EVAN SCHOLARS INVITATIONAL Teeing of tomorrow at the Glen Club. May 23-26. The cost is free to attend. ESInvitational.com/tickets. MIKE KEISER’S Sand Valley Golf Resort in Nekoosa Wisconsin, tee times and rooms are filling fast. See SandValley.com. ______________________________________________________________________

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This weeks new area Web.com event is called the Evans Scholars Invitational (ESI), it got on to the tour’s schedule through the hard work of many.

Mainly those folks in the Western Golf Association (WGA). One of the many partners the WGA has enlisted to make this championship happen, is Chicago golf enthusiast Mike Keiser.

During the ESI pro-am on Wednesday, Golfers on Golf caught up with Keiser. The man who been termed a visionary, in the sport of golf.

Keiser’s golf projects include, the Dunes Club in New Buffalo Michigan, Bandon Dunes on the coast of Oregon, Sand Valley in Wisconsin, and Cabot Links in Canada. There are more, and one of them is closer to home. So we will cover that here shortly.

Mammoth Dunes at Sand Valley by David Kidd

So the interview started with some thought about, Keiser’s involvement in helping tee-off the first ESI, this week at the Glen Club.

His help in getting the WGA towards it’s goal, of putting 1,000 Evans Scholars Caddies into colleges every year.

But no Keiser interview can be completed without covering, what’s happening at his golf properties listed above.

Because there is a new golf course in the works at Bandon Dunes. One that Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore are working on right now. Tom Doak is planning the fourth course at Sand Valley in Wisconsin. North of the border, plans are still going forward to make travel easier to Cabot Links.

There is another project on the drawing board for golf in Northern Oregon, and could have a very unique partner on board.

Mike Keiser (L) with architect Jim Urbina at the Dunes Club

Finally closer to home, the much talked about Jackson Park project. The questions there including the routing, the permitting, the where the money will come from. And since it’s Chicago, there is always a political side to everything.

Last week during Golfers on Golf Radio Am 750, golf industry analyst Bill Daniels was a guest on the show, to discuss progress, and or lack of it, on the Jackson Park-South Shore Golf Course renovations. It was suggested that it could be a project, and that the band the Talking Heads would call, “On the Road to Nowhere.”

But after speaking with Keiser today, that might not be the case.

Click here to hear our interview with Mike Keiser, that is spraying to several fairways in the world of golf.

Golfers on Golf Radio Radio Am 750 the Big WNDZ, will have continued discussion on these topics, Saturday morning between 10-11 AM.

Golfers on Golf Radio and and Golfersongolf.com, will have more stories all week from the first ESI, at the Glen Club.