McQs Dome part of Mistwood Golf on Rt. 53 in Bolingbrook, is a great place for indoor golf, playing the ponies in the OTB, and for food and beverage in the dome or in McQs Restaurant, McQ’s is an offical Blackhawks bar, where are you watching the Jan. 2nd Winter Classic. Hit balls, get lessons or club fittings. Mcqsdome.com or (630)-739-1592. ______________________________________________________________________

  THE NCAA MEN’S AND WOMEN’S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS coming to Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove IL. May 19-31, The women play first May 19-24, and then the men from May 26-31. Tickets on sale NOW, see NCAA.com/Tickets hosted by NIU.        _____________________________________________________________________

The Gog Blog by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. On the 18th green at 2017 Men’s U.S. Open site Erin Hills in Wisconsin.

I have already written in past weeks about two organziations that are trying to create problems for the U.S. Women’s Open.

Ultra Violet and Color of Change, are trying to use women and golf to attack our nations 45th President Donald Trump.

This summer the United States Golf Association will contest the U.S. Women’s Open at Trump Bedminster in New Jersey. The club is owned by President Trump.

The two above organziations would like the masses to believe their concerns are about golf or women and women’s sports. They are not. They are simply politicial attacks on the White House and the President. The members of these two groups are entitled to their point of view. But both have hired PR firms, to send members of the golf media emails, in regards to interviewing their spokespeople.

However those emails show just how unorganized these groups and PR firms are. First up they accuse the LPGA of taking the championship to Bedminster. The LPGA has no input on where the U.S. Women’s Open is played, the USGA fully decides when and where the championship will be contested.

Perhaps the best news of all is that the USGA will not move the championship, regardless of any actions taken by these political groups. The USGA recently released a statement that says the following.

“The USGA has a deep respect for the freedoms we all enjoy in our country to express our views. We are committed to fostering a game that is welcoming and inclusive to all who choose to play it, and ensuring our championships are conducted without discrimination and in a safe and secure manner for athletes, volunteers, staff and fans. We are excited to provide a comprehensive test of golf for the very best female players in the world.”   USGA STATEMENT IN FULL.

Golfers on Golf fully supports the USGA, and it’s right to hold and contest it’s championships on the golf courses their committee’s select for such competitions. The Bedminster course should offer a great test of golf for this years U.S. Women’s Open.

  THE 2017 MEN’S AND WOMEN’S NATIONAL GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE COMING TO RICH HARVEST FARMS FROM MAY 19-24 THE WOMEN, MAY 26-31 THE MEN TEE IT UP.  Well priced tickets are on sale now at NCAA.Com/Tickets. Hosted by NIU.   ______________________________________________________________________

THE GOG BLOG by RORY SPEARS, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on facebook, linkedin and twitter @GogBlogGuy and to the Glen Club home of the 2017 Illinois Open.

The Illinois PGA has finally announced the second course to be used for the 2017 Illinois Open.

Briarwood Country Club in Deerfield has been named to join the Glen Club in hosting the state of Illinois’ golf championship.

The states history books will have some action this year, as the Glen Club will host for the tenth time, more than any other golf course. Briarwood returns after a 51 year absence. The last visit to Briarwood saw long time Illinois PGA Professional Emil Esposito win the title, his first of two titles (1966-1974).

                                                                    IPGA Executive Director Carrie Williams (L) and defending Illinois Open Champion Carlos Sainz jr. (R).

“We are thrilled to announce two outstanding championship sites to host the 68th Illinois Open Championship,” said Carrie Williams, executive director of the Illinois PGA. “the Glen Club has been a longtime partner of the IPGA and is home to our Section headquarters, and Briarwood has both a tremendous history and a membership and staff excited to welcome back the state championship of golf. The two courses will provide challenging play and their close proximity to one another will ease logistics for players, fans, sponsors, staff and officials.”

The field  for the fourth year is 264 players. A majority of the field will need to qualify in one of eight qualifying events that will be held between June 26 and August 3rd.

The Illinois Open will be contested started on August 7th, with round two on August 8th. On those two days when rounds 1 & 2 are played, both courses will be in use. After round two the field will be cut to the top 50 players and any player within ten shots of the lead.

All remaining players after round two will be olay the Glen Club for the third and final round.

Briarwood was first opened at the Briergate Country Club in 1921, and was designed by the famed architecture team of Colt and Alison. The club was renamed in 1958. It now plays to a yardage of over 6,900 yards and to a par of 71.

The qualifer schedule is as follows: #1 June 26, at Willow Crest. #2 June 30, at Ravisloe. #3 July 5th at Maple Meadows. #4 July 11th, at Red Tail. #5 July 17th at Bartlett Hills. #6 July 19th at Makray Memorial. #7 July 26th at Deerfield. #8 August 3rd at site that is still TBA.

For more infomration visit IPGA.com.

 JERRY RICH’S-RICH HARVEST FARMS WILL PLAY HOST TO THE 201 MEN’S AND WOMEN’S NCAA GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS FROM MAY 19-31. The ladies are on the tee May 19-24, and the Men from May 26-31. Come root on your school or alma mater fight for the national championship. Two final fours in two weeks, and you can purchase the well priced tickets now at NCAA.com/tickets. Northern Illinois University is the host.  _____________________________________________________________________

 THE ENTRANCE TO AUGUSTA NATIONAL (L). The Gog Blog by Rory Spears, follow Golfers on Golf via Rory Spears on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. In case you missed it, Golfers on Golf Radio returns this SATURDAY at 9AM on AM 750 WNDZ. Check us out on our new day and new station, hear us in IL-WIS-MICH-IND.

BREAKING NEWS-IPGA ANNOUNCES COURSES FOR 2017 ILLINOIS OPEN. The Glen Club in Glenview, and the second course is Briarwood in Deerfield.

The front gate of Augusta National Golf Club.

A TRADITION UNLIKE ANY OTHER, yes it is. It is sport in the truest form of sport, most people get it, only a few people don’t.

When the week is over at the 81st Masters Tournament, another golfer will have a green jacket to wear. It might be a player who already has a green jacket, or maybe one that is getting his first. Regardless, it is always a special moment when the defending champion slips the green jacket over the shoulders of that years current champion. Even players who who don’t play the following year, or might miss the cut on Friday, are there on Sunday to present the winner his new green jacket.

Speaking of Sunday, another one of the slogans at the Masters is that the tournament starts on the “Back Nine on Sunday”, and there is nothing like the stretch run at the Masters, the best part is that you the patron, get to enjoy it for more than a minute like at a horse or car race, it lasts for a few hours.

The term “patron” even gives the average fan a little more status than they normally have, but if your on the hallowed grounds of Augusta National you need to act like it. There are plenty of “Pinkertons” around to make sure security and safety measures are enforced. There will be no running, screaming, or yelling stupid slogans from the Howard Stern show, the last one especially will get you ejected quickly.

THE NEW MEDIA center by some estimates might have cost the club just over $50 million dollars, and based on the pictures I saw (posted on my facebook page) it’s how you operate media coverage, media seating, media food and beverage the right way. If you want to present the product or control the message, this is how you do it. Most professional sports teams or colleges could learn a lot from Augusta National

SPEAKING OF FOOD AND BEVERAGE the Masters Tournament gets it right. There are no $8.50 cent domestic “watered-down” light beers. There are no $7.00 pizza slices or $12.00 burgers or sandwiches. They all run about $3.00, and beverages such a soda cost $2.00. There are no $5.00 bottles of water, they too run about $2.00. The famed Pimento cheese sandwich is still $1.50.

TELEVISION does not do the golf course justice, but most golfers that have ever taken a picture on a golf course with some sort of elevation change understand that. Augusta National is much more hilly, than CBS makes it appear. What CBS and the Masters do a great job of, is keeping commercials to a minimum. There is only two minute ad breaks, not five, there will not be countless promo’s for a new edition of some show four days away.

TRADITION, yes it starts early in the week with a champions dinner and par 3 contest, and then ceremonial tee shots by the greats of the sport and master history. It ends with the winner getting an invitation to keep coming back for years to come.

The Masters Tournament is a week in sports we all wish we could enjoy more than one week per year, it’s a special event in one of the few remaining cathedrals of sport.

CONGRATULATION’S  Sergio Garcia on that first major championship and the new green jacket, wear it well. RS.

The Gog Blog returns tomorrow with more on the return of Golfers on Golf Radio.

 THE 2017 MEN’S AND WOMEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS at RICH HARVEST Farms in Sugar Grove. The Women are on the tee from May 19-24 and the Men follow from May 26-31. Get your tickets now, they are on sale at NCAA.Com/tickets. #Twofinalfours ______________________________________________________________________

GOLFERS ON GOLF RADIO is, Standing L-R Mike Munro and Ed Stevenson. Seated L-R Rory Spears and Bill Berger. Follow Golfers on Golf through Rory Spears on facebook, linkedin and twitter @GogBlogGuy.

THE WAIT IS OVER, Golfers on Golf Radio returns this Saturday April 15th on a new day, and a new station for 23 fun weeks of golf talk.

2017 will be a great summer to talk golf because there are plenty of great tournaments in the Chicago area, and the U.S. Open hits the Milwaukee area when it comes to Erin Hills the third week of June.

The tee time is still the same 9 AM, but new station is WNDZ 750 AM right in middle of the Chicago Am dial. (In between WGN 720 Am and WBBM at 780). So when you split the fairway right between those two big stations, you will find another big station and you will find us.

GOLFERS ON GOLF RADIO is Mike Munro, who will spend sometime talking about his new restaurant venture in Bensenville. Ed Stevenson the new Executive Director of the DuPage County Forest Preserve and Director of Golf. Bill Berger owner of Jakes Pizza on Grand Avenue in Franklin Park. Rory Spears, the longtime sports journalist that will have you covered on the all the tournaments, and the restoration and renovation projects around town.

This summer there are plenty of tournaments to cover. The NCAA Men’s and Women’s National Championship’s in May at Rich Harvest Farms. In June the Web.com Rust-Oleum Championship at Ivanhoe Country Club, The U.S. Open at Erin Hills, the KPMG/PGA Championship at Olympia Fields, The Sr. LPGA Championship at the French Lick Resort in July, The John Deere Classic, The WGA Centennial Junior Golf Championship at Park Ridge, The Western Amateur at Skokie Country Club, the BMW Championship at Conway Farms. Illinois PGA section majors and the Phil Kosin Illinois Women’s Open Championship at Mistwood.

 Golfers on Golf sends out a special thanks to our 2017 presenting sponsor the famed French Lick Resort, in French Lick Indiana. In 2017 the French Lick Resort will see it’s Donald Ross Course celebrate 100 years of great golf. Plus the launch of the inaugural Sr. LPGA Championship. French Lick Resort and Spa and Casino see Frenchlick.com.

Brendan Sweeney the former Medinah Country Club caddie and now Director of Golf Marketing at the French Lick Resort, joins us Week 1 to start off the season.

Golfers on Golf looks forward to having our listeners join in by calling the studio line this year, and listening to us in places they have not heard us before. With our new signal, golfers you can now hear us in Milwaukee and Southern Wisconsin, in South bend and Northwest Indiana, in Benton Harbor and all of Southwest Michigan. In Chicago and out to Rockford, past Elgin, Aurora, and Joliet.

We invite our listeners to enjoy the radio show, click in here at Golfersongolf.com and watch for our ad’s in our print partner, Val Russell’s Chicagoland Golf.

The radio show is working with several properties on being a site for a live show, details this summer on that as it happens.

Golfers on Golf Radio Saturday April 15th at 9 AM, on our new home 750 AM WNDZ, join us on the tee.   

 THE 2017 MEN’S AND WOMEN’S NCAA GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS AT RICH HARVEST FARMS in Sugar Grove. Women play May 19-24. The Men are May 26-31. Well priced tickets on sale now at NCAA.Com/tickets, parking of course is FREE. The Championships presented by Northern Illinois University. Two Final-fours in two weeks.  _____________________________________________________________________

GOLFERS ON GOLF RADIO RETURNS, SATURDAY 9 AM APRIL 15TH, NEW STATION INFORMATION SOON. WE’RE MOVING TO THE HEART OF THE AM DIAL.

GOLFERS ON GOLF RADIO-GOLFERSONGOLF.COM Welcome to the Gog Blog, by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy and to Blackwolf Run in Kohler.

Destination Kohler TODAY, wraps up a special 72 hour sale with discounts on stays fro the month of May.

From May 1 to May 31 you can stay at the Amercian Club, the famed Carriage House, and the Inn on Woodlake with new renovations. How about specials at the Kohler Waters Spa.

There are early season rates on golf as well. If you book your May stay’s by 5 PM today (CST), you can get some of the best deals of the year.

 SHIPWRECK the par 3, 7th hole at Whistling Straits, home of the 2020 Ryder Cup.

     THE AMERICAN CLUB  a 5 Star Destination, and the Kohler Waters Spa, one of the best places anywhere, to rest and relax.

CALL by 5 PM today about book your STAY FOR MAY. (866)-520-7452 or book online at Destinationkohler.com.

Four great golf courses and more. Drive time form the Chicago area is 2- 2 1/2 hours.

THE GOG BLOG by RORY SPEARS, editor and director of content. Follow Rory to the US Open at Erin Hills, and on facebook, linkedin and twitter @GogBlogGuy. With the U.S. Open trophy at Gino’s East in Rosemont.

THE U.S. OPEN makes a rare Midwest appearance this June when it visits Erin Hills just Northwest of Milwaukee. Do you have your tickets yet, if not visit USGA.org/tickets.

GOLFERS ON GOLF RADIO RETURNS SATURDAY APRIL 15TH AT 9 AM, ______________________________________________________________________

The Seventh Hole of the Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, IL as seen on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. (Courtesy USGA)

The USGA has announced that there will be 26 exemption categories for the inaugural U.S. Sr. Women’s Open, that will be contested from July 12-15 in 2018.

The U.S. Sr. Women’s Open is open to professionals or amateurs whose handicap index does not exceed 7.4 and have reached their 50th birthday by the first round of the championship on July 12th.

THE CENTENNIAL BOOK on the Chicago Golf Club.

The field will be 120 players, and exempt players who wish to compete must file and entry. Qualifying siteswill be announced in spring of 2018.

“Starting in summer fo 2018, the U.S. Sr. Women’s Open Championship will provide the game’s ultimate test for some of the most decorated women in golf, both professional and amateur,” said Stuart Francis, USGA Championship Committee Chariman. “Chicago Golf Club, one of the five founding member clubs of the USGA, will serve as a grand stage that will celebrate these incredible players who have paved the way for the current generation while continuing to elevate the game we all love.”

The clubhouse and MacDonald statue at the Chicago Golf Club.

There are several players who already fit the exemption criteria. They include three time U.S.Women Open champion Hollis Stacy, two-time champion Juli Inkster, Amy Alcott, Pat Bradley, Laura Davies, Meg Mallon and Liselotte Neumann. All past U.S Women’s Open Champions.

Any player in her first three years of age eligibility who has won the U.S. Women’s Amateur, the ANA Inspiration, Ricoh Women’s Open, KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Evian Championship or the Ladies British Open Amateur, players exempt from this category are Dottie Pepper ANA Champion 1992-1999, Kay Cockerill 1986-1987 U.S. Amateur Women’s champion, and Pearl Sinn 1988 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion.

The Chicago Golf Club is celebrating it’s 125th anniversary this year, and will be in it’s 126th year during tournament week. The Pine Needles Resort in Southern Pines, North Carolina, will be the host of the 2019 U.S Sr. Women Open Championship. The 2020 site has not yet been announced.

For more information visit USGA.org and see the championships section.

    The 2017 NCAA Men’s and Women’s golf championships coming to Rich Harevst Farms in Sugar Grove. May 19-24 for the Women. May 26-31 for the Men, come cheer on your team or alma mater. Well priced tickets moving quickly, parking is free. Order tickets now at NCAA.com/tickets. Enjoy walking the grounds of Rich Harvest Farms.       ______________________________________________________________________

THE GOG BLOG by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. With my 2017 Illinois Golf Hall of Fame Nominee Len Ziehm (R).

In 2017, the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame committee will be electing a few new additions to the Illinois Hall of Fame.

The Illinois Golf Hall of Fame is located at the Glen Club in Glenview Illinois.

The panel will meet on April 18th to reduce the list of this years nominees, which is a list of 28, and make it only the 10 finalists.

Then on May 3rd the panel meets for the final vote. They will hear short presentations from the people who nominated the finalists before casting their final vote. Hall of Fame Director Tim Cronin will oversee the voting, and then immediately notify the nominees who have been selected into the Hall of Fame that evening.

The 28 nominees for this years class are: 1. Don Armstrong, winner of two Illinois stae majors. 2. Doug Bauman, winner of five state majors. 3. Robert Berns, graphic art expert for Wilson and Ram golf. 4.Louis Brown Sr. IPGA Foundation supporter. 5. Rick Dalpos winner of three state majors. 6. Emil Esposito, winner of three state majors. 7. Gray Groh, winner of Hawaiian Open on the PGA Tour and 5 state majors. 8. Gary Hallberg 3 time winner on the PGA Tour, and 5 state majors.9. Richie Hammel, co-founder of the Illinois PGA Central Illinois Chapter. 10. David Huske, winner of 2 state majors.

11. Drue Johnson, won WAC at Arizona. 12. Phil Kosin, publisher of Chicagoland Golf and founder of the Illinois Women’s Open. 13. Greg Kunkel, long time caddie and caddie master. 14. William Langford, golf architect ASGCA co-founder. 15. Carol Mann winner of two majors and 38 LPGA titles. 16. Tim Miles Sr. of GolfVisions. 17. Bruce Patterson, two-time IPGA professional of the year. 18. Francis Peabody, helped create the CDGA. 19. Gary Pinns, Five time Illinois Open winner. 20. Earl Puckett long time golf top rated golf instructor.

Ivanhoe Country Club Director of Golf Jim Sobb during his acceptance speech, as part of the 2015 class of the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame.

21. Harry Radix, created PGA Tour scoring award. 22. Jerry Rich, Rich Harvest Farms builder, Kids Golf Foundation, WGA supporter. 23. Horton Smith Masters winner and 26 other tour wins. 24. Jim Suttie, won several top teacher awards. 25. Roger Warren, former president of the PGA of America. 26. Bob Wittek ran Wittek Golf supply. 27. Bob Zender won six Illinois major titles. 28. Len Ziehm, 49 year golf writer/ Sun Times and Daily Herald.

Golfers on Golf will post the winners on selection night May 3rd. Stay clicked in. You can visit the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame at the Glen Club daily, there is no charge.

THE NCAA MEN’S AND WOMEN’S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS coming to Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, well priced tickets and FREE Parking NCAA.com/Tickets May 19-31.

GREAT GOLF ON A COLD DAY. Part 2 of 2 which concludes a run a of great courses out on Long Island in New York, from a a trip I took back in 2014. While there are many great golf area’s around America, Long Island ranks right up at the top.

Unfortunately a majority of the great clubs on Long Island are private, much like the North Shore of Chicago. So as golf leads into the first major of the year, The Masters Tournament in Augusta Georgia, I offer you yet one more reason to be inspired to get the clubs out of the closet, cleaned up, and ready for that first 18 holes of 2017. A year that will be a good one for golf in the Chicago and Midwest area. Go Play. RS

IF YOUR ON THE NORTH SHORE of Long Island and can get access to the Sands Point Golf Club, where golf really started in 1927, you will have a golf experience to enjoy. It’s a property and a club with a rich history, if you visit the clubs website and check out the history section, you will recognize some names that stand out from the clubs files.

The Par 3, second hole at Sands Point Golf Club, in Sands Point NY.

One name that golfers will recognize is the course architect A.W. Tillinghast, who convinced the club in the mid to late1920’s that the property would be good for golf, but that an old nine hole layout needed to go, and changes must be made for a top level, fun golf course.

Changes were agreed upon, and Tillie set to work, creating an 18 hole routing that golfers enjoyed.

One problem that nobody saw coming was that shortly after the course opened, the Great Depression came along and the club like many others started to have financial woes. But it managed to stay open and survive, and after WWII the club dropped polo for good, and settled on being a top notch golf club, which it still is today.

The Par 3, 7th hole at Sands Point

Sands Point upgraded it’s golf product in the fall of 2012, when restoration and renovation architect specialist Keith Foster was brought in by the club to retore the orginal nature of the Tillinghast design.

In two years the club was back up and running in a form that had everyone noticing the product, and the test of golf it produced.

Foster who is regarded as one of the best “bunker guys” in the world of golf architecture today, but some life back in Sands Point’s bunkers which is seen in the pictures of this feature.

    The par 3, 17th hole (L) is only 157 yards from the tips, but is all the golf hole you could want at that yardage. The 555 yard par 5, 18th hole requires two good shots, that set up a short iron or wedge into an elevated 18th green. Foster’s renovation project no doubt would have Tillinghast’s approval, and seeing this great classic course back in form, hopefully gets you ready to be in form for the start of golf season in Chicago.

SandsPoint is a Par 72 golf course, that plays 6,962 yards from the back tee’s and 5,545 from the front tee’s. See Sandspointgc.org for more history and photo’s.

THE GOG BLOG is written by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy.

Golfers on Golf Radio Returns SATURDAY April 15th at 9 AM, on a new station, stay clicked in for details.

   THE NCAA DIVISION 1 MEN’S AND WOMEN’S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS MAY 19-31. The Women from May 19-24, and the Men from May 26-31. Tickets are on sale NOW at NCAA.com/tickets. Tickets are well priced and parking is FREE, see the action up close ______________________________________________________________________

GOLFERS ON GOLF RADIO returns Saturday April 15th at 9 AM, Mike Munro, Ed Stevenson, Bill Berger all back for another season of great golf talk.

GOLFERS ON GOLF RADIO RETURNS SATURDAY APRIL 15TH AT 9 AM, details later this week on our new station.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR NEW PRESENTING SPONSOR, THE FRENCH LICK RESORT.

Home of the new Sr. LPGA Championship, and celebrating the 100th season of golf on the Donald Ross course. For more information on the French Lick Resort, please visit Frenchlick.com

THE LPGA…. what a mess. The first major of the year for the women ends up being a fiasco. But the ruling does expose some issues in the rules and what needs to be changed in the days, not weeks months or years ahead.

Lexi Thompson who is a major someone for the LPGA, and someone the LPGA has going for it. For her to be treated the way she was by getting a ruling near the 13th tee box a day later is awful.

There needs to be a drop dead date for rules violations to be enforced, and the days of taking calls from fans on their couch needs to end today. I can only imagine what the first question will be that Dustin Johnson gets asked in the press room at Augusta this week. I hope for his sake he watched the final round of the ANA, he will need some answers ready.

Social media was abuzz about the Thompson ruling, and what got some play was that even Tiger Woods chimed in about the bad decision, but he wan’t the only player that had something to say about the situation. The bottom line in the end was, that the entire circus was bad for the game of golf, and rules changes from the USGA and the other governing bodies of golf, can’t come fast enough.

SPEAKING OF WOODS.. he pulled out of this weeks Masters on the 20th anniversary of his first Masters win. He will attend the champions dinner and head for home. While some might miss his presence at Augusta, most golf fans are looking forward to the broadcast being about the relevant players in the tournament, and Woods not making a 15 foot putt for double bogey. Woods says his back is not yet allowing him to compete, and based on the physcial test that Erin Hills is, I’m not thinking he plays there either. We will see.

THE LAKE MICHIGAN shoreline course that Woods is supposed to design near a proposed Obama presidential library could have more image issues, after 7 people were shot dead in random shootings just blocks from the course in the past week. Not exactly what organizers are looking for, as they try and raise millions of dollars for the course renovation and improvements.

Welcome to Magnolia Drive at Augusta National Golf Club

The first of four majors is on the tee this week as the Masters Tournament tee’s off. Danny Willett is the defending champion but nobody is picking him to repeat. I’m not either.

Jordan Spieth is likely to be right there and Rory McIlroy is ready to close out the last major he needs for the career Grand Slam. One of the favorites will be Dustin Johnson with his run of late, but while his putting has been better, is the rest of his game outside of his driver ready for Augusta National.

THE MASTERS, A TRADITION UNLIKE ANY OTHER where the tournament starts during the back nine on Sunday. It should be a fun week, and by next week hopefully you are ready to go tee it up as well.

Western Amateur Champion Dylan Meyer earns a spot in the Valspar Championship in 2018.

University of Illinois Jr. Dylan Meyer the reigning Western Amateur Champion, has won a place on the PGA Tour in 2018.

By winning the 3M collegiate invite this past week in Augusta GA. while playing for the Fighting Illini, Meyer earned an exemption into the 2018 Valspar Championship that will be played at the Innisbrook Golf Resort in Palm Harbor Florida, on the Copperhead golf course. It will be Meyers first PGA Tour event.

More golf news coming out this week, stay clicked in. Enjoy the Masters. RS