What a difference a day makes. On Wednesday Jordan Hahn shot a 61 – the lowest round in the 87-year history of the Illinois State Amateur as well as the best ever recorded at Calumet Country Club, which opened its doors in 1901. On that magical day Hahn, a University of Wisconsin golfer from Spring…
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IWO champ Farnsworth followed in her coach’s footsteps
Aimee Neff had good memories from winning the Phil Kosin Illinois Women’s Open as an amateur in 2008 and 2009. Now an assistant coach at Vanderbilt University, she suggested that one of her players, Alexandra Farnsworth, use the IWO as a tuneup for her senior season at the Nashville, Tenn., school. Farnsworth took Neff’s advice…
IWO, State Am titles will be decided in a two-day stretch
The biggest glut of tournament golf in the Chicago area in many years reached the overload stage this week with two of the most important championships sharing almost identical dates. The 23rd Illinois Women’s Open concludes its three-day run on Wednesday at Mistwood, in Romeoville, and the 87th Illinois State Amateur wraps up its three…
DeChambeau is the latest first-time winner of the JDC
SILVIS, Ill. – Illinois golf and Bryson DeChambeau seem to be a perfect fit. DeChambeau won the U.S. Amateur at Olympia Fields in 2015 and now he’s also the champion of the John Deere Classic. The JDC, in fact, produced his first victory on the PGA Tour. Few doubted that DeChambeau would be a budding…
Streelman, Hardy are lurking behind Rodgers in John Deere Classic
SILVIS, Ill. – If local players should shine at any PGA Tour event, it’d be at the John Deere Classic – the only annual stop on golf’s premier circuit in Illinois. Two are doing just fine through three rounds of this year’s $5.6 million tournament that concludes today. Whether either Wheaton’s Kevin Streelman or Northbrook’s…
Trish Johnson is wire-to-wire winner of first Senior LPGA Championship
FRENCH LICK, Ind. – The first Senior LPGA Championship presented by Old National Bank had a lot of things – historical significance. television coverage, beautiful weather. The Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort received the world-wide attention it has long deserved. What the inaugural staging didn’t have was suspense. England’s Trish Johnson, winner of…
Moore returns to PGA Tour in hopes of defending JDC title
The John Deere Classic, Illinois’ only annual PGA Tour event, tees off for the 47th time on Thursday at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, on the outskirts of the Quad Cities. For defending champion Ryan Moore that means a return to the PGA Tour at the course that took his career to a new level…
Johnson plays like `rubbish,’ but still leads Senior LPGA tourney
FRENCH LICK, Ind. – Scotland’s Trish Johnson described the golf she played in the second round of the Senior LPGA Championship on Tuesday as “rubbish.’’ Still, when the day was over on the rugged Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort, Johnson’s lead dropped only one stroke from the start of the day. She played…
Johnson grabs first-round lead in inaugural Senior LPGA Championship
FRENCH LICK, Ind. – Monday’s first round of the Senior LPGA Championship was more about history than anything else. Winds gusting to 33 miles per hour prevented spectacular scoring – with one exception. Scotland’s Trish Johnson, no stranger to the Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort, made five birdies in her last 12 holes…
After 57 years Murle Breer is competing again on Ross Course at French Lick.
FRENCH LICK, Ind. – How significant is the first Senior LPGA Championship that tees off today on the Pete Dye Course here? Well, it’s so important that Murle Breer was willing to come out of a long hibernation from tournaments to be involved in big-time golf just one more time. Breer is 78 years old…