Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois, will host the Western Golf Association’s 102nd Western Junior on June 17-20. The annual championship features an international field of 156 top junior players, all vying to win the country’s oldest national junior golf championship. First held by the Western Golf Association in 1914, the Western Junior has served as a proving ground for many future PGA TOUR stars, including past champions Rickie Fowler, Hunter Mahan and Jim Furyk. Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Matt Kuchar also have competed in the Western Junior. The event was not played for several years during World…
Author: Glen Turk
Glen Turk
Glen Turk is a Wisconsin native who has been the Senior Writer/Editor of Midwest Golfing Magazine since 2006. Besides being an avid golfer, Glen enjoys traveling, music, and cheering on the finest professional sports team of all-time, the Green Bay Packers. Glen’s ultimate golf goal is to play in all fifty states and currently he is more than half way there. His other dream, albeit far-fetched, it to record an ace in all seven states of our distribution area. Thanks to an ace in Illinois in 2015, and one in Michigan in 2016, he has three down, four to go!
New weather app provides hour-by-hour weather forecasting on a simple clock interface that integrates with your phone’s calendar to ensure your events are always accompanied by clear, blue skies Most weather apps are text heavy and full of tabular data which requires users to sift through multiple pages to get a complete picture of the day’s weather. Atmosphere Weather, launching today for iOS and Android, is a new take on the weather forecast with a unique interface that gives an easy to read at a glance view. Atmosphere Weather was designed with the notion in mind that the forecast cannot…
Fort Worth, Texas – March 18, 2019 – Ben Hogan once said, “there are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.” Today, Ben Hogan Golf Equipment Company, the brand founded by the legendary golfer in 1953, introduced its first putter line in nearly fifteen years with the release of a Precision Milled FORGED putter line. The new CNC precision milled putters are crafted from soft, 1020 carbon steel in a multi-step forging process that strengthens and purifies the molecular structure of the metal. True forging refines and tightens the grain structure of the steel and provides for uniform density across…
One of Chicagoland’s most classic championship golf course’s opens Monday, April 1* ITASCA, Ill. – (Mar 19, 2019)– One of the oldest golf courses in Itasca opens up the 2019 golf season with notable upgrades. The Golf Club at Eaglewood Resort and Spa (Eaglewood Resort) is pleased to announce its official opening day of Mon., Apr. 1*, as well as the addition of its brand-new Yamaha Drive2QuieTech EFI golf carts, Foresight golf simulator and seasonal programming. “Built in 1932, Eaglewood Resort’s golf course has built a reputation as one of the most classic championship golf courses in the Chicagoland area.…
New Paul Albanese design complements the award winning Sweetgrass course at Upper Michigan’s Premier Golf Destination HARRIS, Mich. – Sage Run at Island Resort & Casino, on May 31, will be the third new golf course to open in Michigan in the last three years. The construction, shaping and seeding were completed in the spring of 2018 and it had some partial preview play late last season, but Michigan’s next great modern classic course makes its true debut this season. “When we began previewing some of the golf holes last season, we could see how the course was evolving into…
Please see below for more exciting news from the industry’s leading putter grip manufacturer, SuperStroke. WIXOM, MICHIGAN — SuperStroke, the No. 1 Putter Grip in Golf and a leader in golf grip technology and innovative design, has launched its all-new Traxion Series grips. The performance-driven line includes Traxion Series Putter Grips and the Traxion Tour Swing Grip. The new grips build on the success of SuperStroke’s major championship-proven models, adding new technologies that help golfers hit better shots and make more putts. The new grips feature Traxion Control, an advanced surface texture developed to enhance feel and performance. Traxion Control…
Pushing the Limits of Seamless Design, 10th Anniversary Spider Putter Features Optically Engineered True Path™ Alignment Sightline A decade after introducing the putter that shifted the paradigm of putter creation toward high-MOI design mallets and has since become the most popular putter in company history, TaylorMade Golf Company announced today the 10th generation of its globally transcendent Spider putters with the introduction of Spider X. Continuing the longstanding heritage of Spider performance in a completely re-designed frame, Spider X putters utilize a new dedicated weighting system and optically engineered sightline (OES) featuring TaylorMade’s new True Path alignment system. The X…
CARLSBAD, Calif., Mar. 5, 2019 – Today Callaway Golf Company (NYSE: ELY) announced that Francesco Molinari, the reigning Open Champion, has joined its Tour Professional Staff. He will play Callaway woods, irons, wedges, an Odyssey Putter, and a Chrome Soft Golf Ball, and he will use a Callaway Staff Bag. “I am joining Callaway because I’m so impressed by their equipment,” said Molinari. “More than anything, I’m looking forward to playing the new Epic Flash Driver and the Chrome Soft X Golf Ball. The ball speed gains that I’m getting from the driver are unbelievable. And this golf ball is…
NORTHBROOK, ILLINOIS, March 4, 2019 – The Oneida Golf Enterprise, a wholly owned business of the Oneida Nation, has selected KemperSports to manage Thornberry Creek at Oneida in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Thornberry Creek is the official course of the Green Bay Packers and host of the Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic. Nestled atop one of the highest peaks in Brown County, Thornberry Creek is home to 27-holes of championship golf. The Legends Championship Course is a par 72, 6,934 yard experience with more than 70 sand bunkers and 11 water hazards placed strategically throughout its 18 holes. The Original Iroquois –…
Sacks Parente Golf Company, builders of exceptional putters that defy convention, introduces its innovative new Series 54 mallet putter. The Series 54 features Sacks Parente’s patented Ultra Low Balance Point (ULBP) technology that lowers the balance point along the shaft between the sole and a point not more than 5 inches above the sole, causing the putter head to square and release at impact, delivering exceptional rollout and accuracy. “We thought about this putter for 2 years before we even started doing the CAD work on it,” said Steve Sacks, Co-Founder of Sacks Parente Golf. “We had two major goals…