Missoula, Montana – Since its introduction, the Sun Mountain 2Five golf bag has been the lightest, full-featured bag on the market. Weight-saving components include carbon-fiber legs, high strength-to-weight plastics, and ultra-lightweight fabric. For 2018, the new 2.5+ will have increased durability, increased comfort, and more storage. All of these improvements for the same retail price as before, $219.99, and increasing weight by only three ounces. For the retailer nearest you, call 800-227-9224 or visit www.sunmountain.com. “We added the equivalent weight of two golf balls but raised durability, comfort and pocket space,” said Ed Kowachek, President of Sun Mountain Sports. “We’re satisfied…
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!
The lighter the club, the faster the swing speed. Weighing just 286 grams, the Epic Star driver is Callaway’s lightest driver. That works in conjunction with our ball speed-enhancing Jailbreak Technology to help players of all types break their personal distance barrier. Key components: • Jailbreak technology radically changes how the head behaves at impact to promote faster ball speed • Ultra-light Exo-cage head construction consists of 46% lightweight triaxial carbon and a 9.7-gram crown • Premium, ultra-light 39-gram Grand Bassara™ driver shaft, made in Japan by Mitsubishi® (first sub-40 gram shaft in a Callaway driver) uses a proprietary MR70 carbon…
2017 Fall Issue of Midwest Golfing Magazine Read the full issue online. [su_button url=”https://xdigital.spiweb.com/publication/?i=572350″ target=”blank” background=”#23551c”]Read Online[/su_button] Before I summarize the stories that make up our 2017 Fall Issue, I would like to thank our readers and partners for partaking in the 7th Annual RoyBoy’s Evil Twin Golfing Outing. The event was held on August 27th at Cherokee CC in Madison and honored my brother and MGM co-founder Jeff Royle, who passed away unexpectedly this past January. There are too many companies and courses to thank for their donations, but your kindness did not go unnoticed! Fall has always been…
French Lick, IN – Golfers in the Midwest seeking a premier destination to experience fall colors combined with championship golf should proceed directly to French Lick. Nestled among the Hoosier National Forest, at one of the highest elevation points in the Midwest, is one of America’s premier golf resorts, French Lick Resort. Over the next few months, the resort’s historic and championship level golf is the perfect activity among the hardwoods that turn to scarlet, rust, gold and orange and frame views that extend 40 miles in many directions. It is one of the most spectacular fall color golf opportunities anywhere in…
NORTHBROOK, Ill., Sept. 12, 2017 – KemperSports announced today that eight courses that it manages were featured in GOLF Magazine’s list of the Top 100 Courses in the U.S. The company manages more top-ranked courses than any other management company. “As a company, we are fortunate to work with so many fantastic golf properties,” said KemperSports CEO Steve Skinner. “This honor is a true testament to the vision of our clients as well as the KemperSports staffers that manage each of these great golf courses.” KemperSports-managed properties that were honored include: GOLF Magazine Top 100: No. 17 – Pacific Dunes – Bandon,…
LAKE FOREST, Ill. – The BMW Championship is the penultimate event in the PGA TOUR’s FedExCup Playoffs, with the top 70 PGA TOUR players competing for an $8.75 million purse, including $1.575 million for the winner. Past champions include Dustin Johnson, Jason Day, Rory McIlroy, Zach Johnson, Justin Rose and Tiger Woods. Dustin Johnson, the world’s top-ranked golfer and winner of the 2016 BMW Championship, will defend his title Sept. 12-17 at Conway Farms Golf Club against a field of the world’s best golfers, including 2017 Open champion Jordan Spieth and 2015 BMW Championship winner Jason Day. Also expected to…
The LPGA travels from Portland, Ore., to the capital city of Indiana this week as a world-class fi eld of 144 professionals from 26 different countries descends on Brickyard Crossing Golf Club for the inaugural Indy Women in Tech Championship presented by Guggenheim. This is the Tour’s first stop in Indiana since the ninth Solheim Cup in 2005, where the U.S. captured the fi rst of three consecutive victories, the only time that has been accomplished in Solheim Cup history. Earlier this year, the inaugural Senior LPGA Championship was contested at the Pete Dye Course at the French Lick Resort, one…
Charlevoix, MI – For over 95-years, the Belvedere Golf Club in Charlevoix Michigan has been a historic landmark in northern Michigan, and this summer the club, members, and local officials paid tribute to that history with a re-dedication ceremony. The event recognized the recent restoration work done to architect William Watson’s masterpiece from the original lost plans that were found last summer during the demolishment of an old building in Charlevoix. While aerial photos existed from the late 1930’s, there was no actual documentation of the original parkland design with its classic flowing fairways, strategic bunkers and subtle greens. More…
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — CLEVELAND GOLF® unveils new alignment and speed control technologies in the updated TFi® 2135 Satin putter models. Featuring a new tour satin color scheme, high-contrast alignment lines and a customized milling pattern on each of the five head shapes, the new putters are available for presale Aug. 28, 2017 and officially launch Sept. 15, 2017. Since its founding in 1979, Cleveland Golf’s innovative putter designs have pushed the limits of technology, look, and feel. The new TFi 2135 Satin putters continue this tradition, with putter advancements designed to improve alignment, soft feel, and speed control. Speed…
HARRIS, Mich. – Sage Run at Island Resort & Casino will be the third new golf course to open in Michigan in the last three years when it comes online in early June 2018. The construction, shaping, and seeding have all been completed and now it’s just eagerly waiting and watching it transform into Michigan’s next great modern classic. It might not sound like a lot of openings when compared to the mid-1980s to mid-1990s golf course construction boom, but it is a lot in the current era and indicates the golf economy is rebounding and that Michigan remains one of the leading golf destinations in America, and in the case the Upper Peninsula of Michigan,…