(L) CARNOUSTIE SPORTS WEAR has released it’s fall line of shirts for the upcoming season, see Carnoustiesportswearonline.com for more information. The Ryder Cup makes an appearance in town at Cog Hill in Lemont this Wednesday for an entire 60 minutes between 2-3 PM. For more information please visit Coghillgolf.com #Rydercup. _____________________________________________________________________

THE GOG BLOG by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. On the 6th hole covered bridge at the Crooked Stick Golf Club home of this weeks BMW Championship.

It’s Labor Day and many people have the day off, if you do what are you doing today. Are you at the BBQ or watching the ball game, are you at the course and getting in 18 holes or at least nine.

Golf today is a great way to spend some time with family or friends, take out the junior golfer and let him or her learn the game.

Many courses have deals today, especially if you want to play this afternoon. If you are reading this after you went out and played early this morning, then sit back with a cold beverage and enjoy the PGA Tour final round in Boston and get ready for the BMW Championship being played this week in Indiana, north of Indy at Crooked Stick in Carmel.

Today is a rare Monday finish on the PGA Tour, but hey it’s the playoff’s so the tour is trying to be creative. They are ducking the weather so there was an early start today and Rory McIlroy is making a charge. McIlroy who won in Boston in 2012, also won the BMW Championship that year at Crooked Stick, could history repeat itself, maybe so. If you are Darren Clarke the team Europe Ryder Cup Captain, you are hoping McIlroy is regaining his form that has helped him win 4 majors.

THE RYDER CUP is coming to Cog Hill this Wednesday as part of it’s trophy tour, which is great, but it’s only there for 1 hour. 2-3 PM. You would think think it would be there for at least 2 hours minimum or why bring it there at all. Take those pictures quickly folks, the trophy will be gone before you know it.

GOLFERS ON GOLF RADIO will be gone before you know it too, as this Sunday is week 22 of our 22 week run for the 2016 golf season. Chicago’s Favorite Foursome of Ed Stevenson, Mike Munro, Bill Berger and your’s truly have enjoyed our past 21 weeks, and are working on a great show to close it out for 2016, be tuned in this Sunday at 9 Am on Am 1240 WSBC.

LABOR DAY is considered by some to be the end of summer, even though it really isn’t until the calendar says so later in month. But the passing of Labor Day doesn’t mean the end of golf season, especially with two more weeks of PGA Tour playoffs and the Ryder Cup 3 weeks away.

So clean up the clubs and get ready for the fall golf season. There are golfers that will tell you it’s the best time of the year to play. It’s always fun to throw the bag over your shoulder and get in a good walk. The high heat and humidity disappear and there is nothing like walking those final few holes as the earlier sunsets start to happen.

I SPENT part of the summer reorganizing my golf bag. Got a new driver and played a few rounds without a driver in the bag. Then I sold off my irons and had to wait a longer than planned for the new ones to come in. I had to play 11 rounds with borrowed irons, which were the same brand and model number, but different shafts and grips than I was used to didn’t help much. Now I have the new clubs, but I’m still trying to replace the grips, since I did not get the ones I expected. I am looking forward to a fall season with a full bag of clubs and with a complete set, that is set up to my specs. I figure I’ll have things dialed in about the time the snow starts falling and the domes open for winter.

The BMW tee’s off this week at “The Stick” drive down and support the Evans Scholars, I’ll see you there. The end of summer season is starting this week, go play. RS