The LPGA UL International Crown coming July 19-24 at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, 32 Players 8 Countries and 1 Crown. Chicago’s Premier golf event for 2016, be a part of it, sign up now to volunteer, get your corporate hospitality, and some ticket options now for sale. Visit ULCrown.com for more details. Links & Tee’s, one of Chicago’s few year-round golf facilities. Right now play and practice outside all day for just $25, coming next month take your game indoors to the Golf Dome for the winter season. See addisonparks.org or call (630)-233-7275. The Mt. Prospect Golf Club has reopened from renovation to rave reviews, play this 1926 classic style golf course, make your tee time today at (847)-259-4200. Mt.Prospect where what’s old is new.
What is the UL International Crown, click here to hear UL SVP Terry Brady, speak about his companies involvement in the Crown Championship. ______________________________________________________________________
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****BREAKING NEWS****
BIG 3 PARTNER Len Ziehm is reporting a new tournament will come to the Chicago area in June of 2016.
The WEB.com Tour is moving here from Cleveland. The sponsor is the Rust-Oleum company.
The new site for the tournament is the Ivanhoe Country Club in Lake County.
The Gog Blog will have more details shortly, so stay with us,and stay clicked in to this site. Congratulations to everyone at the club for being selected as the new host site for the tournament.
Marlene Streit (middle) with the 2015 Woman of Distinction Award.
The 2015 Woman of Distinction Award presented by the Woman’s Western Golf Association, was awarded to Canadian Golfer Marlene Streit.
The award was present at the associations annual meeting and luncheon, that was held at the Glen View Club.
Streit started as a caddie in 1947, but was a golfer by 1949 and went on to an outstanding amateur career, as she said at the ceremony, “I had no desire to turn professional.” Had she done so, she still could have gone onto a great career is the feeling of many who saw her play.
Streit is the only woman to in history to have won the following tournaments. The British Ladies Amateur, the USGA Women’s Amateur, the Australian Women’s Amateur and the USGA Senior Women’s Amateur three times.
The list of championships she won also includes, the famed North/South Amateur at Pinehurst Twice, Low Amateur at the U.S. Women’s Open, a 4-Time Helen Lee Doherty Champion, and a 7 Time Doherty Senior Champion. Women’s International Four-ball Championship twice, and she is a 5-Time winner of the U.S National Mixed Foursome Championship. In her career she won 30 national or international amateur championships, and she won in three countries outside of her home country of Canada.
Streit is a member of Five different Hall of Fames, including the World Golf Hall of Fame, where she was the first Canadian inducted. She holds 16 Honorary Life memberships at various Canadian golf clubs.
For more information on Streit, plus the tournaments and scholarships held or offered by the WWGA, please visit wwga.org.