any years in the planning and thou- sands of unforgettable experiences in the making, the CDGA’s Three- Hole Sunshine Course and MI*Mag*Jen Clubhouse were formally dedicated Sunday, June 6, under bright blue skies and an appropriately blazing sun. The dedication ceremonies featured a major announcement underscoring how significant the Sunshine Course and the Sunshine Through program are to the Foundation’s ambitions. On June 6, the Foundation’s name officially changed to the Sunshine Through Golf Foundation. CDGA president Robert Berry unveiled the Foundation’s new logo: a smiling reflecting sun rays. The 500-yard, -3 Sunshine Course rests on the grounds of the Midwest Golf House in Lemont, across the street from Cog Hill Golf & (Above, L to R) Billy McEnery, Frank Jemsek and Bob Berry take . The course was conceived and ceremonial first shots on the Three-Hole Sunshine Course. built for the express purpose of serving those (Opposite) Head golf professional at Village Greens, Brandon Evans, assists who might otherwise never tap the benefits of a Sunshine Through Golf participant in playing the Sunshine Course on the game, including beginners, juniors, individu- June 6. als with disabilities, minorities and the economi- cally disadvantaged. Speaking to an audience of 200 comprising Sunshine Through developers will use the course to assess a wide variety of turf- Golf participants, CDGA members and their families, and repre- grasses grown on , greens and demonstration plots across sentatives of the organizations that will benefit from the Sunshine the . “While golfers play,” Berry stated of the project, “turf- by Neal Kotlarek Course, Berry talked about a new beginning for the Foundation grass research is taking place.” and the completion of the Midwest Golf House project. The course serves still another role as an arboretum. Trees, “What you see here today was little more than a dream of the shrubs, flowers and grasses planted across the Midwest Golf CDGA board of directors four years ago,” Berry said. “A prairie House property are a resource to CDGA member clubs along with made up of dirt, gravel and a little grass is now a … nurseries, landscapers and other green industry associations. Today, the dream has become a reality.” Berry’s speech was followed by a ribbon-cutting ceremony Berry cited the hard work of staff members and volunteers for the new clubhouse located a few steps south of the first tee. involved in all phases of the project. He extended personal Maggie McEnery, who along with daughter Jennifer thanks to the Jemsek family for the donation of the property Christopher founded and runs I*Mag*Jen Charities, spoke used for the golf course and the Midwest Golf House; Brent movingly of the project’s ambitions. “Here’s wishing years and Wadsworth, who donated his time and created an endowment years of happiness to the children who will come and play fund supporting the project; and I*Mag*Jen Charities, which here,” she said. donated funding for the clubhouse. Following the ceremony, McEnery talked about the gift as After describing the golf course and its 12,000-square-foot the culmination of an amazing week in her family’s life. “My putting green, Berry reflected on the Sunshine Through Golf pro- gram and its mission. “The program began as one camp with 10 participants,” Berry said. “The gates of the Sunshine Course are now open to its 700 members.” The USGA recognizes the Sunshine Through Golf program as the largest grassroots golf program for individuals with dis- abilities in the country. The Foundation launched the program in 1999 with the ambition of introducing golf to those who might not otherwise participate in the game. This teaching- camp series has grown in participation each of its first five years. This year, the program extends to 50 public and private golf courses and reaches 700 physically and developmentally impaired children and adults, including stroke victims, amputee golfers and individuals with Down Syndrome. Along with its primary role of introducing and hosting golf for local groups and associations that serve its constituencies, the course will serve as the largest living turf-research laboratory in the nation. Green industry associations and golf course

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16 WWW. CDGA. ORG JULY/ AUGUST 2004 17 Study in intensity: reads a green at the 1999 PGA Championship at Medinah CC. or most people, burst onto Chicago’s golf scene when he won the 1997 , his final round remembered more for the thou- sands of fans who walked behind him down the last 150 yards of Dubsdread’s 18th fairway than for the 4-under-par 68 Fhe scored to break a 54-hole tie with Justin a Leonard and Loren Roberts. The 68 set up the postcard moment at Cog Hill, but pictures have a way of super- seding statistics, and even a collection of superb shots, which Woods stitched together on that steamy Sunday in Lemont, plays second best in the mind’s iger eye seven summers later. Indelible though it was, that was not Woods’ first appearance in the Western Open, or even in Chicago. To replay that requires rewinding the clock five additional years, to the summer of 1992 and the 75th . Coincidentally, it commenced at Cog Hill, on the facility’s No. 2 course. In those days, Woods was referred to as Eldrick as often as he was Tiger, and he ale was most certainly a prodigy. He was a big hitter who didn’t find all that many fair- ways some days, but already had a knack It’s 1997, and legions of jubilant spectators for escaping trouble with a creative second shot. On a green, he was deadly. throng behind Tiger Woods as he approaches A 16-year-old, he looked like the second no. 18 green at Dubsdread, about to clinch his coming of Seve Ballesteros to some, a spray t hitter who could score. He’d already won first Western Open victory. The moment was the 1991 U.S. Junior Amateur, at 15 the youngest to do so, and had played in the nothing short of electrifying. Yet this wasn’t 1992 Open. “It was probably two years before we Tiger’s first taste of glory in the Chicago invited him that we knew of him,” recalls District—he’d competed here before in the Peter de Young, then the ’s tournament director. “We Western Junior and , his all- knew it was a big deal to get him, and Rob Cray, my assistant then, should get the but-impossible shots and fiercely competitive credit for getting him. We gave Rob a list of nature foreshadowing a storied PGA Tour career. the 30 best juniors in the country, and he went after them.” Woods was at the top of the list even before he annexed the 1991 U.S. Junior, so getting him was a coup. The average fan might have heard the name, but the close follower of the game knew who Tiger PHOTO BY NICK NOVELLI/COURTESY MEDINAH CC by Tim Cronin Woods was.

JULY/ AUGUST 2004 19 “He was really a standout superstar (in At 4, he walked in to take his seat. It’s “I remember watching him hit balls,” (Opposite) Fans surge behind Tiger amateur golf) at that point,” says Don unbelievable how many people knew Rimsnider says. “It was cool. He was so as he approaches no. 18 green at Johnson, the WGA’s executive director. exactly who he was. They almost stood skinny, and he looked younger than 16, the 1997 Western Open. “He’d won the U.S. Junior. He was defi- and applauded.” but wow! He just roped it. His swing nitely a quasi-celebrity. He was sort of Part of the attraction for Woods was was crisp, effortless. It was, ‘Boom! (Left and below) In 1992, a young like where Michelle Wie is now.” the site of the match-play rounds: Boom! Boom!’ It was neat to watch him.” Tiger fell to during Wie, by twice playing in the final Chicago , where the first That “roping” didn't lasso many quarterfinal in the group of the Dinah Shore on Sunday, and Western Junior had been held in 1914. birdies in Woods’ first round in Chicago. 75th Western Junior.

by coming within a stroke of making the First, though, the would take Playing with Michael Nicklaus, Jack’s PHOTOS COURTESY WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION cut in a PGA Tour event as a 14-year-old place, with one round on Cog’s No. 2 youngest, and North Barrington’s Alex girl, has likely supplanted Woods in the course and another at Edgewood Valley. Buecking, Woods scored par 72 on No. 2. sweepstakes for most astonishing golf His penchant for making impossible up- feat at such a tender age. She’s certainly TIGER’S CHICAGO and-down pars from under trees and out been on television more than Woods at DISTRICT DEBUT of the rough was, along with his length that career juncture. Still, considered One of the first local people to see Woods off the tee, the most impressive thing against the yardstick of the day, Woods with a club in his hand was Jeff about his game. was something. Rimsnider, Cog Hill’s head pro. It was “I’ve had that all my life,” he said to a “He and his father Earl arrived on two days after had won gaggle of reporters later, sounding like Sunday of the Western Open, and we the second Western Open played on someone who had heard the question gave them tickets for a corporate tent Dubsdread. Rimsnider had thus already 100 times before, which is likely. “I can’t across the lake from the 18th green. We seen two years’ worth of PGA Tour tell you when I first had it. I’ve always put him in the front row,” de Young swings on the practice range, but he been able to get it up and down.” remembers. “We had a 5 o’clock finish. could not help but be impressed. Only a couple dozen fans watched him at Cog Hill, but his gallery would “It was just a prayer,” Enloe said.

PHOTO COURTESY OF WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION grow by the day. He looked like a winner on the first Woods scored 2-over 74 the following hole after his tee shot split the fairway day at Edgewood Valley, going out in 4- and his approach stopped six feet from over 40. A good-sized group of members the cup. But Woods, after a wild followed him, and what they saw next into Chicago Golf’s famous ankle-deep was a hint of the future. Woods hit two rough, powered his second shot onto greens in regulation on the back nine and the fringe. He saved par. Enloe’s birdie still scored 2-under 34. He easily quali- putt spun around the cup and out. Off fied for match play. Then the fun began. to the second hole for the second time. Several hundred spectators followed And an anticlimax. him around Chicago Golf, in part to see Woods won the match with a routine the ultra-private course, and in part to par, Enloe doomed by a tee shot into the see the kid in the headlines. He wrote high stuff. another in his first-round match with “It was like a boxing match, seeing Decatur’s Jason Enloe. who could break who,” Woods said. Woods was 1-down to Enloe at the turn Two matches later, Woods broke. He What de Young didn’t anticipate was and was on the verge of dropping the 10th fell in the Friday afternoon quarterfinals how good Woods would become. hole until he rolled in a 10-foot downhill 3-and-1 to Ted Purdy, now a fellow Tour “At the Western Amateur, we saw kids putt for a par-saving halve. The drama was player and then a junior rival from the like , Willie , Jay just beginning. Woods snapped his drive high school ranks. Haas and come along,” de out-of-bounds on the 14th, losing the hole “I didn’t necessarily win,” Purdy said Young reflects. “ won the to again go 1-down, but rebounded on the at the time. “It was more like Tiger lost.” Western Am twice. Yeah, I thought 15th green with a 35-foot birdie putt to Even then, Woods had some players Woods was going to be good, but not as even the match, then equaled Enloe’s 10- believing they were sightseers in a match, good as he is.” foot birdie with a 25-foot bird of his own though on this occasion, Purdy was right. Thus ended Woods’ first Chicago-area on the 16th to keep it even. Woods’ sometimes-erratic tee shots put appearance. Just a year later, he would The battle was on. Enloe smashed an him in places from which recovery was begin to make an even deeper impression. approach three feet from the cup on the impossible. 17th. Woods put his eight feet away. Two Publicly, Woods was gracious, saying, THRILLER AT more birdies—that’s three in a row for “I didn’t have it.” POINT O’WOODS Woods—and it was off to the 18th. Privately, he explained why. Now the scene shifts to Point O’Woods There, Woods made a routine par while “After the match,” de Young remem- Golf & Country Club in Benton Harbor, Enloe found the hole on a 25-foot par bers, “he told me, ‘You know, if my dad Mich., annual site of the Western putt that had 18 inches of break, extend- didn’t make me go to a movie last night, Amateur. It’s 1993, and Woods is making ing the match to overtime. I’d have beaten him.’” his first appearance at the Point.

20 WWW. CDGA. ORG JULY/ AUGUST 2004 21 By now a three-time U.S. Junior cham- TIGER AND THE RADIX TROPHY pion, Woods was asked to appear at a Woods is a four-time (2000-2003) recipient of the Harry E. Radix Trophy. pre-championship news conference. As Presented annually by the CDGA since 1934 and held for one year by the he spoke, Joel Hirsch, one of Chicago’s PGA Tour player with the lowest official scoring average for 70 or more eminent amateurs, entered the back of rounds during a calendar year, the trophy is named in the honor of the late the room. Harry E. Radix. “Tiger was finishing up just as I got Radix, a former CDGA president who passed away in 1965, there,” Hirsch recalls. “He was handling promoted competition between professionals and amateurs in the state of himself beautifully. I noticed his dad, Illinois with the Radix Cup Matches. Teams of 10 are determined under a introduced myself, and said, ‘Your son for point system, with the CDGA selecting the amateur players and the Illinois his age is remarkably poised, not just as a Section PGA selecting the professionals. The event continues today in golfer, but as a human being.’” Radix’s honor. The seeds were thus sown for a friend- ship, but Hirsch and Woods didn’t really connect until the following year, in a practice round for the U.S. Amateur at the TPC at Sawgrass. Woods was coming off a win in the 1994 Western Amateur. Hirsch found that significant. “I told him, ‘The greatest players have won the Western Am and gone on to pro (Left) Tiger competes in the 1994 careers. This week should be a slam dunk Western Amateur. (Above) With his dad for you. Go out and win it!’” Hirsch at his side, Tiger relishes victory at the remembers. 1994 Western Am. Angeles Open when he invited Woods as How Woods advanced through that a 16-year-old in 1992. “A good college Western Am is the stuff of legend at the (Opposite, top) His name atop the player, good amateur player, in the top leaderboard, Tiger executes at the 1999 Point. It was Saturday afternoon, and the Western Open. five there. You knew he’d make it as a match-play quarterfinals were underway. pro, because typically, the good college Woods, on the verge of his freshman year (Opposite, right) A chip shot during players become good pro players. at Stanford, was playing , a Tiger’s third Western title run, in 2003. “I never thought about him tran- fine player from Oklahoma State. scending the sport. But you knew that After 12 holes, the match looked like PHOTOS COURTESY WGA anyone beating everybody so badly a rout. Woods was 4-up. Then Tidland would be a pro.” went crazy. He birdied the last six holes, McLaughlin had wanted to get Woods chipping in for a 3 from 60 feet away on in the L.A. Open field a year earlier, but the winning that Western at 80-1, nonethe- down and play Glenwoodie. I was the par-4 18th to send the match to tournament’s board wouldn’t go along. less wrote, “Someday he’ll win everything thrilled that he was at a golf course that extra holes. “He was 14 at that time, would have in sight.” we were connected with.” “It looked like Chris Tidland’s day to sensational match, the highlight of been 15 by the tournament, but the That was still a long way off. Woods At that time, Jemsek was still leasing shine,” notes James Ashenden, a former Woods’ Western Amateur triumph. board said, ‘If he’s good enough, he’ll scored 74-75—149, missing the cut, but Glenwoodie, a fine course in Glenwood, WGA president who was on the scene. “How could anyone play the last eight be around next year.’ They were worried still made an impact that extended from the Archdiocese of Chicago. Woods Not yet, it wasn’t. Woods had made holes in a match in 7-under par as about what the pros would think about a beyond Cog Hill. and his father had corresponded with two matching birds to keep Tidland from Tidland did, and lose?” Ashenden says 15-year-old in the tournament. “I remember that about 100 people Don Kimbrough, a teaching pro, and a winning outright, and in sudden death, Tidland had no trouble two-putting incredulously. “But he did, because here “But he almost got in anyway. He were following him each day, which I game was arranged. It would be Tiger, anything could happen. for par. Woods had to make his. was Tiger making a 40-foot putt and then played in the four-spotter on Monday, thought was impressive,” says Cog Hill Earl Woods, Kimbrough and one of Tidland was on the green of the par-4 “I had this funny feeling,” Tiger said a 20-foot eagle putt. You could almost see and had to make birdie on the final hole president Frank Jemsek, noting that ama- Kimbrough’s students. first in routine fashion. Woods pulled his later. “I saw the line of the putt. I stood the future for Tiger Woods, when he to make it in. He hit it in the water and teurs don’t usually get a gallery beyond “He got a very good reception over drive into the left rough, then sailed his over it and said, ‘Just hit it, and it will go overcame that kind of a comeback by his made double-bogey instead. If he’d made family. “Normally, an amateur missing the there,” Kimbrough recalls. “It was kind of approach over the green. Normally, he in.’ Just a fluke thing that happened at opponent to win. I’ve never seen any- it, I’d have been able to go to the board cut in the Western Open would get invited amazing. We had a bit of a gallery at the would have been dead, but he got lucky. the right time.” thing like it.” and say, ‘See?’” to play Butler National or Medinah or end, and when he drove the 17th green, “(It) hit a lady standing on the back of Now Woods had the mental momen- Nobody had ever seen anyone like Olympia Fields. the guys cheered. I remember that we the green,” Ashenden remembers. “The tum again, and not even Tidland’s sev- Woods, really. And nobody really knew WOODS BOWS “Tiger was not invited to play those came to a par 5, and I hit driver and 3- ball dropped four or five feet behind the enth birdie in eight holes would be able how far he’d go, even given the resumé AT THE WESTERN places. Number one, he was a junior wood and was on in two. He hit driver green. If he hadn’t hit that lady, he would to counter it. Tidland’s 4 on the par-5 sec- he was assembling. Not even Greg McLaughlin had no problem inviting golfer, and number two, you hate to say and 4- and was on in two. I eagled, have been another 30 feet past the green.” ond was good, but Woods’ eagle 3, con- McLaughlin, who would replace de Woods to the Western Open in 1993 and it, but there was still some prejudice in he birdied, and he left the green mad. He Not that he was in great shape. The structed by a booming approach over the Young as the WGA’s tournament director 1994, and even put him in the pre- golf. I don’t know if that was involved, wanted to win all the time.” hole was near the back edge, the green gully in front of the green and the sinking in 1993, was sure. tournament Skins Game, which he and but I know that now, the world would Woods would win the 1994 Western sloping away. Try as he might, his chip of a 20-foot downhill breaker of a putt, “Definitely a pro, for sure,” says teammate won. One welcome him. Am a month later, knocking off Tidland shot stopped 40 feet below the cup. was better. It was an incredible finish to a McLaughlin, who was running the Los reporter, pegging the odds of Woods “So we arranged for Tiger to come in the process, then proceed to the 1994

22 CHICAGO DISTRICT GOLFER JULY/ AUGUST 2004 23 U.S. Amateur. It wasn’t a slam dunk— would happen for the first time at Cog “The WGA events have been really Woods had to rally to beat Hill. Woods fired rounds of 74-71 for a special to me because, just the way on Sawgrass’ back nine in the afternoon 36-hole total of 145, making the cut with you’re treated, the way that they support round—but Woods remembered Hirsch’s two strokes to spare. Any notion of con- junior golf, it’s just the whole atmos- advice. He and Hirsch began to play tending went by the boards with a 77 on phere that brings all of us back,” Woods practice rounds when they were entered Saturday, but a 3-under-par 69 on Sunday said shortly before this year’s Western. “I in the same tournament, even after served notice to anyone who was still in think a lot of amateurs who played in Woods turned pro. doubt that Woods definitely belonged. WGA events as amateurs and juniors are As in 1999, for instance, when they “That was a solid round of golf,” now playing the Western Open because played Medinah No. 3 on the Tuesday of remembers McLaughlin, who left the they want to be affiliated and support Western Open week, Woods wanting a WGA in 2000 to run Woods’ foundation. what the WGA does. sneak preview of No. 3 in advance of that The Western was not only Woods’ first “It’s been a fantastic experience from year’s PGA Championship. Six weeks made cut, but his first time under 70 in a the time I played the Western Junior at later, Woods would battle his way to vic- pro tournament. And that helped do Chicago Golf Club up through my tory in that PGA, surviving an early run exactly what all tournament directors Western Amateur days to the Western from Sergio Garcia, a mid-tournament hope for when granting exemptions. It Open.” push from golden oldie and a brought Woods solidly into the WGA fold. Of course, it also doesn’t hurt that he late charge from a resurgent Garcia. His “My whole point for giving the loves Cog Hill. one-stroke victory would be his third in exemption to someone on the way up is “I’ve always enjoyed the driving aspect Chicago, following the Western Opens of that they’d be appreciative and support- of Cog Hill,” Woods remarked. “On top 1997 and 1999, and would be the first of ive of the tournament in the future,” of that, I like how the greens are config- five wins in majors in six starts (and seven McLaughlin explains. ured. You have these little fingers that in 11), the greatest modern-day tear So it has been with Woods. He turned offshoot and you’ve got to hit the ball to GROUPS OF 8 OR MORE through the big four since down an exemption in 1996, preferring to a specific (yardage) and a specific spot. hung up his spikes. save them for after he turned pro, but has “You can’t go ahead and fire at a flag. QUALIFY FOR PACKAGES! 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