Located about 75 miles from downtown Chicago sits one of the most heralded private golf clubs in North America. The Dunes Club is located in New Buffalo, Michigan and is so unique and low key that there’s no signage anywhere on the exterior of the course. In fact, I drove right past the front entrance […]
Chicago: Pro Golf’s Tournament Paradox
Golf is booming. While the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down many sports and leisure activities, golf is an exception. The sport allows players to be active, connect with nature and be social — all in a safe and relaxed environment. These statements are especially true and correct about golf in Chicago. The most recent numbers […]
Tournament Week at The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
“East Side, West Side, all around the town” are the opening lyrics to the song ‘Sidewalks of New York’, but if lyricists James W. Blake and Charles E. Lawlor had been commissioned to compose a song about our city’s two-year hosting of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, the song would have begun “South side, North […]
Garrett Chaussard – Goal Setting and Gamification in Golf Instruction
Our guest this episode is Garrett Chaussard, who is the director of Instruction at Skokie Country Club and winner of the 2018 Illinois PGA Match Play Championship at Kemper Lakes. Prior to teaching, Garrett played golf at the University of Illinois and competed on the PGA Tour of Canada. In this interview with Garrett, we […]
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 Championship, but no event […]
