THE FRENCH LICK RESORT & THE PETE DYE COURSE has earned the 2017 Award as Golf Course of the Year from the National Golf Course Owners Association. The Senior LPGA Championship will be contested as part of an over week long celebration of women’s golf coming this July. Learn more at FrenchLick.com or at the French Lick Resort booth, at the Chicago Golf Show in Rosemont from Feb. 24-26.       ______________________________________________________________________

THE GOG BLOG by RORY SPEARS, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory to the Tinley Park Golf Show, and on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @Gog BlogGuy

It’s great to see golf filling up the local convention centers, it means that our main golf season, spring, summer and fall is just around the corner.

This weekend it’s the Tinley Park Golf Expo at the Tinley Park Convention Center at Rt. 80 and Harlem Avenue. The show in it’s sixth year, is the idea of Joe Copeland & Gregg Tengerstrom and Tenco Events.

If you attended the first year and then went back this year, you would notice how well the show has grown. The building is full from wall to wall, there are more booths selling something golf, and less booths selling something non-golf. Need tickets to attend the NCAA Championships at Rich Harvest Farms this May, you can purchase them at the show, and the same goes for if you need tickets for the KPMG/LPGA/PGA Championship this June and early July at Olympia Fields.

Ken Churilla the marketing director from the Homewood based Ravisloe Golf Club, explains how this former private club, is now a top rated public golf course that anyone can play.

If your looking for a top rated public course to play, why not Ravisloe. This Donald Ross design that used to be private is now public and anyone can play.

Ravisloe is now tied into a local hotel that gives you and your group of dinning and staying the night before, or after your round. Stop by the booth and see marketing director Ken Churilla, and pro Kevin Fitzgerald to learn everything about what Ravisloe can offer on and off the golf course.

There are new owners of the Balmoral Woods golf club in Crete, stop by the Balmoral booth to learn about the courses new connection with the ownership group that has taken control of the nearby Balmoral Race track.

Courses like Cog Hill, Glenwoodie and Mistwood have booths, and so does MCQ’s Dome and Chicagoland Golf.

So head out to the Tinley Park Golf Show, check in with the courses, buy some new equipment or golfballs, and maybe win a prize. Show hours are 9-6 today and 9-4 on Sunday.

FREE PARKING-for more information Tinleyparkgolfexpo.com