THE MISTWOOD GOLF CLUB in Romeoville has ladies Golf night tomorrow night May 23rd from 5:30 to 7 Pm. it’s the first ladies golf night of the season, ladies can hit balls on the range, enjoy food or beverage, or play a few holes on the Ray Hearn designed Mistwood Championship Golf Course. The next ladies golf night is June 6th. Details at Mistwoodgc.com or call (815)-254-3333. Don’t forget the Women’s Co-AM leading into the Women’s Western Golf Association’s National Amateur Championship on June 24th, The Phil Kosin Illinois Women’s Peo-Am is Sunday July 15th with the Illinois Women’s Open being played on July 16-17-18. Mistwood Golf a Golfweek Best in State ______________________________________________________________________
THE GOG BLOG by RORY SPEARS, Director of Content and Creation, follow Rory on Twitter @GogBlogGuy, Linkedin and Facebook. On the first tee at Harbor Shores Golf Club home of this weeks Sr. PGA Championship.
THERE WAS SAD NEWS from the world of wmen’s golf yesterday, with the passing of LPGA Hall of Famer Carol Mann.
Mann passed away in her home in the Woodlands of Texas, at the age of 77. Mann whose roots in golf come from the Olympia Field Country Club in the south suburbs, won 38 times on the LPGA Tpur and had two major wins. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
“You always hate to lose a family member especially one like Carol who meant so much,” said LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan. “She certainly left the LPGA in better shape than she found it.”
While Mann is in two Hall of Fame’s, shockingly she is not in the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame. No cause of death was released for Mann.
DOUG GHIM of Arlington Heights and a member of the University of Texs Golf Team was named the winner of the Ben Hogan Award in Fort Worth Texas on Monday night.
Ghim is the first Texas player to win the award since 1993. The Hogan award is the college golfer player of the year award, and is similar to the Heisman trophy of college football.
Ghim will play for the NCAA National Championship with his Longhorn Teammates starting this weekend, and then the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills in two weeks. Following the U.S. Open he will turn professional. Ghim could receive a sponsors exemption to the John Deere Classic in July. Tournament Director Clair Peterson admitting that Ghim is on the tournaments radar for an exemption this year.
BIG 3 PARTNER LEN ZIEHM has posted a recap of his golf trip to the Audubon Trail circuit in Louisiana, Ziehm played several courses in the area and has his review now online at lenziehmongolf.com.
ARCHITECT GREG MARTIN joins Golfers on Golf Radio AM 750 WNDZ this Saturday morning in the studio, as a guest host.
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