The Chicago District Golf Association won’t announce its 2024 tournament schedule until Dec. 6 but it will include two major additions. For 90 years the Illinois Women’s Golf Association, a group based downstate, conducted the Illinois Women’s State Amateur as well as its state championship for senior players. With IWGA membership dwindling, those events would…
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Illinois Golf Hall of Fame will get six new members
The Illinois Golf Hall of Fame will induct its 20th class on Friday, Nov. 10, and selection committee chairman Tim Cronin says “it couldn’t be more diverse or vibrant.’’ Heading the six-member class are two long-time club professionals, Tim O’Neal and Bruce Patterson, and Dr. Randy Kane, who served as the first Chicago District Golf…
Mistwood’s Mickelson is Illinois PGA’s Player of the Year
Andy Mickelson, the director of golf at Mistwood in Romeoville, is the Illinois PGA’s Player of the Year. He did it with only one win, in the section’s first stroke play event, but his consistency in 10 other competitions earned him enough Bernardi Player of the Year points to win the prestigious honor. “Winning…
Here are the two main reasons why Europe claimed the Ryder Cup
There’s no need to rehashing this Ryder Cup. Europe’s 16 ½-11 ½ win in Italy on Sunday was marked by extraordinary emotion, some controversy and more frustration for Team USA, which hasn’t won on foreign soil since 1993. It was, at least, great theater and there’ll be more of that when the competition is played…
DeChambeau adds to debate about U.S. Ryder Cup team picks
The results of Sunday’s LIV Chicago tourney at Rich Harvest Farms create the need for another look at the U.S. team for this week’s Ryder Cup in Italy. Captain Zach Johnson has been criticized for passing on Keegan Bradley as a captain’s pick and choosing Justin Thomas, who had a disappointing (for him) season, instead. …
DeChambeau beats his own teammate to win LIV title
Golf drama doesn’t get any better than this. Bryson DeChambeau delivered it in Illinois for the third time on Sunday to win the LIV Chicago tournament at Rich Harvest Farms, in Sugar Grove. In 2015 he won the U.S. Amateur at Olympia Fields, and in 2017 he captured the first of his seven PGA…
Munoz leads LIV; Koepka struggles with Ryder Cup closing in
You’d think this week’s LIV tourney would – with all its crowd noise, music and other distractions – offer Brooks Koepka good preparation for next week’s Ryder Cup in Italy. Koepka is the only LIV player on either the U.S. or European teams and he’ll be in his fourth straight Ryder Cup. LIV has…
Garcia among LIV leaders after raucous round at Rich Harvest
The second version of the LIV Tour’s Chicago stop at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove got off to a rousing start Friday, complete with blaring music and a countdown that created excitement for a crowd that resembled last year’s even less-than-ideal weather. Four parachute jumpers landed on the 18th green seconds before defending champion…
Gooch is the man to watch at Rich Harvest
The big stars were Cameron Smith and Dustin Johnson when the LIV Tour made its Chicago debut at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove last year. No surprise there. Smith was the reigning British Open titlist and will be the defending champion when the Saudi-backed circuit returns to Rich Harvest this week. Johnson, winner of…
LIV Tour has found Chicago a welcoming place
The LIV Tour was a controversial mystery when it made its first Chicago appearance last year at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove. This week the Saudi-back circuit returns and its TV host, Jerry Foltz, can’t wait. Pre-tournament festivities are on tap for Wednesday and Thursday before the 54-hole tournament tees off on Friday….