With a resume that includes accolades from Golf Magazine as the Best Public Course in Illinois, GolfWeek – No. 24 Best 2008 Tour Courses You Can Play and Zaget Survey – America’s Top 50 Golf Courses 2003-2005, The Glen Club comes with lofty expectations. What’s surprising is that from the first contact at the bag […]
Illinois Golf Legend Dick Hart
Illinois PGA Hall of Fame member Dick Hart passed away recently in Covington, LA at the age of 78. Dick was a member of the PGA and was the head golf professional at Hinsdale Golf Club. For 43 years, Hart worked at Hinsdale Golf Club, which is one only 15 golf clubs in the Chicago […]
2013 Illinois Golf Hall of Fame Class
While the true physical colors of the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame are observed to be brown woodgrained trim on the walls and white marble flooring, come October 25 when the class of 2013 will be inducted into the state’s golfing hall of fame in Glenview, IL, the colors will sentimentally take on new hues […]
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 Country […]
Illinois Golf Hall of Fame to Add Four
The Illinois Golf Hall of Fame will add four new members on October 21st at The Glen Club in Glenview. The honorees are Steve Benson of Buffalo Grove, the late Robert A. Gardner of Hinsdale, Sherm Finger of Lake Bluff and Paul Voykin of Lake Bluff. Steve Benson, 64, is one of the most decorated […]
