Our guest this episode is the Senior Vice President of tournaments within the Western Golf Association, Vince Pellegrino. You can learn more about Vince and the Western Golf Association at wgaesf.org. In this interview with Vince, we learn: How winning an Evans Scholarship impacted his life Why the Western Golf Association started in Chicago How […]
The Common Thread For Imperial’s Centennial in Golf
The game of golf is a unique combination of the past and the present, featuring a history that dates back over 600 years. The Old Course at St Andrews is known as the “home of golf” because the sport was first played there in the early 1400s. In 1894 the United States Golf Association was […]
Western Amateur Championship
The best amateurs in the world are coming to Chicago golf Aug. 2-6, for the 2011 Western Amateur at North Shore Country Club in Glenview. First conducted in 1899 at the Glen View Club, the Western Amateur championship is universally regarded as one of the major amateur golf events in the world. Characterized as “The […]
