The Main Clubhouse at Cog Hill, ready to host your holiday parties see CogHillgolf.com and the New Titleist DT TruSoft Golf Ball now available at pro shops and golf retail stores near you. Please visit Titleist.com for more information on this new golf ball. ______________________________________________________________________
The Gog Blog Chicago’s #1 Online Golf News Source by Rory Spears, Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. Standing on top of the Volcano Bunkers at the French Lick Resorts Pete Dye Golf Course on a cool day.
DECEMBER NEWS PART 2…
It might be December, but the golf news in the Chicago area is flying all over town.
There is so much going on in this “off season” that it feels more like early summer than early December.
The weather outside is outstanding, at least for the next few days anyway.
As a result many courses have elected to remain open for play, and are still not using temporary greens. Some courses are sending out golf carts. At some courses it’s cart paths only, at others it’s not.
COURSES WHERE YOU CAN TEE IT UP TODAY INCLUDE:
Maple Meadows part of DuPage Golf, Go join over 100 golfers who already have tee times.
Maple Meadows is open. Director of Golf Operations Ed Stevenson says there already over 100 golfers signed up to play. But there are tee time available, the first group out is at 8 AM providing there is no frost delay, and there could be based on Friday night lows.
Deerfield Golf Club in Deerfield is open. The Blackberry Oaks Golf Club in Bristol is open, walking or riding. The Buffalo Grove Golf Course is open. As we reported Friday, the White Deer Run golf course in Libertyville is open, Chapel Hill in McHenry is open along with Courses 1 & 3 at Cog Hill in Lemont. If you are looking for other courses that might be open, I recommend calling the pro shops and checking if courses are open.
Chris Charnas and Links Capital Advisors have brokered yet another golf course deal, with the closing and sale of the Eagle Creek Golf Club in Hortonville Wisconsin.
Len Ziehm at the Conservatory Golf Club in Florida.
BIG 3 Partner Len Ziehm, and his traveling golf machine is on the road again. Ziehm has filed recent reports of his travels from courses and resorts like Wild Dunes in Charleston South Carolina and Santee South Carolina.
From their the Ziehm machine headed west to Louisiana, and then back East to Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
Recent posts from Ziehm include, Lake Charles in Louisiana, Old Waverly and the new Mossy Oak in Mississippi. The Innisbrook Resort just north of Tampa, where the Copperhead Course home of the Valspar Championship on the PGA Tour will reopen this coming week from a major renovation. The Mission Inn in Howey-In-The-Hills Florida was his most recent stop. For more on travel golf destinations visit his website LenZiehmongolf.com.
SANTEE, SOUTH CAROLINA will become a town with easy access when the new exit off of I-95 opens in 2016. New restaurants and a new conference center are among places that are creating exciting reasons to visit the town. The YMCA run Rec. Center and Waterpark,complete with an 80,000 gallon pool that opened last year, is separated into three sections for all ages.
Golf has been the draw in Santee for years, but is growing. Courses like the Santee Cooper Country Club designed by George Cobb opened in 1967 that sits on Lake Merion. The Lake Merion Golf Club that opened in 1978, has tree lined fairways, bordering lakes and 47 sand bunkers.
Santee National Golf Club that opened it’s first tee to golf in 1989, underwent a renovation in 2005, is lined with mossy live oaks but more open than the other golf courses. Five other courses are within 20 minutes of the town, ten courses are within 40 minutes. Santee is considered a “people place” where faces are friendly around the town. For more information on Santee see GolfSantee.com or Santeetourism.com.
CARNOUSTIE SPORTSWEAR has announced the spring of 2016 men’s collection of outerwear called the MacKenzie Collection. This lightweight line of cotton outerwear has already been well received, and brings a new dimension to their outerwear offerings. For more see carnoustiesportswear.com.
COG HILL the annual Christmas/Holiday sale is today in the 2-4 Building at Cog Hill, it will run from 10 Am to 4 Pm with punch and hors d’oeuvres. It will be the largest sale of the season.
THE ESKIMO OPEN AT COG HILL will be played on Jan. 3 2016, sign up ends on December 28th, 2015. The 3-Club Frosty Open is Sunday December 13th on Course 1 at 9:30. Call Cog Hill at (866)-COG-HILL for more information or to sign up.
THE PURDUE UNIVERSITY GOLF COURSE continues to make progress towards a spring of 2016 opening. The course renovation work is being overseen by architect Pete Dye. The Ackerman Hills golf course will remain a par-72, with member tee’s at 6,200 yards and the championship tees at 7,400 yards, with front tees playing much shorter than the member tee’s.
The Donald Ross portrait in the Donald Ross Room at the Pinehurst Resort.
Donald Ross-Discovering the Legend the film is out and now available on DVD for just $20.00.
The film has interviews with several top architects like Ben Crenshaw who along with his partner Bill Coore, did the renovation work on Pinehurst #2 the Ross masterpiece that sits at the heart of the Pinehurst Resort.
Other interviews include Tom Fazio and Golfweek architecture writer Brad Klein who wrote the book, Discovering Donald Ross. For details on the film or ordering the DVD see DonaldRossfilm.com.
A look at the 2016 CDGA schedule comes up tomorrow. Stay Clicked in. RS.