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Chicago Golf Course Connections to the Masters

March 28, 2021 by Walter Lis

Augusta National Golf Club

When Augusta National Golf Club opened for play in January of 1933, there were over 150 golf courses already in operation in the Chicagoland area. Among those Chicago golf courses was the first 18-hole golf course in the United States, Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton. By 1933, six Chicago golf courses had already hosted the […]

Filed Under: Chicago Golf History, Featured, The Masters Tagged With: Alister MacKenzie, Augusta National Golf Club, Bobby Jones, Chicago Golf Club, Chicago Golf History, Glen View Club, Midlothian Country Club, North Shore Country Club, Olympia Fields Country Club, Onwentsia Club, Skokie, The Masters, Wheaton Golf, Wheaton Golf Course

Chicago: Pro Golf’s Tournament Paradox

December 20, 2020 by Greg Miles

MEDINAH-17TH

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Events, Golf News Tagged With: BMW Championship, Conway Farms Golf Club, Evans Scholars Invitational, Exmoor Country Club, Glen Club, Kemper Lakes Golf Club, KPMG Women's PGA Championship, Medinah Country Club, Olympia Fields Country Club, The Merit Club, Western Open

Ravisloe Country Club – a Chicago Golf Classic

July 3, 2020 by Walter Lis

Ravisloe Country Club

The legendary Donald Ross contributed to Chicago Golf in a big way with Ravisloe Country Club.

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Courses Tagged With: Donald Ross, Olympia Fields Country Club, Ravisloe Country Club

Tournament Week at the Constellation Senior Players Championship

July 11, 2018 by Greg Miles

CONSTELLATION-SENIOR-PLAYERS

As I was growing up I discovered that the word ‘major’ was most often followed by a word denoting trouble: major problems, major calamity, major disaster. But for professional golfers on the PGA Champions Tour, quite the opposite can be true: major opportunity, major accomplishment, major victory. And so it is, this week at the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Events Tagged With: Champions Tour, Constellation Senior Players Championship, Exmoor Country Club, Olympia Fields Country Club

KPMG Women’s PGA Championship

June 28, 2018 by Walter Lis

Kemper Lakes Golf Club

The top 100 LPGA members on the LPGA Official Money List will be competing in the north suburbs of Chicago in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Included in the 156-player field June 29-July 2 at Olympia Fields Country Club will be 26 Major Champions. This event was played in 2017 at Olympia Fields Country Club […]

Tagged With: LPGA, Olympia Fields Country Club

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