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It wouldn’t be a week at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, with talking with owner Jerry Rich.

You see while others have backed away from hosting tournaments, Rich has embraced them. What Rich has done with his Rich Harvest Farms Golf Club, is open the doors off this private facility and invited in tournaments that aren’t known as money makers.

Junior events, amateur events and some professional events can end up not being big cash windfalls for clubs looking for a check, and hoping to renovate golf courses, swimming pools, practice facilities and or clubhouses.

In 2015 Rich brought in the Palmer Cup that was won by the USA over Europe, this week he is hosting the Western Amateur, and event he helped bring back to Illinois. Next year the LPGA returns for the first time since the 2009 Solheim Cup was held at RHF, when the second LPGA International Crown arrives in late July. This week Rich is making the sure the Western Golf Association gets it’s proper due, but come Saturday night after the last putt falls or is conceded, it’s all full speed ahead in the planning department for the UL International Crown, that will still be 10 months away. 10 full-time staffers have already been hard at work on the Crown, getting golf fans, especially the ladies fired up about a big-time LPGA and world golf championship being back in town.

Jerry Rich (L) and LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan at the First International Crown in Baltimore in 2014.

But it’s more than just getting women involved, with the UL Crown being all about country vs country, Rich and his staff have been active in Chicago getting entire communities involved and excited about coming out to see their fellow county-women play golf. As the International Crown is just that, a very international golf championship. One that Rich helped create.

During Round 2 of the Western Amateur this week, as scores were going low at Rich Havrest Farms with courses records dropping almost every hour, Rich met with a small group of media to remind them of a few facts.

Some of them included that Rich Harvest Farms was only playing at 7,287 yards instead of it’s full length of near 7,800 yards. Rich was quick to add that the best pin placements were being saved for the match play part of the championship, and that easier pin placements help move around a field of 156 golfers a lot quicker. He reminded the media that in spite of some new low scores at RHF, he was still the club champion, 22 years and running.

But on the serious side, Rich says that Aaron Wise’s 64 wise some pretty good golf, and he was delighted at the caliber of play this week on his property. He laughed at suggestions that he would be out on the property overnight with a backhoe putting in some new bunkers and mounds.

Click here to hear the interview with Rich Harvest Farms Owner Jerry Rich.

It is likely that the LPGA might make a few minor Tweeks to Rich Harvest Farms before the lady professionals arrive in July of 2016, but nothing serious. But if the ladies start making to many birdies or eagles, Rich will make sure that option of playing his club at 7,800 yards comes into play. Being both club champion and owner does have it’s privileges.

Come see the UL International Crown July of 2016 at Rich Harvest Farms, the Chicago area’s biggest professional golf event of next year.