Lance Olson Wins 2020 CIPGA Professional of the Year GLENVIEW, Ill. – February 23, 2021 – The Illinois PGA Section has announced its slate of 2020 Special Award winners for the Central...
Funding to Provide Financial Base for Existing and Future Programming GLENVIEW, Ill. – February 18, 2021 – In recognition of its 30th anniversary, the Illinois PGA Foundation...
Mark Labiak Wins 2020 Illinois PGA Professional of the Year GLENVIEW, Ill. – February 16, 2021 – The Illinois PGA Section has announced its slate of Special Award winners for...
CLICK HERE FOR FULL JUNIOR TOUR SCHEDULE GLENVIEW, Ill. – February 1, 2021 – The Illinois PGA has announced the launch of an all-new Illinois PGA Junior Tour. The Illinois PGA Junior Tour...
CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE GLENVIEW, Ill. – February 1, 2021 – The Illinois PGA has announced its tournament schedule for the 2021 season. This season will feature over...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – December 8, 2020 – The Illinois PGA Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2020 Don Pieper Scholarship and the 2020 Oscar Miles Scholarship. Jack Troy is the 2020 Oscar...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – November 4, 2020 – Kyle English (Crestwicke Country Club) has won the 2020 Don Drasler Illinois PGA Assistant Player of the Year and the Central Illinois PGA Chapter (CIPGA)...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – November 2, 2020 – David Paeglow (Kishwaukee Country Club) has won the 2020 Illinois PGA Errie Ball Senior Player of the Year Award. Paeglow’s 2020 season was highlighted...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – October 30, 2020 – Mike Small (University of Illinois) has won the 2020 Illinois PGA Bernardi Player of the Year Award. This marks Small’s second career Bernardi...
Carly Schiene Earns Alice Meyer Brown Scholarship Grant Klepitsch named Louis M. Brown Scholarship Honoree GLENVIEW, Ill. – October 15, 2020 – The Illinois PGA Foundation has announced...
ROUNDS 1 AND 2 TEE TIMES TOURAMENT INFORMATION AND SCORING The 32nd Senior PGA Professional Championship takes place October 15-18 at the PGA Golf Club GLENVIEW, Ill. – October 14, 2019...
LONG GROVE, Ill. – October 13, 2020 – Kevin Healy (Black Sheep Golf Club) won the Illinois PGA Senior Players Championship at Twin Orchard Country Club on Tuesday, October 13. Healy built on...
2020 ILLINOIS PGA PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP FULL RESULTS LAKE FOREST, Ill. – October 6, 2020 – Curtis Malm (White Eagle Golf Club) won the Illinois PGA Players Championship at Conway Farms Golf...
2020 ILLINOIS SENIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS St. Charles, Ill. – September 29, 2020 – Illinois PGA Professional David Paeglow (Kishwaukee Country Club) won the 2020 Illinois Senior Open...
2020 ILLINOIS PGA SENIOR MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS North Barrington, Ill. – September 23, 2020 – Michael Troy (Zigfield Troy Golf Club) defeated David Paeglow (Kishwaukee Country Club)...
2020 ILLINOIS PGA MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS ELGIN, Ill. – September 18, 2020 – Host PGA Professional Jonathan Duppler won the 2020 Illinois PGA Match Play Championship at Elgin Country...
40 Illinois PGA Professionals Make More Than 1,000 Birdies Playing Up to 90 Holes to Support Children’s Charities GLENVIEW, Ill. – September 16 2020 – The Illinois PGA...
LEADERBOARD MUNDELEIN, Ill. – September 2, 2020 – Roy Biancalana won the 2020 Illinois Super Senior Open at Pine Meadow Golf Club by three strokes on Wednesday, September 2. Biancalana climbed...
LEADERBOARD MEDINAH, Ill. – August 26, 2020 – Mike Small (University of Illinois) won his 13th Illinois PGA Professional Championship at Medinah Country Club – Course #1. This marks...
LEADERBOARD MEDINAH, Ill. – August 25, 2020 – Mike Small (University of Illinois) tied the Medinah Course One record with an 8-under-par 63 in the second round of the Illinois PGA Professional...
LEADERBOARD MEDINAH, Ill. – August 24, 2020 – The first round of the 98th Illinois PGA Professional Championship featured a three-way tie for the lead between Brandon Moore (Medinah Country...
ROUND ONE AND TWO TEE TIMES 2020 ILLINOIS PGA PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FACT SHEET GLENVIEW, Ill. – August 21, 2020 – The 2020 Illinois PGA Professional Championship will take place August...
Patrick Mannelly, Retired Chicago Bears Long Snapper and Host of Golf360 on NBC Sports Chicago, to Serve as Celebrity Ambassador GLENVIEW, Ill. – July 30, 2020 – The Illinois PGA Foundation...
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. – August 11, 2020 – Mike Small (University of Illinois) won the Illinois Senior PGA Professional Championship at the Merit Club on August 11. This marks Small’s...
Bryce Emory Captures His First Illinois Open Victory at White Eagle Golf Club NAPERVILLE, Ill. – August 5, 2020 – Bryce Emory (Aurora, Ill.) won the 71st Illinois Open at White Eagle...
Bryce Emory Will Look to Win His First Illinois Open After Tying the Modern-Day Course Record in Round Two NAPERVILLE, Ill. – August 4, 2020 –Bryce Emory of Aurora, Ill....
NAPERVILLE, Ill. – August 3, 2020 –Brandon Holtz of Bloomington, Illinois sits atop the leaderboard at the 71st Illinois Open following a first round 6-under-par 66. Holtz’s first round...
NAPERVILLE, Ill. – July 13, 2020 – Kyle English (Crestwicke Country Club) won the National Car Rental Illinois Assistant PGA Professional Championship on Monday, July 13 at Cress Creek Country...
The Illinois PGA Will Play a Modified Schedule Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic GLENVIEW, Ill. – June 23, 2020 – During the last two months the Illinois PGA has been working to reschedule...
State Championship to be Contested at White Eagle Golf Club with Field of 156; Tournament Qualifiers Reduced from Eight to Four GLENVIEW, Ill. – May 29, 2020 – The Illinois...
NORTHBROOK, Illinois – May 27, 2020 – Having met the needs for AMITA Health, KemperSports, the Illinois PGA Foundation and FootJoy announced that it will partner with the VFW Department of...
NORTHBROOK, Illinois – April 16, 2020 – KemperSports, the Illinois PGA Foundation and FootJoy have teamed up to form Rain Suits for Responders, a program to collect new or gently used men’s...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – March 5, 2020 – The Illinois PGA Foundation and Section have announced their intent to purchase the former Western Golf Association/Evans Scholars Foundation (WGA/ESF) office...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – March 4, 2020 – The Illinois PGA hosted a Drive, Chip and Putt Media Day at Medinah Country Club on Tuesday, March 3 to capture the journeys of two Illinois junior golfers...
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (Feb. 5, 2020) – The PGA of America has announced that both Deerpath Golf Course General Manager Vince Juarez, of Lake Forest, Illinois; and GOLFTEC - Oak Brook Director...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – The Illinois PGA Section has announced its slate of Special Award winners for 2019. Steve Orrick, Jr. (Country Club of Decatur) has been selected as the 2019 Illinois PGA Professional...
GLENVIEW, Ill. –December 19, 2019 – The Illinois PGA and Dot Productions have agreed to a Silver Level Partnership for 2020. Dot Productions will be a supporting sponsor of the Illinois PGA...
The number of men among the PGA of America’s 29,000 members far outnumbers the women. That’s no secret, and the number of married couples working in the business as PGA members isn’t...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – November 19, 2019 – Chris French (Aldeen Golf Club) has won the 2019 Don Drasler Illinois PGA Assistant Player of the Year. This marks the second career Assistant Player of...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – November 13, 2019 – Four Assistant PGA Professionals will represent the Illinois PGA Section at the 43rd National Car Rental Assistant PGA Professional Championship at the...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – November 11, 2019 – The Illinois PGA has finalized its Open Championship schedule for the 2020 season. Returning in 2020 will be the Illinois Open Championship, the Illinois...
GLENVIEW, Ill. –November 8, 2019 – Steve Orrick (Country Club of Decatur) is the 2019 Central Illinois PGA Chapter (CIPGA) Player of the Year. Orrick played in eight total Illinois PGA events...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – November 6, 2019 – The Illinois PGA Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2019 Don Pieper Scholarship and the 2019 Oscar Miles Endowment Fund. Jack Troy is the 2019...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – November 4, 2019 – Garrett Chaussard (Skokie Country Club) has won the 2019 Bernardi Illinois PGA Player of the Year Award, and Roy Biancalana (St. Andrews Golf & Country...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – October 17, 2019 – The Illinois PGA Foundation has announced that Grace Owens of Hinsdale, Ill. is the 2019 Alice Meyer Brown Scholarship honoree and William Marshall of Elburn,...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – October 10, 2019 – The Illinois PGA Section has announced the promotion of Palmer Moody to Assistant Executive Director/Foundation and Communications. Moody will continue...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – October 3, 2019 – The Illinois PGA Section has announced some recent staff additions as it continues to fulfill its mission of growing the game and serving more than 800 PGA...
ROUNDS 1 AND 2 TEE TIMES GLENVIEW, Ill. – October 2, 2019 – Eight PGA Professionals will represent the Illinois PGA Section at the 2019 Senior PGA Professional Championship this week, Oct....
FULL RESULTS ORLAND PARK, Ill. – October 1, 2019 – Chris French (Aldeen Golf Club) won the 2019 Illinois PGA Players Championship Tuesday at Crystal Tree Golf and Country Club. French held...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – Following last year’s move to Stonebridge Country Club in Aurora due to flooding and unplayable conditions, the Illinois PGA Foundation Birdies for Charity Section fundraiser...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – September 18, 2019 – Following last year’s move to Stonebridge Country Club in Aurora due to flooding and unplayable conditions, the Illinois PGA Foundation Birdies for...
FULL RESULTS ST. CHARLES, Ill. – September 17, 2019 – Mike Henry of Bloomington, Ill. and Rich Dukelow (Medinah CC) finished the final round the same way they started it, tied for first....
LEADERBOARD ST. CHARLES, Ill. – September 16, 2019 – Rich Dukelow (Medinah CC) and Mike Henry of Bloomington, Ill are tied for first place after Round one of the 2019 Illinois Senior Open....
GLENVIEW, Ill. – July 10, 2019 – Ryne Sandberg and the Illinois PGA Foundation have announced plans to host a charity golf Pro-Am on Monday, September 23 at Westmoreland Country Club in Wilmette....
FULL RESULTS HINSDALE, Ill. – August 28, 2019 – Travis Johns (Medinah Country Club) made up seven strokes in the final round to win his first career Illinois PGA Professional Championship...
ROUND 1 RESULTS FINAL ROUND PAIRINGS HINSDALE, Ill. – August 27, 2019 Following the cancellation of Monday’s play, round one of the Illinois PGA Professional was played today at Ruth...
ROUND 1 & 2 PAIRINGS AND TEE TIMES 2019 ILLINOIS PGA PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FACT SHEET GLENVIEW, Ill. – August 22, 2019 – The 2019 Illinois PGA Professional Championship will take...
Glenview, Ill. – August 16, 2019 – PGA Teaching Professional David Hannon has been teaching golf for more than 25 years to golfers young and old of all skill levels but his work during the...
FULL LEADERBOARD Libertyville, Ill. – August 13, 2019 – Mike Small (University of Illinois Golf Course) won the Illinois Senior PGA Professional Championship on Tuesday at the Merit Club...
LEADERBOARD Glenview, Ill. – August 7, 2019 – David Cooke of Bolingbrook, Ill won the 70th Illinois Open Wednesday at the Glen Club. This marks Cooke’s second Illinois Open victory...
LEADERBOARD FINAL ROUND PAIRINGS Glenview, Ill. – August 6, 2019 – 2015 Illinois Open Champion, David Cooke, leads the 70th Illinois Open by three strokes heading into the final round....
LEADERBOARD Glenview, Ill. – August 5, 2019 – Chris Boyle (Balmoral Woods GC) holds a two-stroke lead heading into the second round of the 70th Illinois Open. Boyle carded a seven-under-par...
In 1942 at Saucon Valley Country Club in Bethlehem, Penn., Ed Posh learned the essentials of customer service at an early age. As a 13-year-old caddie, those lessons and a natural sense to help others...
Billy Rosinia remembers it well. The ropes, the signage, the tee announcers and the players in their matching outfits. He was six years old and at Columbus Park Golf Course where his father, Michael,...
RESULTS Elgin, Ill. – July 15, 2019 – Kevin Flack (Mauh-Nah-Tee-See CC), won the National Car Rental Illinois Assistant PGA Professional Championship Monday at Elgin Country Club in a playoff....
Esposito, Langford, Mann, Peabody, Radix and Ziehm Comprise the 2019 Class GLENVIEW, Ill. -- The Illinois Golf Hall of Fame tonight elected six nominees to its Class of 2019 including...
Jamie Nieto is a very special person. He’s both golf professional and burn survivor. They might not seem to go hand-in-hand but Nieto has made it work and helped many others along the way. Not...
2019 Illinois PGA Senior Match Play Full Results Lake Bluff, IL – John Varner (Beverly CC) defeated Jim Sobb (Ivanhoe Club), 1up, in the championship match of the 2019 Illinois PGA Senior Match...
2019 Illinois PGA Match Play Championship Results Kildeer, Ill. – May 9, 2019 – Garrett Chaussard (Skokie CC) won his second straight Illinois PGA Match Championship on Thursday at...
GLENVIEW, Ill. -- The Illinois PGA Section will be well represented at the PGA Professional Championship (PPC) that runs Sunday, April 28 to Wednesday, May 1 at Belfair in Bluffton, S.C. Eleven Section...
The Illinois PGA Section recently recognized its 2018 Special Award winners earlier this month at a private awards ceremony and three Central Illinois PGA Chapter (CIPGA) members representing Central Illinois...
Four local Chicago area youth golfers, representing the Illinois PGA Section, have earned an invitation to Augusta National Golf Club to compete in the sixth annual Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – The Illinois PGA Section has announced its slate of Special Award winners for 2018 which includes a Professional of the Year honoree dedicated to community relations efforts, three...
GLENVIEW, Ill. -- The Illinois PGA announced its 2019 tournament schedule today which includes the 70th Illinois Open Championship that will be contested at The Glen Club in Glenview, Ill. and Ridgemoor...
The Illinois PGA elects its president every two years, and the most recent changing of the guard on Nov. 19 was much different than all the previous ones. When Jim Miller took over the reins from Mark...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – Four Assistant PGA Professionals will represent the Illinois PGA Section at the 2018 National Car Rental Assistant PGA Professional Championship this week Nov. 15-18 at PGA...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – Nine PGA Professionals will represent the Illinois PGA Section at the 2018 Senior PGA Professional Championship this week Oct. 25-28 at the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla....
GLENVIEW, Ill. – Having returned to the Illinois PGA Section this season following a 10-year hiatus from playing competitive golf, Roy Biancalana of St. Andrews Golf & Country Club in West Chicago,...
The Illinois PGA Section announced today that Steve Orrick, Head PGA Professional at Country Club of Decatur, has won the 2018 Central Illinois PGA Chapter (CIPGA) Player of the Year title. It is the 10th...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – September 28, 2018 – While the Illinois PGA Section season continues through the end of October, the tournaments at which Player of the Year points are awarded were completed...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – September 26, 2018 – The Illinois PGA Section has announced that Dana Gattone has joined the staff as Manager of Special Events and will begin on Oct. 1. In her role, Gattone...
GLENVIEW, Ill. - On Labor Day evening as Birdies for Charity event co-chair and Host Pro, Chris Gumbach, watched the skies open and the rain-soaked River Forest Country Club go from playable to unplayable...
DECATUR, Ill. – Steve Orrick, Jr., Head PGA Professional at Country Club of Decatur, has participated in every Illinois PGA Section Birdies for Charity event since its inception eight years ago....
The wait was worth it for Dakun Chang. It took four days and three extra holes, but Chang prevailed in the 2018 Illinois PGA Championship, beating Brian Carroll to capture the title in a three-hole...
The phrase “overnight leader” is commonly used in golf to denote the player leading at the end of a round. This...
By his reckoning, Roy Biancalana has played eight rounds of competitive golf in the last eight years. Evidently,...
Tim Streng did Monday at Stonewall Orchard Golf Club what he teaches youth golfers to do the other six days of the week. Hit it close and make the putts. Streng,...
Agreed, getting players to play from the correct tee boxes is a win-win for everyone. The player is far more likely to have fun playing from more manageable yardages. Pace of play also is substantially...
The Illinois PGA Foundation’s Birdies for Charity event is one of those things that was good from the start and keeps getting better. That’ll be underscored again on Sept. 4 when the event...
The Nadler family name and Illinois PGA Section go hand-in-hand when talking about long-standing marketing sponsorships as the two have been together for decades. And that partnership will continue as...
Glenview, Ill. (August 16, 2018) – Pine Meadow Golf Club, Mundelein, Ill., will host the PGA Jr. League Illinois Section Championship Saturday, August 18, with four All-Star teams of junior golfers...
Jim Sobb’s playing record speaks for itself. The 30-year director of golf at Ivanhoe Club won eight of the Illinois PGA’s four major tournaments, including the Illinois PGA Championship...
Vince India was airborne about two hours after his final putt dropped at The Glen Club to win the 69th Illinois Open. Yes, he still needed a plane. India, who calls Deerfield home, added...
For a while on Tuesday, the proper gear to play The Glen Club and Ravinia Green Country Club, simultaneous sites of the 69th Illinois Open, would have included not only 14 clubs and an umbrella, but a...
After the morning downpour, it was a day for throwing darts to the greens of Ravinia Green Country Club in Riverwoods, and Andy Mickelson and Dakun Chang threw them best of all. Playing...
There are plenty of good players among the assistant professionals in the Illinois IPGA. That’s why Chris French’s domination of the 2017 Don Drasler Assistant Player of the Year race is so...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – July 18, 2018 – Patrick Flavin, 22, will return to defend his 2017 Illinois Open Championship title August 6-8 at Ravinia Green Country Club and The Glen Club. Last year, Flavin...
Don Habjan was introduced to the business of golf before the game of golf. As a teenager growing up in Waukegan during the early 1960s, he knew caddying was a great way to make money and he wanted...
Most everyone remembers a pivotal point in time when they made an important decision that set their lives on a certain course. For Ron Skubisz it was a fateful winter business trip as an auditor for the...
This is a special time for women in golf in Chicago. As executive director of the Illinois PGA, Carrie Williams is one of only four women (out of 41) to head a section in the PGA of America. Carol Rhoades,...
Top 20 Finishers to Earn Automatic Berth in 100th PGA Championship at Bellerive CC in St. Louis GLENVIEW, Ill. – June 15, 2018 – The Illinois PGA Section will be well represented at...
A golf professional’s job is never an easy one. Some professionals inevitably wind up working harder than others. And then there’s Tony Semonick. Semonick, 28, has worked on PGA professional...
GLENVIEW, Ill. -- PGA of America Distinguished Service Award winner and honorary PGA Lifetime Member, Dennis Walters, will bring his “Golf Lessons, Life Lessons” trick shot golf show and inspirational...
Wes Warren has a term for his assistant golf professionals. “I call them ‘Smokey The Bear’,” said the head PGA professional at Indian Hill Club. “Smokey’s job is...
The Illinois PGA has been awarding its Bernardi Trophy to the section’s Player of the Year for 46 years, and Jim Billiter has been a factor in two of the more interesting races. Understandably,...
Everything was going according to plan for Cary, Ill. native and Methodist University PGA Golf Management Program (PGM) student, Claire Castetter, as she worked her way through school and internship requirements....
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Thirteen-year-old Andrew Lim is on his way to compete on Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club live on the Golf Channel. Sounds impressive, right? It is. Lim is one of 80 youth golfers from 30 U.S. states...
Glenview, Ill. – The Illinois PGA Section, leader in supporting the growth of the game across the state, today announced an alliance with Junior.Golf, the leading industry platform for player...
The more I think about this, the more I realize there are far too many answers to such a seemingly simple question. It means that I’m part of a select few in an organization with more than 28,000...
Parents Can Register Their Junior Golfers and Get More Information at DriveChipandPutt.com AUGUSTA, Ga. – The USGA, Masters Tournament and the PGA of America announced that qualifying registration...
RevelationGolf has done lots of good things since Elk Grove resident Donna Strum created the program in 2005. Strum, a therapeutic recreation specialist, left a job at a hospital to work with children...
With countless exhibitors and nearly 1 million square feet of exhibition space at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, there is one essential attendees need to bring to the 2018 PGA Merchandise...
Ollen Stephens has been in the golf business a long time. Long enough to remember how it used to be when Chicago’s lovely weather (sarcasm alert) turned abruptly for the worse. “On Labor...
The Illinois PGA has few members to rival Katie Pius. In fact, there really aren’t any with the background that this assistant professional at Biltmore Country Club in North Barrington has. Gender-wise...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – December 5, 2017 – As part of the giving season, Illinois PGA Professionals and the Illinois PGA Foundation officially announced a three-year pledge (2017-2019) to contribute...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – December 1, 2017 – The Illinois PGA Section has announced its Central Illinois PGA Chapter Special Award winners for 2017. The roster includes eight PGA Professionals who have...
Why, you may ask, is there a beer tap sitting right next to the entrance of the pro shop at Exmoor Country Club in Highland Park? Is head professional Dave Schmaltz trying to double as a bartender? Not...
ILLINOIS PGA SECTION BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTS TERRY RUSSELL AS DISTRICT 6 DIRECTOR TO SERVE ON PGA OF AMERICA BOARD Nick Cuca Elected to Serve on Illinois PGA Board GLENVIEW, Ill. – The...
Ed Stevenson’s name doesn’t appear on the leaderboard in any Illinois PGA tournaments. Only very rarely has he even played in them. Still, Stevenson is considered by all as the...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – The Illinois PGA Section has announced its slate of Special Award winners for 2017 which includes the first female Professional of the Year winner, two winners from the same facility...
Sunday afternoons often have a different look at Village Links. It doesn’t have the sedate feel of golfers sprinkled throughout the course playing leisurely rounds before embarking on another work...
The 7th annual Birdies for Charity fundraising event did not disappoint as 35 Illinois PGA Professionals descended on River Forest Country Club in Elmhurst with one goal in mind: make as many birdies as...
Adam Schumacher had a goal driving into Medinah Country Club on Wednesday morning. Make the top 10 in the Illinois PGA Championship and advance to next year’s National Professional Championship,...
Jim Billiter says nobody has an advantage regarding local knowledge when it comes to playing Medinah Country Club’s No. 1 Course. He ought to think that over. Billiter’s second straight...
Theirs is a success story unlike most others in the world of golf. For starters, the Aurora-based Nadler clan has the longevity factor going. Nadler Golf Cars has been in business over 50 years...
The first round of the 95th Illinois PGA Section Championship is in the books, and it was a very eventful day on and off the golf course. At about 1:20 p.m., today’s round featured the first total...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – The Drive, Chip and Putt Championship qualifying has officially ended in the state of Illinois, and from thousands of junior golfers who competed in ten Local Qualifiers and two...
Glenview, Ill. -- Patrick Flavin didn’t win a penny at The Glen Club on Wednesday. He won a place in history. Flavin added the Illinois Open title to last month’s Illinois Amateur triumph...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – Here, according to Highwood’s Patrick Flavin, is the secret to playing consistently good golf: “The biggest key is one shot at a time, like today.” Today being...
DEERFIELD, Ill. – It must be catching, this pattern of successful players changing caddies. First it was Phil Mickelson. Then Rory McIlroy. Now Patrick Flavin. In July, with brother Connor...
Hardy, Kelly, O’Reilly, Groh, Farnam, Flavin Round Out Field of Players to Watch GLENVIEW, Ill. – July 26, 2017 – Carlos Sainz, Jr., 31, will return to defend his...
Patrick Lynch is well aware golf has some issues attracting young players in their 20s and 30s. The head professional and his associates at Cantigny Golf in Wheaton came up with a marketing approach to...
Emil Esposito vividly recalls the 1966 Illinois Open, but then how could he forget it? The popular long-time Chicago club professional won the title on the same course that will co-host the tournament...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – June 16, 2017 – The Illinois PGA Section will be well represented at the PGA Professional Championship (Sunday, June 18 to Wednesday, June 21) at Sunriver Resort in Sunriver,...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – April 10, 2017 – This year’s Illinois Open Championship will achieve two noted milestones: marking the 10th time The Glen Club will host the championship round, the most...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – December 2, 2016 – Mark Labiak of Plainfield, Ill., was recently elected the 27th President of the Illinois Professional Golfers’ Association of America by members at...
The Illinois PGA Championship, the annual battle for the Illinois Section crown, is older than it appears. Look at the Willie Marshall Trophy, the original bauble that sits proudly in the Section’s...
The 6th Annual Birdies for Charity fundraiser took place on Tuesday, September 6, 2016, at River Forest C.C. in Elmhurst, Ill. Thirty-four Illinois PGA Professionals participated in this sixth installment...
Some days, one good shot can trigger a series of them. Steve Orrick hit one of those shots on Monday morning, and it led to a handful of similarly good shots that brought him within a stroke of leader...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – The 94th installment of the Illinois PGA Championship & PGA Professional Championship (PPC) qualifying is scheduled to take place Aug. 29-31 at Olympia Fields Country Club in...
Fourth in a series of articles covering prominent people and pertinent subjects associated with the centennial of the Illinois Section. Tommy Armour was one of a kind. Courtesy of the horrors of...
When they say golf is a lifetime sport, they are, of course, referring to Phil Benson. Giving him his first lesson at the age of three, Benson's father wasted no time getting a golf club into his son's...
Third in a series of articles covering prominent people and pertinent subjects associated with the centennial of the Illinois Section. The world of golf a century ago was one steeped in formality. Men...
The man behind the name on the trophy. William Marshall came to America with a great pedigree, and proceeded to exceed it. Born in St. Andrews, Scotland in 1878 and rooted in golf from his earliest...
ST. CHARLES — Brian Carroll arrived at Royal Hawk Country Club at 6:30 a.m. Monday, fully six hours ahead of his tee time. When you're opening the golf shop and the 67th Illinois Open is being...
âRobert White isn’t exactly a household name in golf these days. In his time, he was an invaluable leader. Without White’s experience, much of it gained in a long stint in the Chicago...
Hundreds of thousands of racing fans flocked to Speedway, Indiana last weekend for the 100th running of the Indy 500. Yet John Dal Corobbo, lead golf instructor and PGA Assistant Professional at Speedway’s...
ST. CHARLES - Carlos Sainz Jr. went so low on Tuesday at Royal Fox Country Club, he didn't know how low. "I think it's 10 (under)," he said after scoring 6-under-par 65 in the second round of the 67th...
If you pick one hole of the 18 on Olympia Fields Country Club’s stout South Course and call it a difference maker, the par-5 10th may be the one. At 500 yards, the dogleg left is reachable in...
Mike Small thought Wednesday’s final round of the 95th Illinois PGA Championship turned on the 14th and 15th holes on Olympia Fields Country Club’s testing South Course, where a brace of birdies...
The Harris family rode into the golf car business on two wheels. They've grown within it by concentrating on the foundation of any smart business: customer service. "We work hard at it,"...
Eighty junior golfers representing 30 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces have earned an invitation to Augusta National Golf Club to compete in the third annual Drive, Chip and Putt Championship National...
Royal Fox C.C. and Royal Hawk C.C. to host the first two rounds with a 258 player field GLENVIEW, Ill. – February 22, 2016 – Until 2013, Royal Fox Country Club held the distinguished honor...
GLENVIEW, Ill. - October 12, 2015 – Bill Abrams, PGA head golf professional at Balmoral Woods C.C. in Crete, Ill., has been named the 61st recipient of the Illinois PGA Golf Professional of the Year...
GLENVIEW, Ill. - October 22, 2015 – In one of the closest player of the year races in Illinois PGA history, Brian Brodell edged out Jim Billiter to capture the 2015 Illinois PGA Player of the Year...
MEDINAH, Ill. –It may be time for Jim Billiter to revise his goal for the Illinois PGA Championship. “My goal is top nine,” Billiter said, referring to the placing needed to qualify...
âMEDINAH, Ill. – Three holes into the round, and Jim Billiter’s three-stroke overnight lead in the 93rd Illinois PGA Championship was gone. “Thank God I birdied No. 3 or it would...
MEDINAH, Ill. – Golf course architect Tom Doak will love to hear what the players said about his re-imagination of Medinah Country Club’s Course One on Monday. “It’s a thinking...
Mike Small seeks record 12th Illinois PGA Championship GLENVIEW, Ill. – The 93rd installment of the Illinois PGA Championship & PGA Professional National Championship (PNC) qualifying is scheduled...
LONG GROVE, Ill. – The numbers were astounding. An aggregate score of 199, 16 under par for 54 holes. A total of 128 for the final 36 holes. All were records, all set by 22-year-old David Cooke,...
Theirs is a success story unlike most others in the world of golf. Nadler Golf CarsFor starters, the Aurora-based Nadler clan has the longevity factor going. Nadler Golf Cars has been in business over...
LONG GROVE, Ill. – Everything lined up perfectly for David Cooke on Tuesday. The 22-year-old amateur from Lisle was in the second group off the tee at Royal Melbourne Country Club. The wind was negligible,...
LONG GROVE, Ill. – David Lawrence is one of the countless players with enough game to play in the big leagues of golf who has yet to have the opportunity to play for millions. Monday, he may have...
The 54th Annual Radix Cup Matches, conducted by the Chicago District Golf Association (CDGA) and the Illinois PGA, is scheduled to take place Wednesday, June 3rd at Oak Park Country Club in River Grove,...
Not only is Brian Morrison a teacher of the game of golf, he is a student as well. He is constantly learning and evolving as the game changes. Brian has a true passion for the game that he...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – A two-time U.S. Amateur champion, a lifetime professional dedicated to the charitable side of the game, and a seven-time winner of state major championships are the newest inductees...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – The slate of candidates for induction as the 16th class in the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame is down to 10 finalists after the Hall of Fame Selection Committee’s first-stage deliberations...
LENVIEW, Ill. – The Illinois PGA is proud to announce the addition of new staff members Robert Duke as the Director of Rules and Competitions and Catherine Wagner as the Manager of Foundation Programming...
Hawthorn Woods C.C. and Royal Melbourne C.C. to host first two rounds with expanded field GLENVIEW, Ill. – For the first time in the history of the Illinois Open, the state championship of golf...
GLENVIEW, Ill. – The 16th class for the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame, the highest honor for the sport in the state, will come from among 25 distinguished candidates spanning the earliest days of the...
Recently elected with returning Board members Hans Larson, Patrick Lynch and Mike Picciano GLENVIEW, Ill. – The Illinois PGA is pleased to announce that Ian Grant, Hans Larson, Patrick Lynch and...
GLENVIEW, Ill. - January 12, 2015 – Illinois PGA Executive Director Michael Miller today announced the promotion of Kathy Kreft as the Director of Member and Partnership Services. The change will...
The 4th Annual Birdies for Charity fundraiser took place on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at River Forest Country Club in Elmhurst, Ill. Thirty-three Illinois PGA Professionals participated in the annual...
Hardy, Kelly, O’Reilly, Groh, Farnam, Flavin Round Out Field of Players to Watch
GLENVIEW, Ill. – July 26, 2017 – Carlos Sainz, Jr., 31, will return to defend his 2016 Illinois
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Emil Esposito vividly recalls the 1966 Illinois Open, but then how could he forget it? The popular long-time Chicago club professional won the title on the same course that will co-host the tournament
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Patrick Lynch is well aware golf has some issues attracting young players in their 20s and 30s. The head professional and his associates at Cantigny Golf in Wheaton came up with a marketing approach to
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GLENVIEW, Ill. – June 16, 2017 – The Illinois PGA Section will be well represented at the PGA Professional Championship (Sunday, June 18 to Wednesday, June 21) at Sunriver Resort in Sunriver,
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GLENVIEW, Ill. – April 10, 2017 – This year’s Illinois Open Championship will achieve two noted milestones: marking the 10th time The Glen Club will host the championship round, the most
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GLENVIEW, Ill. – December 2, 2016 – Mark Labiak of Plainfield, Ill., was recently elected the 27th President of the Illinois Professional Golfers’ Association of America by members at
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GLENVIEW, Ill. – The 94th installment of the Illinois PGA Championship & PGA Professional Championship (PPC) qualifying is scheduled to take place Aug. 29-31 at Olympia Fields Country Club in
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Royal Fox C.C. and Royal Hawk C.C. to host the first two rounds with a 258 player field
GLENVIEW, Ill. – February 22, 2016 – Until 2013, Royal Fox Country Club held the distinguished honor
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GLENVIEW, Ill. - October 12, 2015 – Bill Abrams, PGA head golf professional at Balmoral Woods C.C. in Crete, Ill., has been named the 61st recipient of the Illinois PGA Golf Professional of the Year
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GLENVIEW, Ill. - October 22, 2015 – In one of the closest player of the year races in Illinois PGA history, Brian Brodell edged out Jim Billiter to capture the 2015 Illinois PGA Player of the Year
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MEDINAH, Ill. –It may be time for Jim Billiter to revise his goal for the Illinois PGA Championship.
“My goal is top nine,” Billiter said, referring to the placing needed to qualify
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âMEDINAH, Ill. – Three holes into the round, and Jim Billiter’s three-stroke overnight lead in the 93rd Illinois PGA Championship was gone.
“Thank God I birdied No. 3 or it would
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MEDINAH, Ill. – Golf course architect Tom Doak will love to hear what the players said about his re-imagination of Medinah Country Club’s Course One on Monday.
“It’s a thinking
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Mike Small seeks record 12th Illinois PGA Championship
GLENVIEW, Ill. – The 93rd installment of the Illinois PGA Championship & PGA Professional National Championship (PNC) qualifying is scheduled
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LONG GROVE, Ill. – Everything lined up perfectly for David Cooke on Tuesday. The 22-year-old amateur from Lisle was in the second group off the tee at Royal Melbourne Country Club. The wind was negligible,
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LONG GROVE, Ill. – David Lawrence is one of the countless players with enough game to play in the big leagues of golf who has yet to have the opportunity to play for millions.
Monday, he may have
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The 54th Annual Radix Cup Matches, conducted by the Chicago District Golf Association (CDGA) and the Illinois PGA, is scheduled to take place Wednesday, June 3rd at Oak Park Country Club in River Grove,
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Not only is Brian Morrison a teacher of the game of golf, he is a student as well. He is constantly learning and evolving as the game changes. Brian has a true passion for the game that he has shown throughout
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GLENVIEW, Ill. – A two-time U.S. Amateur champion, a lifetime professional dedicated to the charitable side of the game, and a seven-time winner of state major championships are the newest inductees
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LENVIEW, Ill. – The Illinois PGA is proud to announce the addition of new staff members Robert Duke as the Director of Rules and Competitions and Catherine Wagner as the Manager of Foundation Programming
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GLENVIEW, Ill. – The slate of candidates for induction as the 16th class in the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame is down to 10 finalists after the Hall of Fame Selection Committee’s first-stage deliberations
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Hawthorn Woods C.C. and Royal Melbourne C.C. to host first two rounds with expanded field
GLENVIEW, Ill. – For the first time in the history of the Illinois Open, the state championship of golf
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GLENVIEW, Ill. – The 16th class for the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame, the highest honor for the sport in the state, will come from among 25 distinguished candidates spanning the earliest days of the
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GLENVIEW, Ill. - January 12, 2015 – Illinois PGA Executive Director Michael Miller today announced the promotion of Kathy Kreft as the Director of Member and Partnership Services. The change will
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