The $600,000 Rust-Oleum Championship is Josh Teater’s to lose on Sunday. There’s no doubt about that. But he’d better look out for his surprise playing partner. Dan Woltman earned his spot in the final pairing at Ivanhoe Club after shooting 67 in Saturday’s third round. He stands three strokes behind Teater’s front-running 204, which is…
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Teater finds his Web.com comfort zone at Rust-Oleum Championship
Josh Teater was a PGA Tour member from 2010 until 2014, then things changed, After making 144 PGA starts and posting 11 top-10 finishes, he could get into only 11 tournaments on the PGA Tour last year. He wound up playing in 10 on the developmental Web.com Tour to supplement his schedule and that didn’t…
HERE AND THERE: Opening of The Loop is a big deal at Forest Dunes
The countdown is on for the opening of one of the most talked-about American courses in years. Forest Dunes, in Roscommon, Mich., has long featured one of the most popular 18-holers in the Midwest – a Tom Weiskopf design consistently ranked among the best public layouts in the state. Now the Weiskopf design will have…
Cooks make a great team in first round of Rust-Oleum Championship
Austin Cook may have come the farthest in the shortest amount of time to play in the Rust-Oleum Championship, but it paid off in Thursday’s first round. Cook completed in the Web.com Tour’s stop in the Dominican Republic on Sunday. Then came a three-plus hour flight to Memphis with a longer-than-expected layover in Atlanta. Then…
Hardy will compete at Ivanhoe before returning to the U.S. Open
This week’s qualifying rounds for the U.S. Open couldn’t have worked out much better for Chicago’s new Web.com Tour event, which begins its 72-hole run on Thursday at Ivanhoe Club. Tournament director Scott Cassin made Nick Hardy, the University of Illinois sophomore from Northbrook, the last of his four sponsor exemptions into the Rust-Oleum Championship….
Any U.S. Open at Oakmont has a special meaning to me
It’s that time of year again. The U.S. Opens – for both the men and women – always dominate the golf world during the month of June and 2016 is no exception. Both tournaments are huge in terms of participants and historical significance. They are also organizational monsters for the U.S. Golf Association, which conducts…
Illinois Women’s Amateur will be played in Rockford — but without IWO champion
Unfortunately Illinois female golfers don’t have the same, more-than-ample, competitive opportunities that their male counterparts enjoy. This June, though, offers the first of the annual highlights for the women’s season in the state. The Illinois Women’s Amateur will be played for the 83rd time at Forest Hills Country Club in Rockford from June 14-17. You’ve…
Another great season for the Illini ends in the NCAA semifinals
Coach Mike Small has insisted that the last four seasons have been the best in the history of the Illini program, and there’s no arguing that point after what has happened in the last few weeks. The Illini trailed Iowa going into the last round of the Big Ten tournament but came back to win…
Mediate’s Senior PGA victory defies the imagination
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. – This really didn’t make much sense. Rocco Mediate had failed to break 70 in all 22 of his rounds on the Champions Tour this year – and the 50-and-over circuit is known for yielding much lower scores. Not only that, but Mediate had never won a major title on either the…
Mediate keeps Senior PGA lead — but Montgomerie is closing in
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. – Rocco Mediate may be one of the more colorful players in professional golf, but – until this week’s 77th Senior PGA Championship – he had gone eight years without contending for a major title. Mediate, despite having a solid career, has never won one of golf’s big ones. In his last…