The miserable weather that plagued the NCAA women’s golf championship last week unfortunately carried over to the men’s event as well. Friday’s first round of the men’s competition at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove couldn’t be completed, and Big Ten champion Illinois is one of the teams with holes left to play today before…
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Runner-up finish in NCAA tourney doesn’t faze NU women golfers
A national championship eluded the Northwestern women’s golf team Wednesday, but you wouldn’t have known it by their post-tournament meeting with the media. It was non-stop clowning until coach Emily Fletcher was called on to reflect on the weeks’ surprising developments. NU had a so-so regular season, was dethroned as Big Ten champion and finished…
Rainouts shorten NCAA Women’s, Legends tourneys
Saturday was not a good day for all the top women golfers who are visiting for two big tournaments. Both the NCAA Division I Women’s Championship at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove and the $300,000 Red Nose Walgreen’s Charity Classic, for players on the LPGA Legends Tour, were rained out. No balls were struck…
Miserable weather can’t derail fast NCAA start by NU women golfers
The Northwestern women’s golf team couldn’t repeat as conference champions; the Wildcats were runner-up to Michigan State. And, they couldn’t win their NCAA regional, either. NU was second to Alabama in that one. Coach Emily Fletcher’s team was no bridesmaid in Friday’s first round of the NCAA Women’s Championship, however. The day may have been…
NU women golfers are in spotlight as NCAA tees off at Rich Harvest
The golf version of the NCAA Championships tees off Friday at Rich Harvest Farms. The women go first in the competition that will keep the private layout in Sugar Grove a busy place until the last putt drops in the men’s tournament on May 31. Northwestern is the “home team’’ in the women’s competition. Coach…
Billiter survives unusual final in Illinois PGA Match Play tourney
There was a sharp contrast between the players in Thursday’s final of the 66th Illinois PGA Match Play Championship at Kemper Lakes in Kildeer. Both Danny Mulhearn, the head professional at Glen Oak in Glen Ellyn, and Jim Billiter, in his first year as Kemper’s head man, were past champions of the event – but…
Northwestern freshman paces U.S. Open local at Midlane
The first tee shot of 117th U.S. Open at Wisconsin’s Erin Hills course, is still five weeks away but the battle to get there got into full swing this week with one notable surprise. Northwestern freshman Everton Hawkins not only survived one of the local qualifying rounds, he was also the medalist. The U.S. Golf…
Kemper awaits another IPGA Match Play, then will be a tour stop again
Kemper Lakes, for 28 years, has been a focal point for tournament golf in the Chicago area and it’ll again host the first big local tournament of the season this month. The 66th staging of the Illinois PGA Match Play Championship, however, will have some new looks. Within the last year Kemper Lakes has completed…
NU, Illini women receive NCAA golf bids
Northwestern and Illinois were both selected to play in the NCAA women’s golf championship, the finals of which will be played at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove next month. To get to Rich Harvest, however, both teams must survive regional tournaments. Coach Emily Fletcher’s Northwestern team was awarded the No. 3 seed in a…
PGA Tour braces for first Bay Hill tourney without Palmer
ORLANDO, Florida – Tuesday is usually the quiet day at PGA Tour stops. It’s the time in between pro-am days when players have the course and practice facilities to themselves to get ready for the start of competition on Thursday. That wasn’t the case at Bay Hill Club Tuesday, as players, officials and spectators braced…