THE SCHAUMBURG GOLF CLUB has you covered this week, while the snow keeps coming. So play the Schaumburg Golf Club indoors then shop the quickly filling pro shop, and enjoy great burgers from Chandlers Chophouse. Book your simulator on line at Schaumburggolf.com or call (847)-885-9000. #lessons #Clubfittings are available.
THE GOG BLOG by RORY SPEARS, Director of Content and Creation for Golfers on Golf. Follow Rory on X @GogBlogGuy or connect on LinkedIn/Instagram/Facebook
RORY SPEARS, hitting a few at the club fitting tent in the Heritage Oaks pro shop in Northbrook, (847)-291-2351
IT’S NOT OVER…
The Players Championship is tied and going to a playoff.
Rory McIlroy and J.J. Spaun are both at 12 under par, and will play a three hole playoff to determine the winner. The holes that will be used are 16-17-18.
(Update-Rory McIlroy has won).
So for McIlroy it could be his second win at the tournament, that is NOT the fifth major. During a week where he DID NOT steal Luke Potter’s phone from the University of Texas Golf team, who yelled at McIlroy from the gallery during the pro-am. Potter’s coach had him write several letters of apology, and the discipline might not be over.
FOR ALL OF YOU DAYS UNTIL THE MASTERS COUNTERS-it is NOW okay to start posting your days until the Masters count. Because there was no reason to be doing this back in January, but now you have the green light.
The Shack Golf Club in Glenview, hit them where it’s warm without snow this week at The Shack. (847)-904-2905 or TheShackGolfclub.com #sevensimulators
THE FIFTH MAJOR and no there isn’t one, so stop talking all this crap about trying to turn the Players into a major. But as for the season’s first major, The Masters is now less than a month away. What the Master does is signal the real start of spring and golf season here in the Windy City area. What the Masters has become, is the second chance pool, for everyone who bombed out in March Madness.
BUT WHEN YOU COMPARE the majors, is the Masters all that great? There will be all these folks on X or Facebook running polls before long asking people, what’s the best major, or how do you rank them. Many folks will say the tradition unlike any other, The Masters. While the Masters does have some neat concepts to it. The truth of the matter is that, it’s the smallest field of any major. The weakest field of any major, that only a hand full of players have a realistic chance of winning. Plus some of those players are on the LIV Tour, that should give ulcers to the few remaining people who still hate LIV Golf. Closer to green jacket week, I will break down the four majors and which one is the best.
SPEAKING OF WHICH-Phil Mickelson has now shot several strait rounds in the 60’s. So is “Lefty” peaking at the right time. My answer to the guy running the poll question on LinkedIn, who will finish higher at the Masters, Tiger or Phil. I’ll take Phil thank you very much.
PHIL SAYS…that LIV Golfer Joaquin Niemann is the best player in the world-right now. So he might just be. This week he won his second straight tournament, and sixth tourney worldwide in 15 months. Lookout Scottie, who wasn’t sharp this week. So is he saving himself for the Masters, time will tell.
SPEAKING OF TIGER-he got hurt working out. So if you can’t make it through a work out without tearing your Achilles, maybe your body is telling you something. Woods is now 49 and 9+ months away from the Champions Tour, if he plays. Some suggest he is done on tour, others think he will be back in June for the U.S. Open at Oakmont. I’m not betting on the later. 50-50 on the TCL next year.
SNOW or NO SNOW-start posting your golf scores and get that handicap down. Because as of today, the CDGA says you can post those Chicago area rounds from outdoor play.
THE HOT EQUIPMENT COMPANIES right now are Callaway Golf. Callaway just signed a deal with Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII team in the LIV Golf league. They are the first major equipment company to sign a deal with a team or player in LIV Golf. LAB Golf putters, that seem to be hot on every tour worldwide. LAB putters were in the hands of a few of the top finishers at the Players championship.
THE GOG BLOG returns this week. RS