At first glance it appeared the John Deere Classic got a bad deal when the PGA Tour moved the tournament off its usual July dates and scheduled the tourney opposite next week’s Olympics’ golf competition in Brazil. Subsequently, though, a large contingent of top players – among them JDC defending champion Jordan Spieth and world…
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U.S. players speak out on first day of International Crown week
Finally the biggest event of this Chicago golf season has arrived. The four players on Team U.S. for the second UL International Crown were the first on the course for Tuesday’s practice rounds at the Merit Club and they admitted their task in the eight-team event that tees off on Thursday will be a difficult…
IWO starts a hectic stretch of area tournaments — 4 in 10 days!
Rarely have a series of big Chicago area tournaments been condensed into such a short time frame. Beginning on Monday there will be four such events crammed into a 10-day period. First up is the 22nd Illinois Women’s Open, at Mistwood in Romeoville. The tourney’s pro-am is on Sunday and will conclude with a gala…
Thumb injury will keep Korea’s best player out of International Crown
The UL International Crown, the biggest golf event to be played in the Chicago area this season, took a hit this week with the announcement that Korean star Inbee Park will be unable to compete. Park, with a No. 3 standing in the Rolex World Ranking, was the highest-ranked player among the 32 women who…
Return to Calumet stirs more CDGA Amateur memories
The Chicago District Golf Association has conducted tournaments since 1914 and none have quite the history as its oldest one – the CDGA Amateur. The 97th playing of that tournament starts on Monday (JUNE 27) at Calumet Country Club, in Homewood. Calumet hasn’t hosted the tournament since 1947, and the last staging there created one…
Donald, Streelman join two Illini for another tough U.S. Open at Oakmont
Brian Campbell, the top player on Illinois’ golf team in 2015, was on hand to help former teammates Nick Hardy and Charlie Danielson celebrate after both qualified for the U.S. Open at last week’s sectional qualifier in Ohio. Campbell didn’t make it into this year’s Open, which tees off on Thursday at Oakmont in suburban…
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….
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…
Montgomerie goes for a three-peat in Senior PGA at Harbor Shores
As far as major championships go, this is a rare lean year in the Chicago area. Last year there was both the U.S. Amateur and the PGA Tour’s BMW Championship. The Amateur has come and gone and the BMW is taking a year away; it’ll be played at Crooked Stick in Indianapolis in September before…
Chicago’s new Web.com Tour event will be an upgrade from its predecessors
The PGA Tour is bringing its secondary circuit back to the Chicago area for the first time since 2008, but things have changed a lot since then. The Glen Club, in Glenview, hosted the LaSalle Bank (or Bank of America) Open on what was then called the Nationwide Tour through 2008 before sponsorship problems set…