BOCA RATON, Florida – PGA Tour Champions had a popular kickoff to its season with the Allianz Championship on the North Course at Broken Sound Golf Club. That sponsorship ended after the 12th playing of the event last year, but – other than a name change to the Boca Raton Championship – the event will…
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Collapse in Boston could haunt Leishman in final round of BMW Championship
Marc Leishman is hardly a household name in the golf world but – if he can hold his game together – he will likely win the BMW Championship today and be in a great position to win the FedEx Cup’s $10 million bonus next week in Atlanta. The question is, can he hold his game…
Day is back in the BMW spotlight at Conway Farms
Another Australian golfer may be leading the BMW Championship, but the story halfway through the third of four FedEx Cup Playoff events has been Jason Day. Day was the world’s No. 1-ranked golfer at the start of 2017. Then things went downhill, but they’re definitely on the upswing entering today’s Round 3 of the $8,750,000…
Playing in the Myrtle Beach World Amateur was an unforgettable experience
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina – It’s definitely a competition, but it also has the friendly touches of an outing as well. The Myrtle Beach World Amateur Handicap Championship is golf event like no other. With over 3,000 playing in the same community at the same time, a case could be made that it’s the biggest…
Indian Hill’s Schumacher finds Medinah No. 1 to his liking in IPGA tourney
The Illinois PGA Championship has brought together the area’s top club professionals for 95 years, and Wednesday’s wrapup to the latest 54-hole test was one of the strangest. Only one player seemed to want to win it. Adam Schumacher, in his fourth season as an assistant pro at Indian Hill Club in Winnetka, went on…
Flavin joins Ogrin in a prominent place in Illinois Open history
Patrick Flavin was hoping that his six-stroke lead going into Wednesday’s final round of the 68th Illinois Open at The Glen Club, in Glenview, would be enough to get him through the final 18. It wasn’t. Flavin wasn’t as sharp as he was in the first two days, when he shot a pair of 64s,…
Ogrin could get company in Illinois Open record books
This could be really big. Just six players have won titles in both the Illinois State Amateur and Illinois Open, and only David Ogrin swept both tournaments in the same year. That was 37 years ago. Today Ogrin, who continued on to a solid career on the PGA Tour, could get some company. Highwood’s Patrick…
Longest Western Amateur playoff in 115 years goes to Oregon’s Xiong
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…
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…