The Western Amateur golf tournament has been played for 115 years, and it never had a championship match as dramatic as the one that Norman Xiong and Doc Redman put on Saturday at Skokie Country Club in Glencoe. Xiong won it on the fourth playoff hole when Redman missed a 12-foot par-saving putt. Until Saturday…
Tournament Reports
Hardy is the only local to make it to match play in Western Amateur
The 115th Western Amateur was hardly a rousing success for the seven Chicago players among the 156 invitees to the prestigious event at Skokie Country Club in Glencoe. Only Nick Hardy, the senior-to-be at Illinois from Northbrook, advanced to the Sweet 16 during Thursday’s 36-hole day that concluded stroke play qualifying. Hardy shot 67-69 in…
Flavin overcomes Hahn’s 61, wins Illinois State Amateur
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…
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…
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…
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…
With Hardy, Kelly missing this Illinois Amateur will be a wide open affair
July’s 87th playing of the Illinois State Amateur will be – at the very least – different. The prestigious championship will be contested over 72 holes from July 18-20 at Calumet Country Club in Homewood. None of the 86 previous stagings of the State Am were played at Calumet, though the private layout is one…