THE GREEN STREET GRILLE now OPEN in Bensenville. Owners Jim McWethy and Mike Munro two golf dome owners and former owners, invite you into their new venture on Green St. in Bensenville, where The Golf Channel is always on the Big Screen. More on social media #Eatatgreenstreet. A tip of the cap or golf visor to everyone at the DuPage Country Forest Preserve District on the Green Star Award from the Golf Digest Magazine for the work at The Preserve at Oak Meadows in Addison. Dupagegolf.com     _____________________________________________________________________

11th hole at Erin Hills; Erin, Wisconsin; August, 2010. PM shoot; photo by Paul Hundley

THE GOG BLOG by Director of Content, Rory Spears. Follow Rory all the way to Erin Hills, and on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy.

The folks at Erin Hills want to thank everyone for a wonderful and very special 2017. As the home of this years U.S. Open heads into a year for the first time in over a decade where there is no USGA event to plan for, they focus even more on you the guest, the golfer, the person who loves the great game of golf. The U.S. Open saw over 5,200 volunteers to work the event, and over 200,000 fans who showed up to be there in person. The golfers who played Erin Hills in 2017, waited until after July 1st to do it.

This year Erin Hills will open for public play on May 7th, and there are several new enhancements to the facility. Those improvements will be discussed closer to opening day. Erin Hills is now taking tee times and overnight lodging requests for 2018.

To make your reservations now, you need to call (866)-772-4769. For more information you can visit Erinhills.com. Erin Hills #44 in America by Golf Digest Magazine.

Erin Hills and it’s main clubhouse and surrounding cottages.

There are now special packages for early May, the 4th of July and the around Labor Day weekend and near the seasons end in the fall.

You can purchase full rounds at $295.00 per round and including lodging, and at these special times and then earn discounts or complimentary rounds of golf the next day.

Erin Hills is now one of the six golf courses in America that have hosted a U.S. Open, that are open to the public golfer to enjoy. So come play where the worlds top professionals and amateurs competed for the major title of U.S. Open Champion. Come play Erin Hills, in the heart of Wisconsin a quickly growing golf mecca.