A golfer standing on the ninth tee at Tam O’Shanter Golf Course in Niles faces a short shot across the North Branch of the Chicago River. The green ahead was once the 18th green of a championship course. In 1953, Lew Worsham sent a wedge shot across the same stretch of water, watched it drop into ...

In 2026, Charlie Nikitas reached the 18th green at The Club at Wynstone with a chance to finish an extraordinary Illinois Open. He made birdie, completed 54 holes at 20 under par and set a championship scoring record. Yet his four-stroke victory had hardly felt assured: Pierce Grieve had pressed ...

While coincidentally occurring during the same week as the 25th anniversary of the 9/11/2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New Your City, there was something more uplifting to celebrate here for Chicago golfers. The Glen Club, one of the Chicago area’s premier golf and hospitality ...

? Every golfer has experienced the gap between knowing and doing. An instructor explains where the club should be, how the body should rotate and when the weight should shift. For a few swings, everything works. The contact improves, the ball flies toward the target and the correction feels ...

The golf world will turn its attention to Chicago when the 2026 Presidents Cup arrives at Medinah Country Club September 22–27. Competition between the United States and International teams will take place September 24–27 on Medinah’s recently renovated Course No. 3, the celebrated venue that also ...

The Evans Scholars Invitational will move to Stonebridge Country Club in Aurora for the first time in 2027. The Western Golf Association announced on September 8, 2026, that the Tom Fazio-designed private club will host the Korn Ferry Tour tournament July 19–25, 2027. The move brings one of the ...

For more than a century, Idlewild Country Club has occupied a special place in the golf-rich landscape of Chicago’s south suburbs. The private club in Flossmoor has hosted an important early professional tournament, preserved the work of a notable Golden Age architect and built a close-knit ...

Golf may not involve the constant running found in other sports, but walking 18 holes can still put considerable stress on the feet. Even golfers who ride spend hours standing on hard surfaces, navigating uneven ground and generating force through their feet during every swing. That accumulated ...

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Black Sheep Golf Club does not have the century-old history of many of Chicago’s most celebrated private clubs. It has never hosted a U.S. Open, Western Amateur or PGA Tour event. Its clubhouse was not designed to accommodate lavish weddings, formal dinners or an extensive social calendar. That ...

A Chicago Golf Report synthesis — organized and named from ideas described by Hallam Morgan of FlowCode. Morgan did not name or structure this framework himself; the underlying tools — the golf-bag analogy, the four ways to shift state, the post-shot routine, the great shot book, and the flow ...

Golf courses are often evaluated by the quality of their greens, the interest of their layouts and the overall experience they provide golfers. The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County considers those factors—but also asks what else its golf properties can do for the surrounding community. ...