Two professional golf tour personalities were spotted recently at Medinah Country Club during the BMW Championship handing out free samples of beef jerky. Jeff King has caddied for more than two decades on the PGA and LPGA tours; Candie Kung enjoyed a successful career on the LPGA Tour through 2018. Therefore the subscript and equation […]
Tournament Week at the BMW Championship
The FedEx Cup’s BMW Championship rolls into town this week on four imported tires stopping at famed Medinah Country Club with slight tweaks to the usual FedEx Cup series format. Former Indianapolis Colts head coach, Jim Mora, once said “playoffs?” and now PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan says “payoffs!”. For the 2019 FedEx Cup series […]
Ridgemoor CC & The Glen Club Are the Battlegrounds for the Illinois Open
“It’s robot fightin’ time!” is the catch phrase used by the announcer on the Science Channel TV series Battlebots that lets the audience know that the action is about to begin. Not quite as destructive, but surely as intense, when the Illinois Section PGA announces “it’s Illinois Open time” the action is about to begin […]
Local Residents Are Winners on ABC’s Holey Moley
Could it be that Chicago Golf Report was a trendsetter ahead of its time, when in 2012, my article about the area’s most unusual mini golf course — the ‘gruesome’ miniature course in the basement Alhgrim’s Funeral Home on Northwest Hwy in Palatine — was posted? Now, fast forward to a 2019 summer TV show […]
The Boom in Women’s Golf Continues with the Women’s Western Amateur
All the numbers point in the direction that there is a current boom in women’s golf. At the professional level, the number of tournaments on the 2019 LPGA schedule is up by one over 2018, and the total purse in 2019 will feature an LPGA tour-record $70.55 million in total prize money, surpassing the 2018 […]
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