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Dr. Jim Suttie a new member of the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame works from his Naples based studio.

THE VOTE IS IN and the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame Class of 2021, will have six new inductee’s on October 1st.

The new class members are the following:

BESSIE ANTHONY- Perhaps the first great female player from Illinois. Anthony won the first three Women’s Western Amateur Championships 1901-1903. But her run didn’t stop there, she won the 1903 U.S. Women’s Amateur at the Chicago Golf Club.

PHIL KOSIN- Publisher of Chicagoland Golf from 1989 until his passing in 2009. In the late 1990’s he started Chicagoland Golf Radio on WMVP Am 1000 and later moved to WSCR. Kosin founded the Illinois Women’s Open in 1995, and eventually moved the tournament to it’s current home at the Mistwood Golf Club.

MASON PHELPS-An Olympic champion who won the Western Amateur twice in 1908 & 1910. But in 1910 he defeated Chick Evans to win the trophy. Phelps made it to the U.S. Amateur semi-finals in 1909, where he lost to fellow Chicagoan Robert Gardner.

GARY PINNS-Pinns is the only five-time winner of the Illinois Open, winning his first title while he was still an amateur. Pinns went on to become the Director of Instruction at the Oak Brook Golf Club.

DR. JIM SUTTIE-Is one of golf ‘s top teaching instructors. Numerous top professional golfers have taken lessons from “Doc”. Suttie is a three-time Illinois PGA teacher of the Year, and a Top 50 instructor in multiple national publications.

HERBERT JAMES TWEEDIE-The golf architect who designed 21 courses in the Chicago area. Two of his courses today that are still most intact are Midlothian and Flossmoor. But both courses are currently seeing restoration work by Ray Hearn. Tweedie helped take the famed Glen View Club home this years Western Amateur, from 9 to 18 holes.

Congratulations to all six new inductee’s of the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame.