The International team’s shocking five-match sweep on Friday was an afterthought after two sessions at Medinah on Saturday, but the U.S. could well see its winning streak in the Presidents Cup come to an end after Sunday’s 12 singles matches. A U.S. loss would be huge for the Internationals, a team that won…
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Internationals sweep Presidents Cup matches as Scheffler struggles
Scottie Scheffler has been the world’s No. 1-ranked golfer for several years, but his struggles in team play have been noteworthy for the wrong reason. Playing with good friend Sam Burns, Scheffler has struggled mightily in Presidents and Ryder Cup play. Scheffler and Burns got their first win as a team in Thursday’s opener to…
Presidents Cup emerges as a golf event like no other
MEDINAH, IL. – The first golf tournament I ever attended was on Medinah’s No. 3 course. My mother took me to the 1962 Western Open in hopes of stimulating my interest in the sport. She succeeded. I returned to Medinah many times though nearly 60 years of writing about golf for various news outlets. …
Bridgeman, Koivun show they’re ready for the Presidents Cup
The Chicago area was an annual PGA Tour site for decades, but not so recently. This week’s Presidents Cup at Medinah is the circuit’s first visit since Olympia Fields hosted the BMW Championship in 2023. While the area hosted big team events in the 2009 Solheim Cup at Rich Harvest Farms and the 2012 Ryder…
Meeting the journalists of the future
WILMINGTON, N.C. – This was a first for us. Erin Simpson, the advisor for the Laney High School Creative Writing Club, invited me to speak before about 30 student club members in their first meeting of the year. We were happy to see the turnout and the enthusiasm the students – with a wide variety…
Gotterup, Koivun highlight Presidents Cup selections
The Presidents Cup at Medinah Country Club is still three weeks away, but now the golfers who will be playing in the team event have been revealed. U.S. captain Brandt Snedeker and Geoff Ogilvy, his counterpart on the International side, completed their 12-man rosters on Tuesday. Snedeker made two most notable selections in his six…
Clark earns one of six automatic spots on U.S. Presidents Cup team
Wyndham Clark didn’t just win the $3.6 million first prize in the PGA Tour’s second FedEx Cup Playoff event on Sunday. He also earned one of the six automatic spots on the U.S. team for next month’s Presidents Cup at Medinah. Clark had been No. 7 in the FedEx standings going into the BMW Championship…
BMW tourney will impact the U.S. Presidents Cup picks
The BMW Championship was played at Chicago courses seven times since it replaced the Western Open on the PGA Tour schedule in 2007. Olympia Fields was the last Chicago site, in 2023, and this year’s tourney tees off on Thursday at Bellerive, in St. Louis. What happens at Bellerive, though, will have a big…
If ever there was a “Dream” baseball game, this is it
DYERSVILLE, Iowa — The “Field of Dreams” hit the theaters in 1989 with Kevin Costner starring in a movie that underscored the beauty of baseball. Joy and I watched the movie on television and loved it. That led to us squeezing in a trip to the “Field of Dreams” complex during our golf/travel writing trip…
Old Elm’s Don Wegrzyn was the ultimate PGA professional
It’s hard to imagine any Illinois club professional contributing more to golf in the state than Don Wegrzyn. Wegrzyn, who passed on at the age of 88 in Libertyville on June 11, entered golf as a caddie at the Onwentsia Club, in Lake Forest, in 1952 as he was entering his freshman year at Northern…