The Chicago area was at the forefront of women’s golf long before the creation of the Ladies Professional Golf Association in 1950. The arrival of the UL International Crown this month at the Merit Club is just the latest of the big women’s events staged in this neck of the woods. Granted, the UL International…
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Team Thailand predicts a victory in the International Crown
The eight teams that will play in next months’ UL International Crown at the Merit Club were determine via the world ranks a month ago. On Monday the four players who will compete for each team were unveiled. Players had until Sunday’s conclusion of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in Seattle to get their rankings…
Homa overcomes 7-stroke deficit to win Rust-Oleum title
Sunday’s final round of the $600,000 Rust-Oleum Championship figured to be a two-man battle. No one was within six strokes of front-runners Josh Teater and Dan Woltman at the start of play and Max Homa was even further back than that. Homa, though, didn’t see such a result as a foregone conclusion. He started the…
Monday qualifier challenges Teater in Rust-Oleum Championship
The $600,000 Rust-Oleum Championship is Josh Teater’s to lose on Sunday. There’s no doubt about that. But he’d better look out for his surprise playing partner. Dan Woltman earned his spot in the final pairing at Ivanhoe Club after shooting 67 in Saturday’s third round. He stands three strokes behind Teater’s front-running 204, which is…
Teater finds his Web.com comfort zone at Rust-Oleum Championship
Josh Teater was a PGA Tour member from 2010 until 2014, then things changed, After making 144 PGA starts and posting 11 top-10 finishes, he could get into only 11 tournaments on the PGA Tour last year. He wound up playing in 10 on the developmental Web.com Tour to supplement his schedule and that didn’t…
Cooks make a great team in first round of Rust-Oleum Championship
Austin Cook may have come the farthest in the shortest amount of time to play in the Rust-Oleum Championship, but it paid off in Thursday’s first round. Cook completed in the Web.com Tour’s stop in the Dominican Republic on Sunday. Then came a three-plus hour flight to Memphis with a longer-than-expected layover in Atlanta. Then…
Illinois Women’s Amateur will be played in Rockford — but without IWO champion
Unfortunately Illinois female golfers don’t have the same, more-than-ample, competitive opportunities that their male counterparts enjoy. This June, though, offers the first of the annual highlights for the women’s season in the state. The Illinois Women’s Amateur will be played for the 83rd time at Forest Hills Country Club in Rockford from June 14-17. You’ve…
Mediate’s Senior PGA victory defies the imagination
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. – This really didn’t make much sense. Rocco Mediate had failed to break 70 in all 22 of his rounds on the Champions Tour this year – and the 50-and-over circuit is known for yielding much lower scores. Not only that, but Mediate had never won a major title on either the…
Mediate keeps Senior PGA lead — but Montgomerie is closing in
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. – Rocco Mediate may be one of the more colorful players in professional golf, but – until this week’s 77th Senior PGA Championship – he had gone eight years without contending for a major title. Mediate, despite having a solid career, has never won one of golf’s big ones. In his last…
Glen View’s Bauer wins IPGA Match Play title in a walk
Very few players in Illinois PGA tournaments walk their rounds. Kyle Bauer, the 11-year head pro at the Glen View club, is one who does. He doesn’t think it puts him at a competitive disadvantage, and Thursday he proved it. Bauer captured the 65th playing of the Illinois PGA Match Play Championship at Kemper Lakes…