BELLAIRE, FL. – The Pelican Championship, the last regular season tournament on the Ladies PGA Tour, reached only its halfway point on Friday but the week has already been a big success for Christina Kim. The 37-year old LPGA veteran is lucky to be in the field. She came up one shot short of making…
Tournament Reports
Late qualifier Malm repeats in IPGA Players
Curtis Malm, may have been the defending champion in the Illinois PGA Players Championship this week, but he was lucky to even be in the field. The 36 players invited into the last of the IPGA’s four major tournaments is determined off a season-long point list, and Malm was one spot out until Shaun McElroy,…
U.S. dominates in this Ryder Cup
HAVEN, Wis.—The longstanding U.S. frustrations in the Ryder Cup are over. After losing to Europe in four of the previous five meetings and seven of the last nine captain Steve Stricker found a combination of young players who dominated the 43rd staging of golf’s premier team event at Whistling Straits. In fact, this American team…
Could this be the day the U.S. reclaims the Ryder Cup?
HAVEN, Wis. – If it wasn’t for a nightmarish day nine years ago the United States golfers and their supporters would already be in a celebratory mood at Whistling Straits. The U.S. went 3-1 in Saturday’s morning foursome matches for the third straight session to open a 9-3 lead. The Europeans had their best session…
At least there’s hope for the U.S. after great start in Ryder Cup
HAVEN, Wis. – Beautiful weather greeted the 40,000 spectators when the 43rd Ryder Cup teed off Fridays. So did massive traffic jams on the rural roads that surround Whistling Straits. At the end of the day, though, there was at least hope for the American side that has been dominated by the Europe in in…
Stricker in the spotlight at Ryder Cup Opening Ceremonies
HAVEN, Wis. – Thursday’s Opening Ceremonies for the 43rd Ryder Cup was not without the unexpected. U.S. captain Steve Stricker provided it. First Stricker broke into tears while introducing his wife and daughters to a standing room only crowd who ignored a late afternoon rain to gather at the Dye Pavilion at Whistling Straits. “I…
Stonebridge fits Tee-K Kelly’s golf game to a tee
Tee-K Kelly was the whole show at the 72nd Illinois Open, no question about that. The Wheaton resident, Ohio State alum and Medinah Country Club member led wire-to-wire in winning the biggest event for Illinois resident. He was a record-tying 17-under-par, posting a 54-hole score of 199 at Stonebridge Country Club in Aurora. His rounds…
Fast start at John Deere Classic shows how much progress Ghim is making
SILVIS, IL. – Being a rookie on the PGA Tour isn’t easy. Doug Ghim, who got to golf’s premier circuit after growing up in Arlington Heights, is making headway and Thursday’s first round of the John Deere Classic provided proof of that. Ghim came into the JDC with $1,152,732 in season winnings and had…
Illini alum Nowlin is now two-for-two in state open tourneys
Tristyn Nowlin finally won a big golf tournament at Mistwood on Wednesday. The University of Illinois graduate student from Richmond, Ky., who turned pro two weeks ago, was a runner-up on the Romeoville course twice in 2018. That year she dropped a match play final to Emilee Hoffman in the Women’s Western Amateur and was…
Nowlin leads in a day of memories at the Illinois Women’s Open
Tuesday marked the start of the biggest six days of tournament golf in Illinois this year. The 26th Phil Kosin Illinois Women’s Open, at Mistwood in Romeoville, started things off with a 36-hole session. The final round is Wednesday (TODAY) and then the PGA Tour’s John Deere Classic begins its four-day run on Thursday in…