gives Europe some hope There may be no better match play competitor in Ryder Cup history than England’s Ian Poulter. He’s kept Team Europe alive – at least barely – through two days of the 39th staging of the event at Medinah, and he gave a pulsating finish to Saturday’s ses...
• RYDER CUP: European captain's picks were too much for Tiger Opening day at the 39th Ryder Cup didn’t go well for Team Europe on Friday, but the gang that won four of the last five competitions did win one battle. The two captain’s picks made by European captain Jose Maria Olazabal were twice as productive as ...
• U.S. MID-AMATEUR: Nathan Smith's well-earned fourth title sets a record Pittsburgh’s Nathan Smith made U.S. golf history Thursday en route to earning another coveted invitation to next April’s Masters tournament. Smith became the first four-time winner of the U.S. Mid-Amateur – the national championship for players 25 an...
• U.S. MID-AMATEUR: Smith, Rank final will be historical -- no matter who wins No golfer in the 32-year history of the U.S. Mid-Amateur has won the tournament four times. Nathan Smith could be the first to do it today at Conway Farms, in Lake Forest. Smith, from Pittsburgh, won the national championship for amateurs 25 and over ...
• BMW CHAMPIONSHIP: McIlroy is simply the best as season reaches its climax CARMEL, Ind. – Sunday’s wrapup to the BMW Championship didn’t bode well for the U.S. team’s chances in the upcoming Ryder Cup matches at Medinah. Two members of the European Ryder Cup team, Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood, played together in the next-t...
• BMW CHAMPIONSHIP: Ten-birdie round shows Mickelson is back in the groove CARMEL, Ind. – Phil Mickelson was a reluctant competitor when the Western Golf Assn. held the Western Open and its successor, the BMW Championship, at Cog Hill in Lemont. He just didn’t like the course, and said so. The results showed it, too. From h...
• ILLINOIS PGA: Finally a non-Chicago club pro wins The likelihood of Steve Orrick winning the 90th Illinois PGA Championship Wednesday didn’t seem good. No club professional from outside the Chicago area had won the event since Mike Sipula in 1952, and Orrick had two better established playing partne...
• ILLINOIS AMATEUR: Prchal ends title run by college players MARION, IL. – The college players’ domination of the Illinois State Amateur golf tournament is over. Collegians had won eight straight times until Glenview’s Quinn Prchal came through with rounds of 66-69 on Thursday at The Links at Kokopelli to no...
• WESTERN AMATEUR: Williams completes an historic sweep The Western Golf Assn. went to its present format for its Western Amateur Championship in 1956,. Calling for 72 holes of stroke play qualifying and then four rounds of match play, the 110-year old tourney is one of the most grueling in golf and few playe...
• WESTERN AMATEUR: Williams betters his own record in stroke play Chris Williams set the Western Amateur scoring record for 72 holes when he went 16-under-par last year at North Shore Country Club, in Glenview. This year, with the 110-year-old tourney moving to Exmoor, in Highland Park, he did even better. The Unive...
• ILLINOIS WOMEN'S OPEN: First three-way playoff goes to Tulane's Troyanovich The men’s Illinois Open is limited to in-state residents, the women’s version isn’t. The impact of that was clearly evident in Friday’s final round of the Phil Kosin Illinois Women’s Open at Mistwood in Romeoville. For the first time in the tourney’s...
• ILLINOIS WOMEN'S OPEN: Miller could become first high school champion In its 17 previous stagings the Illinois Women’s Open has never had a high school champion. That could change today when Stevenson’s Stephanie Miller enters the final round as the co-leader. Miller, 17, also has a great pairing for the shootout at Mi...
• ILLINOIS OPEN: New pro Scodro is thriving on state Opens Wednesday’s final round of the 63rd Illinois Open didn’t have the spectacular shots that were so abundant in Round 2, but it certainly had more drama. Recent Notre Dame graduate Max Scodro and Eric Meierdierks, the tourney’s 2010 champion, waged a tw...
• ILLINOIS OPEN: Back-to-back eagles, 263-yard hole-out ignite Round 2 Wilmette’s Eric Meierdierks shot 68s in both the first and second rounds of the 63rd Illinois Open at The Glen Club in Glenview. His second 18, on Tuesday, was the more notable on a day in which the weather was so hot players were allowed to wear shorts...
• JOHN DEERE CLASSIC: Johnson steals the thunder from Stricker this time SILVIS, IL. – Steve Stricker’s bid for an historic four-peat at the John Deere Classic fizzled on Sunday, but the end result was almost as good for an emotionally-drained gallery at TPC Deere Run. Zach Johnson, almost as popular as Stricker in the Quad...
• JOHN DEERE CLASSIC: Stricker, Johnson both have a chance to win this time SILVIS, IL. – As far as the multitudes of fans pouring into the John Deere Classic are concerned the leaderboard couldn’t be any better than this for today’s final round. Steve Stricker, going for an historic fourth straight title, is in the final tw...
• JOHN DEERE CLASSIC: Stricker's still within striking distance after Round 2 SILVIS, IL. – Steve Stricker is still very much in contention for an historic fourth straight win midway through the PGA Tour’s John Deere Classic, but the battle lines were more clearly drawn on Friday. Stricker, hoping to become only the fifth player...
• JOHN DEERE CLASSIC: Stricker within 4 of leader after Round 1 SILVIS, IL. –If Steve Stricker is to make golf history by winning the John Deere Classic for a fourth straight year he’ll have to pick up his game on the front nine of TPC Deere Run. Stricker struggled badly on the front nine in Thursday’s opening roun...
• U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN: Choi ignites another Korean celebration KOHLER, Wis. – There was a poignant moment midway through the final round of the 67th U.S. Women’s Open on Sunday. Se Ri Pak, who won the tournament at Blackwolf Run in 1998, was finishing her round just as two other Korean golfers – Na Yeon Choi a...
• U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN: Another Korean golfer is poised to win KOHLER, Wis. – There doesn’t seem to be a question about whether a South Korean golfer will contend for the U.S. Women’s Open title. After all, four players from that little country won the biggest tournament in women’s golf in the last seven years....
• U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN: This is what Wie has been waiting for KOHLER, Wis. – Finally Michelle Wie is back – well, at least for a day. Long touted as the next superstar of women’s golf, Wie fired a 6-under-par 66 in the second round of the 67th U.S. Women’s Open at Blackwolf Run on Friday, an indicati...
• CDGA AMATEUR: Rain delay was a boost for Davan Friday’s 36-hole championship match of the 93rd Chicago District Amateur was interrupted by a 2-hour 40-minute rain delay, and the break had a big impact on the outcome. Michael Davan and David Lawrence, two players who just completed their collegiat...
• SENIOR PGA: Chapman surprise win is still hard to imagine BENTON HARBOR, MI. -- To put it mildly, it’s hard to fathom Roger Chapman’s victory in the Senior PGA Championship on Sunday. In 16 full seasons (and parts of a few others) on the European PGA Tour Chapman had just one victory – in a tourney cal...
• SENIOR PGA: A Chapman breakthrough, or an Irwin comeback? BENTON HARBOR, MI. – If you look at golf’s big picture, there are two significant stories brewing going into Sunday’s final round of the 73rd Senior PGA Championship. The more obvious one is Roger Chapman, the English pro who tied the record at t...
• BIG TEN MATCH PLAY: Donald is helpful in spurring NU's three-peat BRADENTON, FL. -- The current Northwestern men’s team was no match for the Wildcats’ alumni, but taking a pasting from world No. 1 Luke Donald and his cohorts did have its upside. It prepared the Wildcats well for another un at the Big Ten Match Play ...
• BMW Championship: Rose Holds Off Senden LEMONT, IL. -- Wire-to-wire champions were rare in the 20 years that Cog Hill has hosted the PGA Tour, and European winners of the BMW Championship and its longstanding predecessor, the Western Open, were rarer still. England's Justin Rose met both cri...
• John Deere Classic: Stricker Pulls Off A Miracle SILVIS, IL:. -- Steve Stricker had 10 previous wins on the PGA Tour, but none had quite the flair of Sunday's three-peat at the John Deere Classic. Stricker, now the 20th player to win a PGA Tour event three years in a row since World War II, had a fiv...
• Western Amateur: Cantlay Upset In Final GLENVIEW, IL. -- Patrick Cantlay was the world's top-ranked amateur golfer entering Saturday's championship match of the 109th Western Amateur at North Shore Country Club in Glenview. The UCLA sophomore was low amateur at this year's U.S. Open and a top -...
• Illinois Amateur: Iowa Golfers Rule Again GLEN ELLYN, IL. -- The Illinois State Amateur seems to be turning into the Iowa Invitational. At least over the last two year's the big event for Illinois players ended up as a showcase for the University of Iowa's golf program. In 2010 Deerfield's Vin...
• Illinois Open: Another Win For New Trier HAWTHORN WOODS, IL. -- Wilmette's Philip Arouca hadn't done much in professional golf -- until he teed off in the 62nd Illinois Open at Hawthorn Woods Country Club. Then he couldn't do much of anything wrong. Arouca, 26, opened 65-67 in the 54-hole tou...
• Illinois Women's Open: A Milestone Win For Pearson ROMEOVILLE, IL. -- Wheaton's Jenna Pearson became the first golfer to win the Phil Kosin Illinois Women's Open as both an amateur and a professional when she captured the 17th staging of the event at Mistwood in Romeoville. Pearson, in her fourth year ...
• CDGA Amateur: English Is Best On Medinah No. 3 MEDINAH, IL. -- The 92nd Chicago District Amateur took an unusual twist. The championship match was played on a different course than all of the preliminary competition, but no one was complaining. Medinah Country Club played host to the tournament, an...
• U.S. Girls Junior: Thailand Golfer Is Medalist, Champion OLYMPIA FIELDS, IL. -- Ariya Jutanugarn was the easily the medalist at the 63rd U.S. Junior Girls Championship at Olympia Fields, but she was leery about getting into a match play situation with the title on the line. ``I don't like match play, because...