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THE GOG BLOG by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. With the Western Amateur Sweet 16 trophy at Rich Harvest Farms

The national championships of the NCAA and the Final Four are coming to Sugar Grove and to Jerry Rich’s, Rich Harvest Farms in 2017.

This is your chance to see the best golf teams in the county battle it out for the national championship.

Have you ever seen a final four in person, well here is your chance and there is plenty of tickets available right now. But don’t wait until the last minute and take a chance of the event selling out.

Golfers from both the men and the women’s championships will likely play on the PGA and LPGA tours in just a few years, see some of them in their days as an amateur player. Currently the University of Illinois Men’s team is #1 in the country and the Northwestern Women’s team is highly ranked as well.

Some of the other top schools expected to be in the championships are USC, Texas, California, Arizona State, Duke, Oklahoma State, Oregon and Stanford.

Click here to hear the interview with Rich Harvest Farms owner Jerry Rich on hosting the NCAA National Championships.

The dates of the two championships are May 19-24 for the Women, and May 26-31 for the Men.

Applications are being accepted for volunteers, and for tickets please visit NCAA.com/Tickets. the championship is hosted by Northern Illinois University.

             The NCAA national championship trophy (L) and ticket information for both weeks (R).    Hosted by NIU at Rich Harvest Farms.