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6 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com May 2019 7 Video Village The Joy of Design Tim Cronin

f you have ever doodled a design for a of graph paper, where you could establish Augusta National was a natural target to Igolf hole or three on paper, you’re in good the yardage per square and then, after put on the screen. This was before the company. Some of the most accomplished sharpening a No. 2 pencil, go wild. club authorized EA Sports to market a designers were doing that as kids. Where those Pebble Beach wanna-be game with not only the course as it was The inspiration in our case came from layouts are today, we have no idea. But in 2011, and an eventual later version early exposure to golf on television – not for a while a few years ago, the idea was including the course as it was in 1934, that there was a lot of it when dinosaurs rekindled when the word came that video before Alister MacKenzie’s original design still roamed the earth – and the occasional golf games included a design program. was give more facelifts than Joan Rivers diagram of a course in a newspaper, usually Our video game experiences began and Liz Taylor combined. (Video games when the Western Open or U.S. Open was and ended with Pong, which was best have the shelf-life of last years’ driver, on tap. experienced on an aging black-and-white so you have to go to ebay to find those Who couldn’t draw up a golf hole, or Zenith, just in case it screwed up the TV. But versions today.) a whole course? A bunker here, a pond or this was different, and the plunge was taken, One hole at a time, we drew up an stream here, trees speckling the landscape, the fine services of ebay used to procure Augusta National with not just tournament an arrow designating a hill, and presto, a copy of “Jack Nicklaus 4,” seemingly the and members tees, but also forward tees there’s a par 4 Jack or Arnie would have only game with a design program that for ladies and seniors, and a set of tees to break a sweat to par. could be used on a Macintosh computer. that would act as 1970s tournament tees. In this corner, the preferred surface This was graph paper golf design on In went the trees – including the lone palm for the latest concoction was a new sheet steroids. Rough and fairway and bunkers tree on the fourth hole and Pampas grass and lakes and streams and sidehill lies on the seventh, and so on. Bunkers were and a Morton Arboretum’s worth of drawn to mimic the shapes on each hole. flora and fauna. And, after designing It was discovered that you could spend a hole, you could play it, then tweak hours fiddling with the details, from ele- it, and rinse and repeat until it was vation changes – the most difficult thing the perfect imagined concoction to accomplish, and best left for last – to or as close to a hole in existence green shapes. as possible. The cool part was looking at the 3D With diagrams, photos, and TV versions, seeing if the trees were the right coverage to draw from, type and height – Activision, which created the Nicklaus game, really needed more versions of pine trees – and then playing it, knowing how the ball should react based on seeing the Masters. It was great, until the computer crashed one day – at the 2003 U.S. Open – and everything was lost. A laptop or two later, we still haven’t loaded the program back in, but it’s tempting, when watching Golf Channel and all the whiz-bang graphics on tourna- ment telecasts these days, to give it another go. After all, the pesky uphill par-5 eighth at Augusta still hasn’t been birdied. And it beats graph paper hands down.

Video Village is a new occasional department dedicated to golf on the screen, broadcast or otherwise. 8 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com May 2019 9 ture the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship on “I like to say that we caddie for each May 1 at Timuquana Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla. other in a sense. Being able to talk shots Down Memory Lane Furtney and Shepherd combined for 11 birdies on the through and have a lot of options open final day, knocking off Alexa Pano and Amari Avery in the is really important for us as a team.” Harris was a Lion Sweet morning semifinal before beating Floridians Jillian Bourdage it worked time and again. So did Sixty years ago, Bob Harris had a feeling. and Casey Weidenfeld for the title in the afternoon. clutch play, and Furtney showed that he was finishing up his final round in the Gleneagles Chicago Open, teens the 18-year-olds still are, but they had a plan for on the second hole of the title match. a 2-under-par 70, though 18 strokes off winner Ken Venturi’s 72-hole team play that the most veteran player could appreciate. Bunkered off the tee, she found the pace. But Harris felt new confidence. “I like to hit first every time so Megan can just kind of pin on the green was on the left side, “I’m starting to hit the ball well,” Harris told his playing partners. Home plan based on where I go, if she needs to play safe or if she behind a bunker. As she favors a high Usually a superb striker of the ball, Harris had said he was in a can attack. I think that’s benefitted us this week,” Shepherd draw on approaches, that was in her slump. The 70 turned things around, and the next day at Arlington said after their first-round victory. wheelhouse, even though she was in the Country Club, the 36-hole grind of the Illinois PGA Championship proved Furtney didn’t come out of nowhere. She scored two top- sand. Picking it perfectly, she hit it close, the slump was well back in the rear-view mirror. Chicago five finishes in the IHSA Girls AA championship at St. Charles made the birdie to square the match, Old Arlington, which disappeared circa 1980, wasn’t a behemoth, North and was pondering college plans as a freshman. She then birdied the third hole to go 1 up. but at 6,245 yards was testing enough to annoy those who missed fair- and Shepherd had teamed in the Four-Ball last year but were Furtney and Shepherd never looked ways. Harris missed nothing. He scored a 1-under 69 in the morning, as if knocked out in the semifinals. That result added impetus to back en route to a 2 and 1 victory. he was just warming up. this year’s effort. “They both played so amazing he was. In the afternoon, ignoring a north wind, he raced to an Shepherd, from Greenwood, Ind., won the U.S. Girls today,” Bourdage said of the winners. 8-under 62 to break the course record by three strokes and set a stan- Furtney Scores Four-Ball Triumph Junior two years ago. Furtney had played in the Girls Junior “Their putting was on fire and they were dard for the Illinois PGA Championship that has yet to be equaled. In It’s one thing to ham-and-egg it with a partner through a four years ago, although failed to make match play. She and just dropping birdies.” fact, in the 100 years of the soiree – 97 under the current name and the member-guest or something similarly competitive. Shepherd played like canny veterans navigating through “We tried our best to keep up,” first three, conducted as the Middle States PGA – there have only been it’s another to do so when a national title is at stake. the five match play rounds this time, including knocking off Weidenfeld conceded. “I mean, we got three 63s, and two of those have been authored by the redoubtable Mike Especially when you’re still in high school. Caroline Curtis and Ashley Gilliam in a quarterfinal match all the way to 17, so I guess we did well.” Small. don’t tell that to Megan Furtney of South Elgin, who that went an extra hole. Bourdage and Weidenfeld needed harris, who won an NCAA Championship as an amateur and preps at St. Charles North and who’ll enter Duke in the fall. “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it a hundred more times,” 20 holes to win their semifinal match. eventually settled in as the sage of Sunset Ridge, beat Midothian’s Tony national title on the line? USGA blazers everywhere? Furtney said after the title match. “We know each other’s Furtney and Shepherd dispatched Pano Holguin to the title by two strokes. He would win one other Illinois PGA, a Pins planted in the bunkers – almost? games so well and we’re so good about communicating with and Avery 4 and 3, giving Shepherd pair of Illinois Opens and a record six Illinois PGA Match Play titles for 10 it’s now been there, done that for Furtney after she and each other on the golf course. I think we’re one of the few state majors in all, second only to Mike Small’s 17 and Bill Ogden’s 12. time for a quick nap. future Duke teammate Erica Shepherd collaborated to cap- teams who didn’t use caddies this week. You couldn’t miss Harris on this day. He wore a yellow shirt, match- “We wanted to be aggressive the ing pants, and was carrying an orange putter down most every fairway, entire time, so just to start off and take especially in the afternoon, when he missed only one green, and saved advantage of how we refocused. We par on that hole. His other color: green, as in the $500 first prize. did that great, and Megan drained that’s likely gone, but 60 years on, his record 62 still holds pride of some birdies early,” Shepherd said. place in the Illinois PGA. – Tim Cronin teamwork, they call it. Furtney and Shepherd, who will be teammates the next four years, lived it for a week in Jacksonville. “I think if one of us isn’t having our best ball striking day, just to be there for mental and emotional support for your partner and be on the greens with them and tell them that they got it before every shot, I think that that can be just as helpful as sticking it inside ten feet,” Shepherd said. look out, Atlantic Coast Conference. These two ladies have it figured out.

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14 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com May 2019 15 Human Nature Sensitivity to the Environment Abounds in Golf By Neal Kotlarek

Ask golfers why they relish the game, and at least a part of the responses will include the magical intersection of nature and the environment. Who among us hasn’t stopped mid-round to exalt in the flora and fauna that envelop holes built away from the clubhouse parking lot and through dense forests or across wetlands? There’s no denying that a great deal of science goes into the integration of golf and nature. While some of this work – specifically on environmentally sensitive areas of a project – involves oversight by regulatory agencies, other aspects are left up to golf course developers seeking to optimize the golfing experience by reducing their work’s impact on indigenous plants and wildlife. While critics rightly bring up concerns about herbicides, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, golf course owners, managers, and superintendents bring up successes in stormwater management and providing desirable habitats for various land course. We looked at the out-of-play areas and aquatic animals. and determined that we would invite nature The folks who manage Coyote Run Coyote Run was built into the scheme with things like flower beds Golf Course in Flossmoor are so driven and perennial gardens using native plants.” to environmental awareness that they on the grounds of an In 1999, the Homewood-Flossmoor regularly run “Prairie at Night” events on old course. We looked Park District was provided $14 million course premises. Golf superintendent Dave in taxpayer funds on a “Keep it Green” Ward provides walking tours to introduce at the out of play areas referendum. This fund was partially used for golfers and nature lovers to the landscaping land acquisition that included Cherry Hills techniques used to plant native grasses and and determined that we Country Club, purchased in March 2003. flowers across the property. would invite nature into Thirteen months later, Ward left Olympia “I got interested in (sustainable Fields and a staff of over 50 to oversee the landscaping) in the late 1980s,” said Ward, the scheme with things development of a municipal project with a widely considered one of the nation’s team of 12. Coyote Run, designed by Greg preeminent golf superintendents, and the like flower beds and Martin, was constructed on the Cherry Hills grounds boss at Olympia Fields Country perennial gardens using site in 2004 and opened for play in 2005 Club during the 2003 U.S. Open. “Coyote with the express goal of maintaining the golf Run was built on the grounds of an old native plants. course in an environmentally sensitive way.

16 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com May 2019 17 Among the initiatives in the course’s environmental mission are: conservation of scarce natural resources; use of organic fertilizers, flood mitigation through retention of rainwater from the golf course and surrounding neighborhoods; minimal pesticide use; preservation of natural ecosystems; a bio-solid organic fertility program; and equipment wash water recycling. Even the course’s clubhouse grill has green initiatives, specifically: paper straw use only, biodegradeable cutlery, and kitchen scrap compost. Perhaps the most delightful initiative undertaken by Ward and his staff is participation in the Audubon International “Monarchs in the Rough” program. By undertaking habitat restoration projects in out- of-play areas, golf courses can provide much needed habitat for the iconic monarch butterfly population. Coyote Run plants five different species of milkweed – the plant of choice for egg-laying monarchs. “We had a really good summer for monarchs,” Ward said. “Golfers and our staff saw more monarchs flying about the area this summer over many smmers past.” A few miles north in Chicago, Harborside International is undisputedly an environmental success, as its 428 acres – once literally a city blight – was turned into property that thrives with wildlife and humanity. Formerly a dump used for disposal of municipal solid waste, incinerator ash, and wastewater sludge, the land was transformed into a 36-hole championship golf complex and practice facility through the engineering wizardry of the late golf designer Dick Nugent. Perhaps the most The work, completed in 1995, included the moving of three million yards of dirt and the introduction of three million cubic delightful initiative is yards of fill, seal, and topsoil. The clay material was dredged from adjoining Lake Calumet, which also resulted in the creation of a participation in the boat marina. Concrete from the concrete rubble inside the landfill Audubon International was recycled for application in roadways, cart paths, embankment erosion control, and building foundations. “Monarchs in the The end result of this land rejuvenation was two magnificent courses – the Port and the Starboard – built on top of the dump and Rough” program. By its impervious clay seal. As tree roots would obviously break through undertaking habitat this seal, the courses maintain a decidedly Scottish seaside look to them. That look is enhanced by large stretches of decorative fescue restoration projects, grasses which separate many holes and serve to tighten many tee shot landing areas. Winds also play a role in adding challenge to the golf courses can provide course, a reason Nugent designed fairways 50 percent wider than much needed habitat standard. The complex is also among the highest points in the city due to the mountain of waste contained in the landfill. for the iconic monarch In 1996, the American Academy of Environmental Engineering cited Harborside International with its top award for Superior Achievement for butterfly population.

continued on page 24 destinations A Dueling Dual on The Loop Neal Kotlarek

he scene is burned into every movie Throughout the season, this Tom player grasps the golf course’s character The end result is a single course with the course gets reset as Black for the The Loop courses complement the Tfan’s brain. There, leaning against a Doak-designed golf course is set up to play immediately on the first fairway as the 85 acres of fairway (at least twice the aver- afternoon 18. First time players to The stunning Forest Dunes course to create one dusty old station wagon, is the city slicker counter-clockwise (Red Course) one day green on this 375-yard hole tilts dramatically age) and versatile green complexes which Loop will be surprised at being served an of the finest golf complexes in the Midwest. plunking out a few tentative notes on his and is rearranged to play clockwise (Black from the right side into a hollow on the presented themselves so uniquely from entirely different look on No. 1 than they Celebrated as a true “golfers’ golf destination,” folk guitar. Across the way sitting on a porch Course) the next. The obvious result of this left side. Once on the green, I marveled my morning round that I felt compelled to experienced on that same fairway just an the club features great food, lodging, and swing, is a second musician repeating the transition schedule is that guests wishing at the subtle undulations that make every verify on the scorecard that I was playing hour or so previously. Winds that might hospitality but no pools or spa amenities. guitarist’s notes on his own instrument. to experience both layouts need 24 hours putting surface across the course a thrilling them a second time in the afternoon. have been at their back on 18 are now in Head PGA professional Elliott Oscar stated Before two long, the two performers unite to complete the journey. Due, however, to adventure. Place your approach shot on the For instance, the classic Biarritz green their faces. that Forest Dunes’ culture focuses on golf in a rollicking song that has everyone in the the quirks of the spring/summer calendar, wrong side of any hole and be prepared on the Black’s No. 16 features small front Played as a walking course over the and the bonds of friendship. “We like to think back yard dancing and clapping. The song three months per season enjoy a 31st day. for some putts to break five or even ten and back plateaus divided by a deep swale. first two years, The Loop will in 2019 offer that a visit to our club is almost a spiritual they played became known as “Dueling On these “bonus” days in May, July and feet toward the hole. When that same green is played on the Red, electric carts to all who need them. I per- experience,” Oscar said during an interview Banjos” from the dramatic 1972 canoe-trip August, Forest Dunes treats 64 players to Doak was inspired by The Old Course the swale is lateral and thus is no where sonally recommend walking the course as at the Chicago Golf Show in late February. film Deliverance. a virtual Golfapalooza in The Dual. The at St. Andrews, where he toiled as a caddie near as intimidating a putting adventure. the relatively flat terrain makes for little “Our guests come here to commune with Three times annually, Forest Dunes Black Course is set up for morning rounds as part of his architectural education, and From the back tees, the Black course strain. Add the fact that the massive putting nature and to get away from urban life and Golf Club in Roscommon, Mich., hosts a and switched to the Red Course for after- was played in reverse regularly through the plays to 6,704 yards while its counterpart surfaces call for longer walks from carts to all other distractions. They tend to leave duel of a different sort. Instead of guitars noon rounds. Played in a bestball format 1800s. (Tee shots on No. 1 played to the plays to 6,805 yards, running roughly coun- pin positions. with relaxed smiles on their faces and with and banjos, this duel involves 14 golf clubs with two-person teams, The Dual allows famed 17th green, and so on.) Doak had tercockwise around the property. In either While our duel at The Dual put my great stories to share with others.” and a pair of nationally renowned 18-hole golfers remarkable insights on the design mused for years about bringing the concept direction, much of the course plays shorter twosome in the top ten but out of the Deadlines to participate in any of the golf courses: the Red Course and the Black strategy Doak had to employ to create his to America. He found the perfect property due to fescue fairways grasses which allow awards ceremony, cold drinks and great 2019 season’s three Dual at The Loop events Course. What makes these events unique reversible course. just outside of Roscommon on land adjacent tee shots to get extra kick and roll. While food served after the event helped us quickly are May 15, July 15, and August 15. Interested is that these two courses are on the same My Dual at The Loop experience was to the acclaimed Tom Weiskopf-designed those seem like modest distances compared forget the missed putts and off-center tee golfers are urged to register early as only 1,300-acre property and play to the same enhanced by having a partner who had Forest Dunes course. As only 18 greens were to other new courses which play to nearly shots from the day’s adventure. The Forest 64 duelers at The Dual can participate. greens. In fact, this duel is called The Dual played both the Red and Black courses built for the course, cleared level terrain was 8,000 yards, The Loop’s swooping bentgrass Dunes staff takes great pride in recognizing in homophonic tribute to the reversible multiple times prior to the event. Even required to allow for entrance areas from greens make the challenge less about the all participants in The Dual with names of For more information: course known as The Loop and referenced with that experience under our belts, we both forward and backward angles. Likewise, tee game and more about accuracy toward each player hand-etched into special bag The Loop at Forest Dunes by architect critic Bradley Klein as “the most chose to employ a Forest Dunes caddie at greens couldn’t be conventionally sloped the correct sides of each pin placement. tags issued for the event. Plaques of all 6376 Forest Dunes Dr., Roscommon, Mich. interesting large-scale experiment in modern the event who helped us immensely with back to front so were gradually domed and In the Dual event, all 32 twosomes Dual participants are also created to hang (989) 275-0700 course design.” sage advice on distances and on putts. The given side slopes. finish their rounds and enjoy lunch while in the clubhouse for posterity. www.forestdunesgolf.com

20 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com May 2019 21 The GOLFChicago Interview

1. How long have you been playing golf? atrick Mannelly toiled 16 seasons with P I picked up a club as a youngster the Chicago Bears, albeit rather quietly, as with my grandfather and he would a pure specialist – a long snapper. He stayed get me lessons when I would go visit under the radar which was a good thing, him. From then on I played about meaning he made very few mistakes. In fact, once or twice a year. I really picked he holds the storied organization’s record for up the game once I got to Chicago games played at 245. and played with guys on the Bears. During his tenure in the NFL he fell in 2. What former Bears do you love with our little four-letter word. Yes, we play golf with? are talking about the game of golf. After he I play with Olin Kreutz the most during the golf season. I will get a retired in 2014, he’s gone full bore on what few rounds in with Robbie Gould. he likes to call “a golf problem.” He’s teed it The last few years he has been away up with a wide array of people, including a during the golf season with whatever number of former Bears. Among those are his team he is on. I will also play one good friend Robbie Gould, for whom he was or two rounds with former Bears the snapper for Gould’s entire Chicago career. tight end Jim Thornton and current He plays out of Ivanhoe Golf Club near Patrick cornerback Kyle Fuller. I took a golf Mundelein to a salty index of 2.5. trip with my former special-teamer Earlier this year it was announced that the in punter Brad Maynard this winter. Patrick Mannelly Award will be given out in Also, I play in a few charity outings college football for long snappers. It was a Mannelly with some of the old Bears. 3. Did you play during the NFL bit overdue for these specialists to get proper season? recognition. The long snapper is a pivotal part Heck yes, I played during the season. of the game, and those individuals who excel by Dave Lockhart Being a long snapper you do not take at this craft should be awarded. Thus, the the punishment guys take on Sunday Patrick Mannelly Award will now be spoken so I would head out to Sunset Ridge in the same breath as the Dick Butkus Award and play with the caddie master, Greg for the nation’s best collegiate linebacker Kunkel. I would also try to sneak and the Davey O’Brien Award for the best out on Fridays and play a few holes quarterback. after our shorter practice day. During Mannelly has stayed relevant in football by training camp I would make a few of delivering insightful contributions on WSCR my teammates mad and play a round in between two-a-day practices at Radio during Bears season. He is also the Kankakee Country Club. host of the award-winning Golf360 TV show 4. Are you just as competitive on NBC Sports Chicago – the season premiere about golf as you were about is June 9 after the Cubs-Cardinals game. football? Recently our Dave Lockhart, who produces One-hundred percent. I just love to Golf360, caught up to this professed golf compete. I hate losing but get over junkie to ask him 10 questions. continued on page 30 22 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com May 2019 23 Human Nature Shepherd's Shiloh Park Highway 173 continued from page 18 Crook GC GC GOLFChicago stormwater management and water quality no hunting is allowed and only invasive Highway 83 for Salt Creek and enhanced the habitat weed species are managed.” Directory Excellence in Environmental Engineering. for the property’s fish and wildlife, while Wild Rock’s spectacular 15th hole crosses Highway 12 Besides hosting two courses perennially at the same time improving the quality a quarry. Or, what had been a quarry. Golf Facilities of Interest ranked among the top 10 in the metro of the golf experience. The former home “Like with any area where man elim- Highway 59 to Every Golfer area, the complex is also home to a 58-acre to 27 golf holes, the property was recon- inates influence, nature returns quickly,” Highway 120 Make sure when Highway 134 Village practice facility, touted as the largest driv- figured to support the detention of 20 Blazich said. “The quarry hole is no dif- Green GC you play a course Butterfield ing range and practice facility in Northern million gallons of stormwater from the ferent. During construction of hole 15, Stonewall Winchester from our directory Orchard GC Illinois. The course’s golf center also hosts creek. Twenty-five acres of the 288-acre we took great care to limit our impact. that you mention Highway 176 Highway 31 Highway 176 Lake Bluff Highway 83 you saw it in the youth golfers 7–17 who participate in the property was converted to new wetlands. Our goal was to fit the hole to the land GC acclaimed The First Tee of Greater Chicago Forty-three acres of riparian habitat were provided so nature and the area wildlife GOLFChicago Crystal Lake Rd Rawson Bridge Road Roberts Road Course Directory. Highway 12 Rand Road life skills experience classes. also built and 13 acres of the Salt Creek would remain as a part of that area. Highway 22 Half Day Road Another prominent environmental corridor were restored to improve water “Once completed, wildlife returned Randall Road benefit of Harborside International is quality and plant and animal diversity. and now flourishes in that area. Today our Lake Cook Road

stormwater retention. In fact, one of The results of the work are, in a word, challenge, because we limit golfer access Highway 47 the important roles all urban-area golf spectacular. The course received wide to the quarry, is maintaining sight lines Highway 66 Dundee Road Sportsman’s Chicago CC Executive Milwaukee Road courses play is to accept, retain, and acclaim from both local and national media. to the green as trees tend to grow which Glenview Airport Sheridan Road Whisper National Creek GC Nine GC absorb rainwater. It is generally accepted Ron Whitten of Golf Digest pronounced reduces visual appeal and shot value of Highway 72 Highway 12 Rand Road Rob Roy The Glen that 20 percent of the country’s 17,000 the Preserve at Oak Meadows “might the hole.” Highway 31 GC Club Euclid Shermer golf courses are used for stormwater and be the most important new golf course Both wildlife and the native plants are Randall Road Higgins Road Highland Woods GC Glenview water quality treatment. The roofs, paved of 2017” due to the role in community taken into consideration when caring for the Park GC Highway 25 Bridges At streets and parking lots in urban areas improvement. The magazine presented golf course, Blazich explained. “It started Highway 59 Poplar Creek Golf Road McLean Boulevard G & CC Chick Evans Weber which hold and redirect storm runoff the course its Green Star award given to with Hurdzan and Fry creating numerous GC Park GC Highlands Tam O’Shanter Touhy Avenue necessarily stress sewer systems. golf facilities that “demonstrate the best routing ideas to help minimize the dis- Lake Street / Route 20 GC Robert Black Bowes Road of Elgin Highway 19 / Irving Park Road GC

Woodale Road Edgebrook According to some studies, storm- in sustainable, efficient, and innovative turbance to the natural topography but Bowes Eaglewood Resort GC Billy Caldwell Creek CC GC Sidney water contributes as much as 30 percent environmental practices that every golf still create awe inspiring views on almost O’Hare Marovitz GC International Airport of the pollution issues in lakes, streams facility could emulate.” every tee box,” Blazich said. “We focused Orchard Road

Randall Road Maple Harlem Avenue / Highway 43 ,and estuaries. To offset at least a portion Environmental sensitivity by golf on selecting disease resistant grass for tee Meadows GC Indian Boundary GC Oak of that burden, communities including course owners isn’t restricted to the boxes, fairways, and greens that require St. Andrews Meadows GC DuPage Diversey Highway 59 G & CC Airport Range

Links & Tees Mannheim Road Highway 12/20 Highland Park (Sunset Valley), Addison Chicago area, of course. In Wisconsin, less fertilizer and maintenance; using fes- Highway 53

GC Sheridan Road Lake Street / Route 20 (The Preserve at Oak Meadows), Arlington Sand Valley, the Mike Keiser-owned cue grass to large areas of meadow that Highway 38High Heights (The Bridges of Poplar Creek), and getaway near Nekoosa in the center of do not affect play and create the perfect Columbus Park GC Glenview (Glenview Park) rely on municipal the state – and the middle of nowhere habitat for animals and birds; and creating Roosevelt Road Roosevelt Road

several water features throughout the Highway 25 Fresh golf courses to serve to both detain and – has turned back the clock, decades of Randall Road Meadow GC retain runoff. timber growth removed to reveal the property. The plants and animals which Cantigny Oak Brook 22nd Street GC Highway 56 GC

When it was reintroduced to the public original glacier-created sand dunes on reside here are the beneficiaries of all 31st Street

Highway 47 Arrowhead Meadow these important early decisions. Since the GC Lark GC three years ago, Glenview Park in Glenview which multiple courses have been laid. Wolf Road Jackson was hailed by golf writers for its improved And a large portion of those 1,700 acres completion of construction in the fall of Marquette Park GC Orchard Park GC Highway 31 playability, its attractive bunkering, and its of former pulp tree stands will now sit 2007, we have maintained environmentally Valley GC Harlem Avenue / Highway 43 South Shore Flagg GC Creek GC Midway Seven Airport contoured greens. Overlooked in many of fallow, allowing nature to retake them. sound maintenance practices and always New York Street Bridges GC Aurora / 75th Street Sugar Grove those reviews was the meticulous engineer- A little over an hour south of Sand make calculated decisions to reduce our Airport

Plainfield / Naperville Road Village Zigfield ing work performed by Libertyville-based Valley, Wild Rock Golf Club at Wilderness impact.” 83rd St Greens GC Troy GC Highway 59

Highway 34 / Ogden Avenue Highway 53 Springbrook Harborside Jacobsen Golf Course Design on rainwater Resort in the Wisconsin Dells was All this has been highlighted by the Fox Bend GC 111th Street International GC GC diversion. The master plan for the golf carefully crafted by renowned design recent opening of a trail to show off the Blackberry Boughton Waters Edge Oaks GC Naperbrook Ridge GC 90 GC GC McCarthy Road

course renovation project developed by team Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry, beauty of the property. It’s obvious to the 111th Street Highway 6 State Street the firm made the golf course the key who wove holes between trees, around golfers as well. Bolingbrook Ruffled Feathers GC Joe Lewis GC GC Highway 25 135th Street flood mitigation resource. The end result wetlands, over ponds, and even across “During a round of golf don’t be Halstead Street / Highway 1 82nd Avenue 143rd Street 147th Street is a course that is beautiful, fun and an an abandoned quarry. surprised when you see whitetail deer, Renwick Road Burnham

Lemont Silver Woods GC ecological asset to the city. “The famous sandstone of the Dells red fox, turkeys and the occasional eagle,” All information in this directory is Mistwood Lake CC provided by participating courses. GC Cicero Blazich said. “In addition, Monarch butter- 151st Street In the west suburban city of Addison, is not part of our landscape here on Wild GOLFChicago is not responsible or 159th Street River Oaks Lockport Street Highway 53

LaGrange Road Highway 45 GC liable for errors or incorrect information. Highway 59 Martin, he of Coyote Run’s success, was Rock property,” superintendent Michael J. flies are prevalent thanks to the healthy Archer Avenue George Dunne Weber Road Map © CopyrightHighway 47 2019 GOLFChicago National GC presented a daunting challenge by the Blazich said. “It is nearby and all around population of milkweed throughout the Magazine. All rights reserved. Ravisloe Glenwoodie Forest Preserve District of DuPage County: but specifically the golf course land is a property’s fescue areas, and several spe- CC GC Gouger 183rd Street thoughtfully integrate environmental glacial till and the beautiful topography of cies of migratory birds which utilize our Course Managers: benefit with a championship golf course the golf course is known as ‘end moraines’ water features. The most interesting was For inclusion in this directory, or to update your listing, please call Flossmor that could withstand significant flooding where the glaciers in this area stopped. As a black swan which took up residence for Highway 52 / Jefferson Street 815.741.8005 or email us at Lincoln Highway Highway 30 events. After an arduous approval process far as flora and fauna they are comprised a few days in the four-acre pond along [email protected] Harlem Avenue / Highway 43 by various agencies, the Preserve at Oak mostly of what is typical in Wisconsin. The our fourth hole. We were hoping he/she Meadows underwent a two-year environ- difference is on the golf course the wildlife would stay to help control the resident mental restoration project that improved is protected in a virtual sanctuary where goose population, but no such luck.” Heritage Bluffs GC Balmoral 24 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com Morris May 2019Woods CC 25 CC Highway 6 Arrowhead Balmoral Woods Golf Blackberry Oaks Bowes Creek Maple Meadows The Preserve at Forest Preserve Golf Fox Bend Golf Course 630-653-5800 Club Golf Course Country Club Golf Club Oak Meadows Courses | Cook County 630-554-3939 26W151 Butterfield Rd. 708-672-7448 630-553-7170 847-214-5880 630-616-8424 630-595-0071 800-460-0010 3516 Route 34 Wheaton, IL 60189 26732 S. Balmoral Woods 2245 Kennedy Rd. 1250 Bowes Creek Blvd. 272 Addison Rd. 900 N. Wood Dale Rd. forestpreservegolf.com Oswego, IL 60543 arrowheadgolfclub.org Dr. Bristol, IL 60512 Elgin, Illinois 60124 Wood Dale, IL 60191 Addison, IL 60101 Affordable GOLF. Friendly www.foxbendgolfcourse.com Crete, IL 60417 Arrowhead Golf Club is www.blackberryoaks.com bowescreekcc.com DuPageGolf.com DuPageGolf.com SERVICE. Fantastic Fox Bend is Oswego’s own recognized for its beautifully www.balmoralwoods.com Located just forty minutes Ranked as Golfweek’s Best After extensive renovations, EXPERIENCE. welcoming and challenging Maple Meadow’s Forest Preserve Golf maintained course and A fun public golf course west of Chicago, Blackberry Courses You Can Play, Championship “West 18” the 288-acre The Preserve public course. This 18-hole, inviting atmosphere. on IL-394 in Crete 40 Oaks Golf Course was Bowes Creek Country Club at Oak Meadows is a offers something for every par-72 course boasts plush features a modern prairie golfer. PLUS … save EVERY Arrowhead is a public minutes south of Chicago. built to blend and enhance gives you every option to design, and is honored to new world-class 18-hole fairways, mature trees, and course which offers The 18-hole course with a the natural assets of the play your ideal round of course, practice facility, DAY with the FPG Golf and challenging greens. With be a qualifying site for the Rewards Card! impeccable golfing driving range is spread out property, such as Blackberry golf. Along with annual Illinois Open and the host and environmental haven— 34 well-positioned bunkers conditions at affordable over undulating terrain and Creek, the wetlands, the memberships, we offer a course for the DuPage designed by golf architect • Billy Caldwell: 9 Holes and water coming into play rates on three separate features a number of holes prairie lands, and mature “member-for-a-day” pass, Junior Classic. Greg Martin. • Burnham Woods: 18 Holes on 11 holes, the course par 72 18-hole layouts with mature oak trees. oak groves. Blackberry Oaks allowing you the privilege tests skills of all levels. Choose from four sets of • Golf Digest Green Star • Chick Evans: 18 Holes surrounded by forest Also the annual home to is a true “Link with Nature.” to play unlimited golf with tees and enjoy immaculate Award Winner USFGA FootGolf is also • Edgebrook: 18 Holes preserve. The West, East, the Will County Amateur in Blackberry Oaks Golf cart as well as full use bent grass fairways and • Golf Inc. Renovation of available on select days. and South Courses feature the Spring. A “must play” Course features 18 holes of the practice facility. If greens. the Year • George Dunne National: Enjoy a drink or dinner on new bunker renovations and course on the south side of golf, a practice range, playing a quick round of Maple Meadows’ 18 Holes the deck overlooking the enhancements. The practice and a great venue for your an exceptional junior golf nine or eighteen holes suits • Golf Digest Best Courses scenic course at Pearce’s convenient location features You Can Play • Harry Semrow: Driving area includes a lighted next event or function. academy, and a fantastic your game better, we offer easy access from O’Hare, Range & Mini Golf restaurant, or book the driving range, putting green, Book tee times online or restaurant. Please visit that as well. Bowes Creek I-290, I-355, I-294, and • ASGCA Design Pavilion for your next and chipping green. Group check out other information allows the public golfer Excellence Award • Highland Woods: outing or special event. www.blackberryoaks.com Route 83. 18 Holes and individual golf lessons about the property at www. to learn more and to reserve to experience the private The Preserve’s location Take advantage of tee time Find our best specials and • Indian Boundary: 18 Holes are available. balmoralwoods.com. a tee time. club, without an annual promotions only on www. features easy access from specials and book online. Home of the Blackberry membership. DuPageGolf.com. O’Hare, I-290, I-355, I-294, • Joe Louis: 18 Holes Amateur, the premier and Route 83. • Meadowlark: 9 Holes Midwest amateur golf For news and tee times • River Oaks: 18 Holes event. visit DuPageGolf.com www.blackberryamateur.com

Cantigny Golf Chicago Park District Coyote Run Green Meadows The Glen Club Glenview Park Glenview Prairie Club Glenwoodie Golf Club Golf Club 630-668-8463 Golf Golf Course Golf Club 847-724-7272 847-657-1637 708-758-1212 847-724-0250 27w270 Mack Rd. 312-245-0909 708-957-8700 630-810-5330 2901 W. Lake Ave. 2800 W. Lake Ave. 19301 S State St. Shermer Rd. Wheaton, IL 60189 cpdgolf.com 800 Kedzie Ave. 18 W. 201 W. 63rd St. Glenview, IL 60026 Glenview, IL 60026 Glenwood, IL 60425 Glenview, IL 60025 cantignygolf.com Great Golf in the Heart of Flossmoor, IL 60422 Westmont, IL 60559 theglenclub.com golfglenview.com glenwoodiegolf.com/ golfglenview.com Designed by Roger Packard, the City. www.coyoterungolf.com DuPageGolf.com Chicago’s finest semi- • Meticulous conditions Glenwoodie, just 25 minutes Cantigny is both challenging With six courses, three Coyote Run, which opened Green Meadows is a fun private golf experience. Experience pure golfing like no other 9-hole from Chicago, has been and breathtakingly scenic. driving ranges, and two in 2005, sits on the former nine-hole gem that offers The Glen Club is a enjoyment at the Glenview course a favorite championship miniature golf courses, stunning Tom Fazio Park Golf Club. After a Cantigny Golf’s Red site of Cherry Hills. It quality conditions in a • Affordable Rates. course for serious and Oak Club loyalty program there’s golf enjoyment for has been completely traditional parkland setting. designed championship complete renovation in recreational golfers in rewards customers with the whole family. redesigned by Greg Martin. Featuring three par 4s course located on the 2014-2015, the course has • 4 sets of tees to meet all Chicago and Northwest free golf and other benefits. A hidden gem in the and six par 3s, the Green former site of the historic re-opened to rave reviews. skill levels Indiana for over 90 years. The Young Executive PLUS…save EVERY DAY, southern suburbs, Coyote Meadows layout is the Glenview Naval Air Station. Bent grass from tee to • 90 minute pace of play Consistently ranked in the Program offers reduced secure early tee time access Run’s course conditions perfect blend of challenge, In the heart of a 195-acre green, rolling fairways, and for a quick 9 top 35 public courses, the green fees for golfers 39 and more with the CPD rival that of the best country enjoyment, and value for all refuge, The Glen Club meticulous landscapes • Challenging, fun, and 18-hole, par-72, 6902-yard and under. Players Advantage Card! clubs in the area. Only 20 skill levels! features rolling terrain, await you on this 18-hole, enjoyable for all. course features bent-grass Cantigny’s 27 holes are • Robert A. Black: 9 Holes minutes from Chicago, Senior discounts are dramatic elevation changes, 6,133 yard par-70 course. After your round stop fairways and large rolling ideal for outings ranging • Sydney R. Marovitz: Coyote Run is conveniently available every day, and tranquil lakes, and striking The Glenview Park Golf in for a cold beverage in greens surrounded by from 16 to 220 golfers. The 9 Holes accessed from I-80, I-294 DuPage Golf Discount vistas. Club offers the amenities of our beautiful clubhouse groves of majestic oaks. a private club, but is open course employs a full-time • Jackson Park: 18 Holes and I-57. Great senior Card holders save on every Enjoy the grand 48,000 setting overlooking the 9th • 14,000 sq. ft. Clubhouse square-foot clubhouse, to the public and close to golf-event coordinator to • Columbus Park: 9 Holes rates are available Monday round. green. Craft Beers, Fine and Community Center ensure an exceptional through Friday. Visit www. Look for Green Meadows superb dining, 21 overnight home. Wines sport and soft drinks with Fully Stocked Golf experience for planners and • Marquette Park: 9 Holes coyoterungolf.com for the behind the Westmont water guest rooms, a grand Golf Inc. magazine voted available. Shop guests. • South Shore: 9 Holes best rates available. tower on 63rd St. ballroom, and the finest in the Glenview Park Golf Make Glenview Prairie Club the Best Renovation • Full Service Bar and Grille, In 2019, for the fifth • Diversey Range Find our best specials and corporate amenities and Club your home club for a and Outdoor Patio time, Cantigny will host promotions only on www. membership. of the Year in 2016. Come premier 9-hole experience! The only double-deck out to see what everyone • Electric Cart Fleet the Illinois State Amateur range in Chicago. DuPageGolf.com. Championship (July 16-18). is talking about. Host of the • Lighted Practice Range/ USGA - 2017 U.S. Women’s PGA Professional Staff Amateur Four-Ball Qualifier. 26 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com May 2019 27 Golf Center Harborside Heritage Bluffs The Highlands of Elgin Ravisloe Country Club St. Andrews Golf & Springbrook Stonewall Orchard Des Plaines International G.C. Public Golf Club 847-931-5950 708-798-5600 Country Club Golf Course 847-740-4890 847-803-GOLF 312-782-7837 815-467-7888 875 Sports Way 18231 Park Ave, 630-231-3100 630-848-5060 25675 West Highway 60 353 N River Rd. 11001 S. Doty Ave. East 24355 W. Bluff Rd. Elgin, IL 60123 Homewood, IL 60430 2241 Route 59 2220 W. 83rd St. Grayslake, IL 60030 Des Plaines, IL 60016 Chicago, IL 60628 Channahon, IL 60410 highlandsofelgin.com ravisloe.com West Chicago, IL 60185 Naperville, IL 60564 stonewallorchard.com GolfCenterDesPlaines.com harborsidegolf.com heritagebluffs.com The Highlands of Elgin Ravisloe Country Club standrewsgc.com golfnaperville.org Cutting through hundred- Located just south of the 18 Holes: Par 72 has become a premier has been one of the most 36 Holes: Springbrook Golf Course year old oak and pine trees, 9 Holes: Par 27 acclaimed golf courses Yardage: 80 - 210 loop in the City of Chicago, Yardage: 5,035- 7,171 destination for thousands Course #1: par 71, commands some of the Stonewall Orchard Golf Club Harborside features two Located near the of golfers throughout the in Chicagoland since 5116 - 6920 yards finest views of Naperville’s has quickly become one Chicagoland’s only fully- championship-style links region. Nine new holes its inception. Bearing Course #2: par 72, open space and trails. of Chicago’s most prolific lighted 9-hole course is intersection of Interstates courses designed by 80 and 55 just south of reclaim an old stone the signature of world- 5341 - 6818 yards The facility features a public golf courses. open late year-round, and renowned architect Dick quarry, and take maximum renowned course designer Since 1926, golfers have challenging, parkland-style Since opening in 1999, until midnight May–Fall. The Joliet, Heritage Bluffs is Nugent. the pride of the Channahon advantage of the unique Donald Ross, it has sought out St. Andrews championship course, a the Arthur Hills-designed 80-bay lighted and heated Harborside is home to and dramatic landforms that played host to many great for its two championship recently renovated practice gem located in northwest Driving Range is one of Park District. The tranquil Chicago’s largest practice surroundings make a day were left behind, including golfers and features rolling courses. With its vast facility with a one-acre turf suburban Grayslake has the Top 50 Ranges in the facility, a prairie-style a twelve-acre quarry lake. mounds, deep bunkers and rolling terrain and mature practice tee, a large practice served as Final Stage country: automatic ball tee- playing golf fun and relaxing. clubhouse, and The Pier at Along with our award- Four holes hug the top of challenging greens. Located trees, St. Andrews offers a putting green, and two Qualifying site for the U.S. up, 300-yard outdoor landing Harborside restaurant. the bluff thirty to forty feet just 25 minutes from high-quality golf experience short-game practice greens Open, and currently sits in area, plus 11 grass tees. The winning course we also Harborside’s Port and feature a large all-grass above the water, providing Chicago, 10 miles from for players, golf outings, with bunkers. Golfers of rotation with Olympia Fields 1-1/2 acre Short Game Area Starboard courses rank golfers with incredible the Indiana state line and leagues, and permanent all skill levels return time and Medinah Country Club features three sand bunkers practice range along with annually among the a large putting green and a views and numerous shot across the street from the tee-times. Guests will also and again to play. Enjoy as host site for the Illinois and multiple putting greens; Midwest’s list of best options on each hole. The Homewood Metra Station, enjoy the award-winning post-game refreshments PGA Section Championship you can practice chip shots separate chipping green and courses you can play. bunker. After your round you prairie-style clubhouse Ravisloe is your one stop 32-acre Practice Center with on the expansive patio held every Fall. from up to 60 yards out. features an expanded golf destination. Wine-Dine- premium range balls and with great views of the Unlimited Memberships are can relax in our Grille Room or out on the patio, enjoying shop, locker rooms, event Stay-Play with Ravisloe, La 10 heated, sheltered hitting course. Springbrook also available for the Course and rooms, and a full-scale food Voûte Bistro and La Banque bays. Other amenities: golf offers lessons, outings, a Short Game, and the Driving a full menu of delicious food and beverage choices. and beverage operation. Hotel. carts with GPS, J.J.’s Bar well-stocked golf shop, and Range. Restaurant, Sports & Grill, exquisite lakeside more. Bar, Pro Shop, and GolfTec ceremony site, and live Lessons. entertainment.

Mistwood Golf Club Naperbrook Orchard Valley Golf PGA TOUR Superstore Tam O’Shanter Golf Water’s Edge Golf Weber Park Golf Whisper Creek Golf 815-254-3333 Golf Course Course 1017 Butterfield Rd. Course & Learning Course Course Course 1700 W. Renwick Rd. 630-378-4215 630-907-0500 Downers Grove, 60515 Center 708-671-1032 847-674-1500, ext. 3600 847-515-7680 Romeoville, IL 60446 22204 W. 111th St. / 2411 W. Illinois Ave. 1319 E. Golf Rd. 847-965-2344 7205 West 115th St. skokieparks.org 12840 Del Webb Blvd. mistwoodgc.com Hassert Blvd. Aurora, IL 60506 Schaumburg, 60173 6700 West Howard Street Worth, IL 60482 9 Holes: Par 27 Huntley,IL 60142 Mistwood Golf Club, Plainfield, IL 60585 orchardvalleygolf.com 295 Center Dr. Vernon Hills, Niles, IL 60714 watersedgegolf.com Yardage: 1,095 whispercreekgolf.com with its recent multi- golfnaperville.org 6th Best Public Course in 60061 golftam.com Rated Best Places To Play Located just twenty Luxury Golf at a Whisper of million dollar renovations Located in Plainfield, scenic Illinois by GOLF magazine. PGA TOUR Superstore One of the most important by Golf Digest. minutes north of Chicago a Price! and new state of the art Naperbrook Golf Course is One of Chicagoland’s best carries the largest selection courses in popularizing the Water’s Edge is Chicago’s on I-94, all ages will enjoy Whisper Creek Golf Club golf-learning center, has a “links style” course that public courses, Golf Digest of golf clubs, clothing, game of golf in America south side destination Skokie’s Weber Park Golf is a fair test for a gamut of become one of the premier features rolling hills and ranks Orchard Valley 4½ footwear, and accessories is located right here in course. This championship Course. This 9-hole, par-3 golfers. From beginners golf experiences in the wide fairways. Challenges Stars! A true championship for your game. With the Niles, Illinois. In 1953, 18-hole golf course offers golf course features bent to scratch golfers, anyone Chicagoland area in the way of ponds, a layout featuring wetlands, most advanced technology Tam O’Shanter Country bent grass greens and grass greens, beautiful who appreciates a day on Mistwood, host of the double green, and hidden lakes, roughs, water for club fitting, we also offer Club hosted the first-ever fairways, and a complete landscaping, and is ideal the course will come away Illinois Women’s Open, bunkers await golfers hazards, marshes, and the Fitting Van Experience nationally televised golf day/night practice and range for learning to play golf, feeling rewarded by a round features new Scottish-style of all levels. Additional more. which is a TOUR caliber tournament. facility, along with The Edge working on your short at Whisper Creek. stacked sod-wall bunkers, amenities include a ten-acre assessment. With three Today, a public 9-hole Bar & Grill for great meals game, or gathering a few which are not something driving range, separate PLUS…a program for Chicagoland locations, par-33 course remains, and daily specials. friends for a fun round of PLUS…a program for seen in traditional American lesson tee, and practice everyone! come see why nothing maintained with the FootGolf. everyone! golf. Other amenities putting greens. Enjoy • SAVE on every round compares to PGA TOUR goal of providing playing PLUS…a program for • SAVE on every round include a full-service pro post-game refreshments with the OV Rewards Superstore. conditions reminiscent of everyone! with the Whisper shop, golf instruction, and on the picturesque patio; PLUS program. those Hogan, Palmer, and • SAVE on every round Rewards PLUS program wonderful dining. Naperbrook also offers • UNLIMITED twilight golf Nicklaus enjoyed years with the Edge PLUS Pass • UNLIMITED twilight golf lessons, outings, a well- and range with the PPP ago. Swing out for a scenic • UNLIMITED twilight golf and range with the PDP • Golf Magazine’s “2013 stocked golf shop, and round and walk in the Best U.S. Renovation You card. and range with the Edge card much more. footsteps of legends at Tam Practice Club Can Play” • Annual Memberships O’Shanter! • Annual Memberships • Golf Range Association and MORE! Year-round instruction and MORE! of America “2013 Top 50 available! Golf Ranges.” 28 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com May 2019 29 Patrick Mannelly appreciation they deserve. continued from page 23 6. Do you take lessons? it quickly knowing I can get back I do work with an instructor his name out there and play again soon. It also is Kiel Alderink (he’s recognized as helps to go to the 19th hole for a large a Top Teacher Under 40 in America craft brew after a round! by Golf Digest). The past two years 5. Tell us about this new long are the first time I have stuck with a Where one great course leads to another snapper award that’s going to teacher. I have also done some work be given out in your name. How with the great Dr. Jim Suttie. proud are of this new honor? 7. What are the strengths of your It is always nice to be recognized, but game? the Mannelly Award is truly about Hmm, depends on the day. Ha ha! the young snappers. When I started But I think my consistency is the one. playing with the Bears in 1998 not all I can keep the ball in the ballpark 32 teams had a position designated and make a lot of pars. I usually to the long snapping position. A sprinkle in a birdie or two. It’s close to home... And, with 13 incredible courses at back up tight end, linebacker, or 8. Does being a former one unforgettable destination, it’s a golfing experience O-lineman did the job. Now all 32 professional athlete help you in you’ll treasure. You’ll spend less time traveling and more teams have a long snapper and that is any way on the course? time doing what you love to do... Playing tons of golf. all he does. Back in college in 2004 Yes it has helped me in pressure Come PLAY and STAY with us. Book your Golf Trail about one percent of colleges gave out situations: money games, club Getaway today. Visit GolfAtLakeOfTheOzarks.com. scholarships to a long snapper; now tournaments. I always look back at it is close to 80 percent. I love that some situations I have been in on the position is getting recognition, the field and just tell myself this is and college snappers have something just a recreational game, not the real to compete for and to get the thing. I love playing Scotch games! 9. What are your favorite golf destinations? My No. 1 is Bakers Bay in the Bahamas. And I was fortunate to take a trip to Southern Ireland with seven other buddies and play that circuit of courses. Old Head, Waterville, Doonbeg, Ballybunion, Lahinch, and Dukes. Bandon Dunes is right up there too! Bucket list? I think Augusta and Pine Valley are probably Join former Chicago Bear No. 1 and 2 on everyone’s list. I want to play the Pebble Beach circuit as Patrick Mannelly on the well. I am headed to Cabot Links award-winning GOLF360 TV later this summer and can’t wait to show on NBC Sports Chicago. see that course. 10. Why do you like hosting Go to linksvideo.net/golf360tv Golf360 TV on NBC Sports Chicago? for information and airdates. I enjoy golf so much – I love talking LIKE A LOCAL about it, being around it, and learning more about it. It’s also fun Lush fairways, immaculate greens and challenging approach shots make Greater to see different courses, check out Lansing a truly memorable Midwestern golf destination. 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onald Trump is not a laugh riot, Winged Foot, where he’s a member, the has been, because he needs to come s you enter Sonoma county from the a hint of lemon peel and thyme flavors in Dbut his golf exploits are, and Rick caddies came up with a nickname for out on top. Asouth on California 121, one of the first this medium-bodied, smooth, and rather Reilly concentrates on that part of the him: Pele. “It had to have started very early wineries you encounter is Cline Cellars, and soft-textured wine. 45th president’s life – controversial yet According to Reilly, who has both in his development,” Reilly quotes a there could hardly be a better introduction Excellent as a well-chilled aperitif, or essentially harmless – in Commander In played with Trump and talked to many Harvard psychiatrist who penned a book to the Carneros AVA. pair it with raw oysters, lobster Newburg, Cheat – How Golf Explains Trump, which who have, The Donald is a master of on Trump himself. Even as a young teenager, Fred Cline or planked salmon. lives up to both its title and subtitle. the hand wedge. Scooting ahead on When Reilly inked weekly essays for learned to make wine from his grand- 2017 Ancient Vines Zinfandel $20 We find that Trump not only used his golf cart – which he often drives on Sports Illustrated, and later fortnightly for father, Valeriano Jacuzzi (yes, he of the The grapes for this Zin were planted by the foot wedge as a 15th club when he the green, whether it’s his course or ESPN, he often tried too hard, turning hydrotherapy tub, as well as many other Italian and Portuguese immigrants in the was a mere private real-estate mogul, not – he’ll find his ball in a bunker that’s phrases the way a baker twisted pretzels. innovations). With a $9000 inheritance sandy, phylloxera-resistant soils of Oakley, he uses it now, presidential oath and all, shielded from the rest of the group. He’ll It was too much, too often. The bon from Valeriano, in 1981 Cline founded California, more than 100 years ago. and the Secret Service agents protect- walk into the pit with a club, waggle and mots crashed together like chocolates on the eponymous Cline Cellars in Oakley, Ancient, indeed. This dusty-ruby colored ing him do as well. They would take a take a swing, then walk to the hole and Lucy’s assembly line. But in Commander California. wine is lively and supple, with raspberry bullet for him, but don’t want to hear magically pull a ball out of the cup. The In Cheat, Reilly writes at a more languid The winery was relocated to its cur- and baked stone fruit aromas. Tart cherry the complaints from the boss if one of one he palmed in the bunker. pace. There’s plenty of the funny, but rent location in 1991. The property is the predominates on the medium-full body, his drives was found in the rough. At That maneuver plenty of facts and astute observations original site of the Mission San Francisco complemented by medium tannins, mod- can take strokes off as well. de Solano, the 21st and final of the historic erate vanilla oak, and just a hint of pepper. your handicap, though For instance, that Trump admitted California missions. Although the mission Serve this up with venison sausage and Trump takes care of that sales of cashmere and other goods was moved in 1823, the Cline tasting room smoked gouda pizza, Kentucky burgoo, that anyway. When at Trump Turnberry, as he rechristened is located in a rustic 1850s farmhouse that or barbequed duck. he posts a score – the famed Scottish resort, dropped is original to the property, surrounded by [email protected] he posted only 20 like lead weights when he ordered the spring-fed ponds and thousands of rose times in the seven original lighthouse logo dropped in bushes. The vineyards also reflect this years before the favor of the family crest and “Trump history, with vines ranging from 80 to 120 book went to press Turnberry” emblazoned on everything. years old. – he seems to put He read the bottom line and, wrote Reilly, Cline is one of the first of the pioneer- down whatever he “somebody convinced Trump to get rid ing Rhone Rangers, a group dedicated can get away with. of his logo and go back to the old one to wines from the grapes of the Côtes du He was listed as a without his name.” Sales rebounded. Rhône in France (ironic for a boy with an 2.8 at press time The Trump-monikered stuff? “It all hit Italian grandfather, no?) though everyone the clearance sale table,” an employee Cline also has been a pioneer in sus- he plays with thinks told Reilly. tainable farming. It is the second-largest he’s from an eight You don’t find that out unless you completely solar-powered winery in to a 10, which go there. Reilly did his diligence on this California. Natural cover crops are used is outstanding book, interviewing former employees of to nourish the soils, sheep and goats for someone 72 Trump courses, many who had teed it roam freely as they graze on weeds, and playing from the up with Trump before and after he was compost teas are used as fertilizer. “We’d white tees. But elected, and those who had interactions be considered ‘organic’ if we wanted to it’s not good with him in both the business and golf follow the rules of the government,“ said enough for him. realms. Cline. “We are actually more sustainable Why lie? Oh, and that family crest that came [than the law calls for] by not following Because he off the Turnberry goods? He stole it their organic rules.“ He calls his methods always has. from the family that built Mar-a-Lago, “beyond organic.” One need his winter and weekend hangout in Palm 2017 Ancient Vines Mourvèdre Rosé $18 only consult Beach. C’mon! Don’t be afraid! Summer’s here, and a newspaper Why are you not surprised? what could be better than rosé? There are or the eve- all kinds of dry, crisp expressions available, ning news to Commander In Cheat absolutely none like the dreaded cloying figure out he’s By Rick Reilly White Zinfandel of days gone by. This a world-class Hachette Books selection is an excellent place to start. prevaricator, 244 pages Fresh herb and strawberry aromas and always $28.00 are followed by tart watermelon and just 32 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com May 2019 33 final putt Bandon Dunes, Me, and Mr. G Neal Kotlarek

ew things in life are as raucously entertaining as immediately as we pulled into the parking lot Fa buddy movie. Indeed, it was impossible to take and gazed over the stunning Bandon Dunes golf one’s eyes off the screen when Robert Redford and landscape. Magnificent views of the Pacific Ocean Paul Newman teamed up in Butch Cassidy and The are available across many of the courses with some Sundance Kid and The Sting. Or when Jack Lemmon holes literally seaside. and Tony Curtis starred in the cross-dressing comedy Our caddies during the five-day junket congrat- Some Like it Hot. More recently, the brilliant casting ulated each of us on our good fortune to avoid rain of Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis in each and every day of play. The yin of the Bandon The Hangover movies made for lots of laughs and a Dunes yang, we learned quickly, is that at certain slew of unforgettable scenes involving house tigers, times of the year, no rain means plenty of wind. How Mike Tyson, and facial tattoos. much is plenty? While not enough to push balls off The reason all of these films work is the myste- the greens, thankfully, but enough to make putting riously powerful bond held between the characters into the wind and against it a true art in distance both when they are engaged in mindless banter and control. Virtually every shot taken during one of when they are – inevitably, in all such flicks – on the these days requires some additional calculations run either from the law or from the bad guys. for wind factors. While few of us are as dashing or witty as those While each of the four championship courses movie characters, golfers form unique and some- are celebrations of great golf architecture, our times magical bonds of their own during junkets and two favorites were the two courses on the water Golfers form unique bucket-list trips among friends. Somehow, someway, – the original Bandon Dunes course and the Tom the combination of golf, food, Doak-designed Pacific Dunes. cold beverages, and good friends Two consecutive holes on the and sometimes inevitably produces an intoxicating back nine – Nos. 10 and 11 – on amount of laughter, relaxation, and the Doak course may be the most long-lasting memories. gorgeous pair of par 3s in golf as magical bonds Over the years, I’ve had the their tees look out over the mighty privilege of attending a number of blue waters of the ocean. such golf sprees involving groups of In between occasional pars, during junkets and friends both large and small. While birdies, an eagle, and a slew of a few of those trips took place in unmentionables, our group com- famous golf destinations like Pebble muned with nature, our caddies, bucket-list trips Beach and Myrtle Beach, others and one another. Tim was far and transpired in slightly less renowned away the star of the foursome destinations like Augusta, Mich., and as he stayed near par on every among friends. Green Lake, Wis. The locale eventually seems to play a round. Mike and Stu and I didn’t play nearly as subordinate role to the quality of the golf experiences well as Tim but came to savor every hole that and the stories shared among the participants. didn’t involve a lost ball, a double bogey or yet My most recent buddy trip occurred last year another remarkable shot to the flagstick by Tim. at one of the most popular out-of-the-way golf Our final full day at Bandon Dunes was made destinations in America. Precisely two decades ago, even more memorable by a chance encounter with Oregon’s Bandon Dunes was introduced as a golf saxophone superstar Kenny G playing in the four- course of uncommon beauty located far, far away some behind ours. Following the round, someone from both the madding and unmadding crowds. A casually approached us and invited us to enjoy a little over 20 years ago, greeting card entrepreneur small reception in the clubhouse that evening. As Mike Keiser found a large swatch of coastland in a the sun set through the clubhouse window and the community known more for kite surfing than for golf. ocean glistened in the distance, we were treated to Since that time, the original Bandon Dunes course has the sweet sounds of Mr. G blowing tunes for just been joined by three other terrific courses along with a the 20 golfers in the room. Mike looked at the rest par-3 course to become a premier golf complex which of our foursome from across the table, raised his in 2020 will host the U.S. Amateur championship. glass in a toast and asked the question: “Can it get Any grumbling our foursome had over the any better than this?” 2.5-hour drive from the Eugene airport ceased No reply was necessary. 34 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com May 2019 35 Spieth_8-25x10-875_GolfChicago_F_x1A.pdf 1 4/23/19 5:30 PM

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