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THE CHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION (CDGA) is back tomorrow with the return of it’s 6th CDGA Mid-Amateur Championship May 17-19 at the Lake Shore Country Club in Glencoe.
The Mid-Amateur tee’s off the 108th season of tournament golf for the CDGA. But a field of 80 amateurs, 25 years of age or older are ready to return to Lake Shore CC, for the first time in five years. But on Monday morning the field gets it’s only chance at stroke play, before the top 16 advance to match play on Monday afternoon.
Because the Quarterfinals, and then Semifinals take place on Tuesday, with the Championship Match played on Wednesday morning. The field was open to CDGA members age 25 or older, with a handicap index of 7.4 or below. There was more than 340 golfers who signed up for the event. But four qualifiers were held to trim the field to 80 players.
Because the event was cancelled last year because of the pandemic, this is the first championship since 2019 when Jake Erickson defeated Zach Jecklin 3 & 2 at Northmoor CC. But two-time champion John Ehrgott is also in the field. The CDGA will set up Lake Shore CC at 6,775 yards and to a par of 71 for the championship.
TOP GOLF is running it’s 9 Shot-Challenge event, presented by the 2021 PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. But you must play by May 23rd, to have a chance to win tickets to the 2022 PGA championship at Southern Hills in Tulsa Oklahoma. So head out to Topgolf, of a facility with Toptracer range. So learn more at Topgolf.com.
TOPGOLF PART 2 Topgolf has announced that a new Topgolf to serve the Greater Baltimore Area is ready to begin construction. But the venue will not open until 2022. More details at Topgolf.com.
LINKS CAPITAL ADVISORS and Chris Charnas have announced the sale of Baneberry Golf Resort in Baneberry Tennessee. For information on buying or selling of golf properties contact Chris at (312)-543-7192.
V1 SPORTS has added to it’s product team. 30 year industry veteran Chris McGinley returns as Chief Revenue Officer and Michael Boumansour is the new Director of Software Engineering.
McGinley spent 21 years at Titleist and Boumansour spent time with Warner Music and the New York Times. So learn more at V1Sports.com.
The island green at Bolingbrook Golf Club
BOLINGBROOK GOLF CLUB and KEMPERSPORTS are proud to welcome the Forme Tour to the Bolingbrook Golf Club from July 20-23. The championship brings 150 up-and-coming players of this newly created mini-tour to Bolingbrook.
This tournament is one of the 8 tournaments on the tour this summer that runs from June to September. This tour was created to help Canadian Tour players have a place to play, due to 2020 pandemic cancellations.
YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT tickets or volunteering by visiting PGATour.com/Canada or visit the Bolingbrook Golf Club’s website.
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