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Jim Billiter Assistant Professional of the Merit Club, wins the 93rd Illinois PGA Championship at Medinah. Photo via IPGA and master Photographer Nick Novelli.

Jim Billiter has a great batting average in Illinois PGA major championships in 2015. He is batting 1,000 and it will stay that way for the rest of the year.

Billiter shot a final round 1 under par 70 to win the IPGA Championship at Medinah by 2 shots over Matt Slowinski from Conway Farms.

Starting the third and final round Billiter lead by three shots, but very quickly into the round the lead was gone and Billitier found himself back in a tie with Slowinski.

But Billiter righted the ship and Slowinski’s early charge ran out of steam. One group, the one right in front them included Medinah teaching professional Travis Johns.

Johns felt he had a chance to go really low in round 2, but bogeys on 17 and 18 derailed that. During the final round Johns came out hitting fairways and smoking it into the green, but front nine saw Johns unable to make any putts. That changed at the turn, and no sooner had Slowinski fallen back, Johns got the putter working and suddenly he was now 4 under in the round by the 13th hole and was only 1 shot back.

Click here to hear interviews with the Champion Jim Billiter, and with runner up Matt Slowinski.

Matt Slowinski rips a drive during the final round of the Illinois PGA Championship at Medinah. Photo IPGA, and Master Photographer Nick Novelli.

No sooner did Johns pull within 1 of Billiter, Billiter made two birdies and was quickly back up three shots.

Johns finished bogey-birdie-bogey to end up 3 shots back.

Slowinski started a back nine charge that got him back within two shots of Billiter, but seven under par was all Slowinski could muster, before his birdie on 18 slid past the hole.

Billiter struggled with his drive on the start of the back nine, hitting poor drives on 10-11 and 12. He did hit some great recovery shots to earn himself some well needed pars and stay in the lead. After birdies on 13-14, he made all pars in from there and earned the first place check of $10,000 from a purse of over $62,000.

Billiter was asked after his round about going for his third major in the Players Championship at Galena, but he won’t be able to play because of being on a trip to Ireland with members of the Merit Club, but he looks forward to that event in 2016. A major event at the Merit Club kept him from competing in the Illinois Open in July.

By winning the IPGA Match Play and the IPGA Championship in the same year, he joins a list of eight other player who have accomplished the feat, seven of those eight are in the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame.

Another player to accomplish that feat was Two-time defending champion Mike Small, who shot a final round 1 under par 70, to finish in a T-7th place.

Katie Pius from Biltmore Country Club, who made the cut for the 5th time in 6 attempts while playing almost 5 months into a pregnancy, fell back with a 78 and dropped from 13th place to a T-28. With a top 8 finish, she could have been the fourth woman to play the Professional Players Championship (PPC) next year.

The players who are going to the national club professional championship are, Mike Small (exempt as past champion), Billiter, Slowinski, Johns, Orrick, Simon Allan, BJ Paul, Dakun Chang, and Frank Hohenadel. Winning a playoff to be the first alternate was Garrett Chaussard.