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THE GOG BLOG by RORY SPEARS, Director of Content and Creation. Follow Rory on Twitter @GogBlogGuy, and or Linkedin and Facebook. In the simulators at Club Champion Golf in Schaumburg.

THE WEATHER SAYS 45 TODAY are you getting out for golf ? Places like Cog Hill have Courses 1 & 3 open for golf today.

Speaking of Cog Hill, General Manager Troy Newport checked in with GOG yesterday and gave us this news. That Cog Hill Golf & Country Club, now part of Palos Park IL., has entered into a partnership with Toptracer Range, a subsidiary of Topgolf.

This addition provides an upgrade, to the 21 heated and covered hitting bays that make up Cog Hill’s year-round practice facility. To explain Toptracer if your not familiar with it, is that Toptracer is a technology that includes high speed cameras, aligned with sophisticated computer algorithims, to provide instantaneous ball tracking information to golfers hitting on the range.

Cog Hill’s practice range is open year round, and heated.

Adding Toptracer to Cog Hill, is what Newport feels can introduce the game of golf to more people, and developing new golfers.

“We think Toptracer is the next step in embracing the newest technology and providing ways for all types of golfers to have fun and improve,” said Newport.” Cog Hill is a national leader in providing golf opportunites and access and we think it’s only natural that we are the Chicagoland area’s first golf course range to offer Toptracer.”

Cog Hill plans to allow range customers complete access to the Toptracer system with each purchse of range balls in all sizes. This will make Toptracer affordable for all Cog Hill customers. In addition, events and leagues will be formed where groups of golfers can meet and practice, or play games. Food and beverage from a limited menu, right at the range. Leagues and events are priced on an hourly rate.

  Welcome to Cog Hill home of Top 100 golf course “Dubsdread” Course #4. And Happy Holidays from Jemsek Golf and every one at Cog Hill.

Cog Hill Golf & Country Club is the Chicago area’s largest public golf facility with four golf courses, full practice facility, stately clubhouse, with two full service pro shops, and home to Dubsdread, a Top 100 golf course that has hosted 20 PGA Tour events, and multiple USGA Championships. Cog Hill can reached via Coghillgolf.com or by calling (866)-264-4455 (866-Cog Hill).

PROJECT GOLF a Myrtle Beach initiative that works ing rowing the game of golf, has received a $25,000 dollar donation from the Heritage Classic Foundation, the host organziation for the PGA Tour’s RBC Heritage presented by Boeing. The money donated was raised through a two-day event the Congressional Cup. For more details about Project Golf visit Projectgolf.org.

Nick Sherburne Founder of Club Champion in it’s Willowbrook Illinois Corporate headquarters.

Club Champion has announced they are “upping their game”, as they offer over $1,000 of added benefits, with their new Member Rewards Program when customers make a qualifying purchases.

As part of the program, members receive a free or discounted fitting, complimentary practice time using TrackMan or in the hitting bays, free installation of grips  that are purchased at Club Champion, free loft and lie adjustments on Club Champion Clubs, golf ball discounts and more. Program qualification starts when over $1,000 dollars or Club Champion purchases have been made. The amount can be reached cumulatively as long as purchased are made within 12 months.

“The core of Club Champion is to create happy golfers who play better golf,” said Nick Sherburne, founder of Club Champion. “This new member benefits program is our way of rewarding those golfers for trusting us with their game.”

More details about Club Champion are found at Clubchampiongolf.com with several Chicago area locations including Willowbrook, Schaumburg and Chicago.

Palmetto Dunes resort is located on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, and is right on the Atlantic Ocean.

The December issue of Golf Digest announced the “Best Teachers in State” as voted on by their peers.

The magazine recognized 651 teachers, after polling over 1,500 gof instructors across America.

In South Carolina at the Palmetto Dunes Resort on Hilton Head Island, Director of Instruction Doug Weaver made the list for South Carolina.

Weaver says the, “vote from my peers has me humbled.” Weaver was also named into the Lowcountry Golf Hall of Fame in 2017, and was the Lowcountry player of the year for 2019. Weaver oversee’s the Palmetto Dunes teaching staff, and does what his students need him to do, and that’s teach them with all the longtime tested techniques in golf instruction, while giving them all the modern day data from state of the art sytems like Trackman, TPI Fitness and more.

The par 5, 10th hole on the Jones Course at Palmetto Dunes Resort on Hilton head Island.

Weaver made history in the 1989 U.S. Open at Oak Hill Country Club when he was the first of four players to make a hole-in-one on the par 3, 6th hole. The others were Nick Price, Jerry Pate and Mark Wiebe. For Weaver that is one of his ten hole-in-ones over his lifetime. He won 15 mini-tour events and had three-top 25 finishes on the PGA Tour. Weaver credits Jack Nicklaus, Sam Snead and Davis Love II as teaching influences.

For more information on Weaver and the teaching programs and school at Palmetto Dunes Resort on Hilton Head Island, call (866)-744-7558 or visit Palmettodunes.com./golfhiltonhead-golf-instruction. Palmetto Dunes has three championship golf courses, including the Fazio, Jones and Hills golf courses, named after the architects that designed them.

  KEMPERSPORTS PRESIDENT Josh Lesnick (L) and RICH HARVEST FARMS GM Keith Rich (R) accept CDGA Distinguished Service Awards on behalf of Mike Keiser and Jerry Rich.

The Chicago District Golf Association Distinguished Service Awards are presented periodically to worthy recepients, who have served to advance and preserve the vauled tradtions and standards of the game of golf. The award was first presented in 1989 to four recepients, Arnold Palmer, Joe Jemsek of Cog Hill, and St. Andrews, Carol McCue the first Executive Director of the CDGA, and Charles Eckstein an Illinois Golf Hall of Famer.

Only 20 individuals have ever received the award, including James O’Keefe and William Pauley Jr. in 1991. Ray Anderson, Marlene Miller and Ken Venturi in 1994. Gordon “Joe” Ewen in 1996. John Kenney in 2000. Joel Hirsch in 2001. Carl Hopphan and Brent Wadsworth in 2003. Frank Jemsek & family in 2004. Michael Maykut in 2014. Bob Berry and Don Gardner in 2014.

THE ERIN HILLS BONUS GIFT CARD sale is now running. Depending on your pruchase amount, you can get the Erin Hills coffee table book, and bonus amounts added on your gift card. Call Erin Hills at (866)-772-4769 or see Erinhills.com.

MORE COMING UP LATER TODAY..Stay clicked in. RS