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*****BREAKING NEWS*****
THE BIG 3 golf media partnership of Golfers on Golf, Len Ziehm on Golf, and Tim Cronin’s Illinois Golfer are the first media outlets to report that the Western Golf Association (WGA) is building a new headquarters in Glenview Illinois.
Multiple sources confirmed the new offices, as the WGA has out-grown it’s longtime offices in Golf, and now Oak Brook Illinois. As a result, the decision was made to bring the WGA under one roof.
Ground has been broken at the new location for the WGA offices in Glenview.
The WGA has made no secret of trying to increase the number of caddies of up to 1,000 Evans Scholars per year, attending college by the year 2020. As the number of scholars grows, so does the size and the operation of the WGA-Evans Scholars Foundation.
WGA officials were unavailable for comment, but the location of the offices was confirmed by the Village of Glenview, and other sources.
In 2019, the WGA will have it’s annual PGA Tour event back in the Chicago area, when the BMW Championship is played at Medinah Country Club in August.
The foundation area for the new WGA offices is being dug-out, and a security fence sits around the property that borders up to Patriot Drive (on the right), in the area of Glenview known as “The Glen”. The WGA property sits just south of Willow Road.
The WGA in 2019, will have a second area championship, The Evans Scholars Championship that is a Web.com Tour event. It will be played from May 23-26, and will be held at the Glen Club, that’s located only two blocks away from the site of the new offices. The Glen Club is operated by KemperSports Management, and serves as home to the Illinois PGA, the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame, and the Illinois Open Championship. The Glen Club does have a caddie program.
There is no announced date for the WGA to move into the new facility, but the WGA is expected to make announcement on the project in early 2019. The 2019 WGA Junior Championship, will be played in June at Jerry Rich’s, Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove. The 2019 Western Amateur will return to the Point O’Woods Country Club in Benton Harbor Michigan. For more information on WGA Championships, and the Evans Scholars college scholarship program, please visit wgaesf.org.