McQ’s Dome your place for all the indome and indoor fun this weekend. In the Sports Bar watch the Blackhawks try to get the win streak going again against Dale Tallon’s Panthers, play the ponies in the OTB, and work your golf game into shape in the golf dome. Did you already get new club’s after the holidays, well go break them in. Check Out McQsdome.com for all the details, located on Rt. 53 in Bolingbrook. Call the dome at (630)-739-7600 or the Bar and Grill at (630)-739-1592, McQ’s bring the foursome.       ______________________________________________________________________

The Gog Blog Chicago’s # 1 Online golf news source by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. Standing on Top of Pete Dye’s Volcano Bunkers on the Dye Course at French Lick Resort.

July 11-17 at Panther Creek in Springfield Illinois

Apparently one Web.com stop in Illinois wasn’t enough for 2016, and then there was two, within a six week period in the summer ahead.

Panther Creek Country Club in Springfield will be the host of the Land of Lincoln Charity Championship, it will be played from July 11-17. This is the first year of a five-year deal, and the purse is $550,000.

Panther Creek was designed by former U.S. Open Champion Hale Irwin, and was the previous home of the LPGA’s State Farm Classic from 2007 through 2011.

There is no answer yet to if the dates will stay the same in 2017, when the John Deere Classic likely returns to the same week. (In 2016 the John Deere Classic will be played during the Olympic games in August).

The HalfwayHouse in Elmhurst is your place for simulator golf, stop and play over 90 courses from around the world, enjoy great food and beverage while you play as a single, with friends or in a league. Today is the Friday Gamble, on Pebble Beach #7. Halfway House Indoor Golf is located at 555 S. York Rd. in Elmhurst. Call 331-642-8050 or Halfwayhousegolf.com for more information, book your tee time for today.

“Our membership is ecstatic to host the inaugural Land of Lincoln Charity Championship,” said Panther Creek Country Club Board President Leo Zappa. “We are confident that the Web.com Tour will find our course to be a phenomenal venue for the players, and one that will escalate this event into the upper echelon of the tour’s annual stops.”

The Birmingham-base Bruno Event Team will manage the championship.

The launch for sales and sponsorship is already underway, there are plenty of opportunities for everyone to get involved in these area’s.

The Web.com gives it’s players a chance to earn one of the 50 PGA Tour Cards that are up for grabs. 25 cards are earned by the top money winners for the season, with the other 25 earned in the season ending four-event Web.com Tour finals.

                  The Tinley Park Golf Expo Feb. 12-14 see Tinleyparkgolfexpo.com for more details, and on Feb. 6th, the annual open house at the Links & Tee’s Golf Dome in Addison, hosted by Steve Kashul of the Golf Scene TV program. Addisonparks.org for more details.

For more information on the championship please visit the championships website at lincolnlandcharitychampionship.com or go to Web.com or PGATOUR.com.