HERITAGE OAKS in Northbrook (Formerly Sportsman’s) on Dundee Road is open tomorrow. You can now make tee times Heritageoaks.com. New range, new putting green, new golf course, brand new clubhouse, new indoor simulators-year round golf.     _____________________________________________________________________

THE GOG BLOG by RORY SPEARS, Director of Content and Creation for Golfers on Golf. Follow Rory on Twitter @GogBlogGuy or connect on LinkedIn.

WELL BACK TO A more timely edition of the Gog Blog’s Sunday Morning Short Game News Column.

MORE COMING UP TOMORROW. But Heritage Oaks will be open tomorrow. So I will have a scouting report in Mondays Speaks Out column.

SO IF YOUR 60 and older you could play in the coming CDGA Super Senior Championship at Pine Meadow Golf Club in Mundelein.

This 36-hole no cut event is August 31st and September 1st. But your handicap must be 14.0 or less. So visit CDGA.org and sign up today or by August 24th.

CDGA NEWS Josh Lundmark and Mac McClear defeated Ethan Farnam and Michael Fastert 1 UP, to win the CDGA Fourball Championship at the Flossmoor Golf Club. The match was All-Square on the 18th tee box.

Mistwood golf fitter Matt Carter in the SAM Putt Lab.

ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR CLUB FITTING.

Mistwood Golf Club in Romeoville has the new TaylorMade P790 Irons and the new Milled Grind 3 Wedges.

Pre-order today, see Eric Russell and Matt Carter for your fittings.

Call Mistwood at (815)-254-3333 or book online at Mistwoodgc.com.

University of Illinois Men’s Golf Coach Mike Small with the Senior PGA section trophy.

University of Illinois Men’s golf coach Mike Small, didn’t win it the easy way. But he found a way to win for the fifth straight time, in the IPGA Section Senior PGA Professional Championship Title.

Small had to defeat Beverly Country Club’s John Varner on the final hole of a three-hole playoff for the win. Roy Biancalana (Blackberry Oaks) was also in the playoff.

Small’s score of 12-under par (132) at the Bryn Mawr.

Because of the win, Small heads to PGA Village Port St. Lucie from October 21-24 for the Senior PGA Professional Championship. But joining him will be Varner, Biancalana, Michael Troy, John Cleary Don Morris, Kurt Rogers and Kevin Merion of Old Elm.

” I’m proud of myself today,” said Small. “I had a bad stretch going on the back nine, that included a four-putt. But I got past it and was able to pull it out.”

After hitting a tree with his drive on 18, Small had to get up and down from a greenside bunker to make birdie and join the playoff. At the Senior PGA Professional Championship, the top 35 professionals earn berths in the Senior PGA Championship in 2022. More details at IPGA.com.

THE NEW SCOTTY CAMERON CHAMPIONS CHOICE Putters are now available.

SCOTTY CAMERON with the inspiration he has been using to create and design championship putters for champions on a variety of tours, has now designed his newest line of putters-Champions Choice.

This limited run of putters is a variety of sports shapes, and Teryllium insert with his “Button Back” stamp.

The three models ‘now available’ are the Newport Button Back, Newport 2 Button Back (also available for the lefties) and the Flowback 5.5 Button Back. All three putters are milled with a 3030 stainless steel body. Scotty Cameron Button Backs were in the bag of the 2017-2018 U.S. Open champion. But there are plenty of features in these models that will have golfers ready to jump for joy when they test them. So learn more at Scottycameron.com or at Titleist.com.

THE GOG BLOG SPEAKS OUT returns tomorrow RS.