Posts Tagged Olympia Fields Country Club
-
2012 Junior Ryder Cup at Olympia Fields Country Club
With two PGA Championships, two U.S. Open Championships and the 1997 U.S. Senior Open, Olympia Fields Country Club in no stranger to hosting prestigous golf events. The renowned country club will get another shot on September 24 and 25 as it hosts the 2012 Junior Ryder Cup. Days before Davis Love II...
-
Middle Market Open at Olympia Fields Country Club
The Middle Market Open benefitting the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois will take place at Olympia Fields Country Club on July 30. This is the premier golf event for the Midwest middle market deal-making community. The National Kidney Foundation of Illinois is a non-profit organization that he...
-
Legendary Chicago Golf Course Superintendent Paul Voykin
May 2012 is the month when the TPC-Sawgrass will host the world's best golfers competing for the PGA Tour's biggest purse of the year ($9.5 million). But during this same month of May, Paul Voykin, the most recent inductee into the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame, the man who saw grass grow at Briarwood ...
-
Chicago Golf Course Connections to the Masters
When Augusta National Golf Club opened for play in January of 1933, there were over 150 golf courses already in operation in the Chicagoland area. Among those Chicago golf courses was the first 18-hole golf course in the United States, Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton. By 1933, six Chicago golf courses ...
-
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...
