In 2022 – the first season for the LIV Golf League – the dominant player, by far, was Dustin Johnson. Every year since the race for that top honor has gotten tighter and the winner has changed. In 2023 it was Talor Gooch. Last year it was Spain’s Jon Rahm. And now – going […]| Len Ziehm On Golf
Mike Small, the University of Illinois coach who has won 14 Illinois PGA titles, was bidding for a recording tying fifth Illinois Open crown on Friday. He had an uncharacteristically bad day at Kemper Lakes in Kildeer and didn’t get it, but the day wasn’t a complete downer. In July one of Small’s […]| Len Ziehm On Golf
The best golf you’ll see in the Chicago area this year begins on Friday when the LIV/Chicago tournament tees off at Bolingbrook Golf Club. LIV, in its fourth straight year with a Chicago stop, has three events remaining on its 14-tournament season. Last year only 22 of 54 bettered par at Bolingbrook in what then […]| Len Ziehm On Golf
Lake Forest’s Pierce Grieve has a big stretch of golf ahead, and his game is ready for it.| Len Ziehm On Golf
Back in 2019 Scottie Scheffler won the first NV5 Invitational Championship – a Korn Ferry Tour event played at the Glen Club in Glenview. Now he’s the world’s No.1-ranked golfer with five major titles, the most recent coming in last weeks’ British Open.| Len Ziehm On Golf
Jordan Less, hitting a tee shot, and Connor Hamm staged a stirring duel as partners in the final two rounds of the Illinois State Amateur. (Photos Courtesy of the Chicago District Golf Association).The Illinois State Amateur has been played for 94 years, but it’s doubtful it ever had a tournament wrapup quite like Thursday’s at Stonebridge Country Club in Aurora.| Len Ziehm On Golf
Pierce Grieve has won Illinois’ two biggest amateur tournaments. (Photo Courtesy of the CDGA)The biggest tournaments of the Chicago golf season are coming fast and furious now, starting with the 94th Illinois State Amateur, which concludes its three-day run at Stonebridge, in Aurora, on Thursday.| Len Ziehm On Golf
Brian Campbell’s win in the John Deere Classic was pulled off with the University of Illinois logo on his golf bag.Sunday’s conclusion to the John Deere Classic triggered the end of the PGA Tour’s season in Illinois. The JDC is the circuit’s only annual stop in the state, and recently-crowned champion Brian Campbell headed a group of this year’s leading competitors on to a charter flight to Ireland a few hours after the last putt dropped at TPC Deere Run. They’ll play in this ...| Len Ziehm On Golf
Brian Campbell and his girlfriend Kelsi McKee celebrate another playoff win. (Joy Sarver Photos)SILVIS, IL. – Brian Campbell was just finishing up at the University of Illinois when he saw TPC Deere Run for the first time. That was in 2015 when he got in the John Deere Classic field as a sponsor’s exemption and missd the cut. He’s come a long way since then.| Len Ziehm On Golf
There was lots of drama on the 18th green at TPC Deere Run at the end of the third round of the John Deere Classic. Doug Ghim (left) left frustrated after losing the tournament lead while defending champion Davis Thompson rolled in a putt to take sole possession of the lead. (Joy Sarver Photos).SILVIS, IL. – Doug Ghim’s chances of becoming the 25th first-time PGA Tour winner at the John Deere Classic looked good after he held the solo lead after the first and second rounds.| Len Ziehm On Golf
Arlington Heights’ Doug Ghim is the 36-hole leader in the John Deere Classic. (Joy Sarver Photos)SILVIS, IL. – Could this be the week that Arlington Heights’ Doug Ghim notches his first victory on the PGA Tour? It’s certainly possible.| Len Ziehm On Golf
The John Deere Classic, Illinois’ only annual PGA Tour event, will be held for the 54th time starting on Thursday at TPC Deere Run in downstate Silvis. and this staging will be a big different than those of the past.| Len Ziehm On Golf
The Chicago District Golf Association staged two of its biggest tournaments last week, with Barrington’s Bridget Butler winning the 92nd Illinois State Women’s Amateur at The Grove, in Long Grove, and Tennessee golfer Ford Martin capturing the Chicago Adaptive Open in a playoff with Winfield’s Victor Postillion at Fox Bend, in Oswego.| Len Ziehm On Golf
Doug Ghim got some good news this week. The U.S. Golf Association made the PGA Tour player from Arlington Heights one of the 156 official starters in the 125th U.S. Open, which tees off on Thursday at Pennsylvania’s Oakmont course.| Len Ziehm On Golf
Last week’s PGA Championship at North Carolina’s Quail Hollow had its surprises. None of the 20 club professionals survived the 36-hole cut. Neither did established stars Jordan Spieth, Sepp Straka, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Rose, Brooks Koepka and Shane Lowry.| Len Ziehm On Golf
The PGA Championship, second major event of the PGA Tour season, claims the national golf spotlight on Thursday at Quail Hollow, in Charlotte, N.C., but the Illinois Section of the PGA staged its first of four majors last week and it produced a result for the local record books.| Len Ziehm On Golf