THE LONG PUTT CONTEST is back. So is the main stage. The Chicago Golf Show presented by the French Lick Resort hosting the new Sr. LPGA Championship coming this July. (Frenchlick.com) Feb. 24-26 at the Donald Stephens Convention Center is the dates for your tee time at the Chicago Golf Show, mark it down right now #golfshow. ______________________________________________________________________
The Illinois PGA Free Lesson area, get some tips from the pro’s. During the show stop and visit the McQ’s and Mistwood both, McQ’s Dome on Rt. 53 in Bolingbrook, online see Mcqsdome.com.
CHICAGOLAND GOLF MAGAZINE the booth at the Chicago Golf Show (L), Brendan Sweeney at the French Lick Resort booth, this years Chicago Golf Show’s presenting sponsor.
CHICAGOLAND GOLF MAGAZINE and the 2017 Chicago Golf Show are introducing a new 4-color glossy magazine-style show program, this presented by Chicagoland Golf the area’s most popular local golf publication.
This new program will have several articles about the upcomihg Chicago area golf season, including the U.S. Open, the Women’s PGA Championship, BMW Championship, the Rust-Oleum Championship and the Western Amateur.
“The Chicago Golf Show is excited to collaborate with Chicagoland Golf to produce a high-quality show program aimed at giving attendees, exhibitors and other advertisers an opportunity to get together in print the way they do on the Golf Show exhibit floor,” said show operator Tom Corcoran. “Chicagoland Golf has been producing an excellent publication since 1989 and we know it will do a great job with our show issue.”
This special editon is available by mail, or picking it up on the show floor during show. It will be found at golf retailers and golf courses in the spring according to publisher Val Russell.
“We are going to produce 40,000 high-end glossy magazines with 40 percent editoral content that will be valuable to golfers and golf advertisers,” Russell said. “On the editorial side, it will be produced by the same great editors and writers who are responsible for our publication during the heart of golf season.”
Anyone wishing to advertise in this edition or other editions through out 2017 should contact Val Russell at (847)-683-4770 or [email protected].
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The publication wil include an exhibitor show map that will be handy for show attendees. Over the last five years the show has drawn over 15,000 people to the convention center.
In some recent years, the show has drawn at least 20,000 people with most of them being avid golfers.
French Lick Resort the show’s presenting sponsor, was just ranked among the “Best Resorts” in the America’s by Golf Digest Magazine.
In each edition of Chicagoland Golf look for the “Spears on Golf” column. In the CGS edition, see our story on the NCAA Championships coming this May to Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove.