Posts Tagged BMW Championship

• Champions Golf Tour Event Coming to Chicago?

  Despite being the third largest media market in the country according to Arbitron, Chicago will be without a returning professional golf tour for at least the next few years. There will be multiple chicago golf area events in the near future, including the 2012 Ryder Cup and probably the 2013 BMW Ch...

• 2013 BMW Championship Coming to Conway Farms

  The 2013 BMW Championship could be returning to Chicago, at the home course of the world's top player. According to a report in the Chicago Tribune, the 2013 BMW Championship will be contested at Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest. Conway Farms' most familiar member is Northwestern alum Luke Dona...

• Local PGA Tour Pros Show Jemseks No Respect

  The complaining was loud and consistent at last week's BMW Championship from three of the top players in the game, including two with local ties. Phil Mickelson continued his long simmering feud with Rees Jones by trashing Jones' redesign of Cog Hill Golf & Country Club and even suggesting other gol...

• Dustin Johnson and Ernie Banks Play Golf at Wrigley Field

  2010 BMW Championship winner Dustin Johnson is a five-time winner on the PGA Tour is one of the longest hitters in golf. "Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks hit 512 home runs during his 19-year baseball career with the Chicago Cubs. Banks was also elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977. This unlikely sp...

• Cog Hill Ready for 2011 BMW Championship

  In what could be its last appearance at Cog Hill Golf and Country Club in Lemont, Ill., the BMW Championship is hoping for much better turf conditions than they experienced in 2010. To help prevent a repeat of last year, Cog Hill hired Scott Pavalko, as their new golf course superintendent overseein...