VALENTINE, Neb. – The first thing you notice as you approach the Prairie Club in the sandhills of Nebraska is what’s not there. You cruise through the “big’’ town of Valentine (population 2,830) and 17 miles later you see the first indication that a big-time golf resort is nearby. It’s just a small sign saying…
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Nebraska’s new Tatanka course has buffalo among its many special features
NIOBRARA, Neb. – Unfortunately, this doesn’t happen much anymore. New courses are rare, and most of those are created as renovations. They’re not really built from scratch; they’re built over existing golf courses. It’s great that there are more renovations now than there were the last few, economically difficult, years. Some are good-looking courses, like…
HERE AND THERE: Harbour Town’s course has re-opened
With the golf season in the Midwest winding down, it’s a good time to check out what’s been happening at golf’s best travel destinations – and there’s been plenty. Our first golf/travel notebook of the fall begins at one of America’s most famous courses. The famed Harbour Town course at Sea Pines Resort in Hilton…
Web.com Tour is coming back — at Ivanhoe in 2016
Ivanhoe Club will host the Rust-Oleum Championship — a full field event on the PGA Tour’s satellite circuit – from June 6-12 in 2016. The event was played at Lakewood Country Club’s West course in suburban Cleveland the last two years. Shane Bertsch was the champion of last year’s Rust-Oleum Championship, which offered a $600,000…
Speedgolf, FootGolf find their way to Chicago area courses
With the exception of the Presidents Cup team event, coming up in Korea in two weeks, the PGA Tour’s 2014-15 season is over. Jordan Spieth’s win in the FedEx Cup playoffs on Sunday brought it to a dramatic conclusion. In the Chicago area, though, there’s still a few events on the October calendar including two…
New practice area at Conway Farms dazzled BMW players, fans
PGA Tour players see a lot of golf courses and, somewhat amazingly, they remember – at least in general terms – what most of them look like. That wasn’t quite the case when the top 70 players in the FedEx Cup Playoffs gathered at Conway Farms in Lake Forest in September for the BMW Championship….
Nadler family has impacted Chicago golf in many ways
Theirs is a success story unlike most others in the world of golf. For starters, the Aurora-based Nadler clan has the longevity factor going. Nadler Golf Cars has been in business over 50 years and is still going strong. Through it all, it’s remained a family business that is now a third-generation operation servicing nearly…
Zach Johnson has no qualms about his No. 6 FedEx ranking
The Tour Championship, which tees off on Thursday at East Lake in Atlanta, brings an end to the PGA Tour’s 2014-15 season and Zach Johnson is in an interesting position. Only 30 players qualified for the 72-hole event that has an $8.25 prize fund and offers an additional $10 million bonus to the winner of…
Day finishes the job in BMW, becomes golf’s newest No. 1
As has been the case in all four rounds of the BMW Championship, Sunday was Jason Day’s day. He led the $8.25 million championship wire to wire, but his victory – Day’s fourth in his last six starts – had more meaning. Not only did Day stay atop the FedEx Cup Playoff standings, he also…
Day cools off, but still takes suspense out of BMW Championship
It would have been asking a lot for Jason Day to keep scoring the way he had been during the first two days of the BMW Championship. After all, the 27-year old Australian led by four strokes after shooting a course record 10-under-par 61 in Round 1 at Conway Farms in Lake Forest and his…