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Northwestern's Women's Team Advancing from the NCAA Regional at Wisconsin to the NCAA Championship Is Illinois Golfer SzokolSzokol 1st-time1st-time winnerwinner •• ZiehmZiehm inin KeyKey WestWest •• CourseCourse GuideGuide IllinoisIllinois GolferGolfer DigitalDigital EditionEdition MayMay 20182018 FourFour straightstraight Big Ten champion Nick Hardy forfor IllinoisIllinois menmen Page 2 • May 2018 • Illinois Golfer www.illinoisgolfer.net ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The Buzz In This Issue –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– News –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Illinois men do it again 5 Furtney makes Four-Ball semi Northwestern women advance 7 Remember this name: Megan Furtney. from a bizarre injury last year. Albano takes Will County Am 8 Sportsman’s next under knife 9 A junior at St. Charles North who lives in South The pinky finger on her left Langer to miss Senior PGA 10 Elgin, registers for tournaments from Chicago, and is hand was crushed between a Opinion already committed to Duke University, Furtney and table leg and a table, and she –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– teammate Erica Shepherd of Greenwood, Ind., made nearly lost the fingernail. Two Grill Room: Hardy the real deal 4 it to the semifinals of the recent U.S. Women’s Amateur surgeries and four months Departments –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Four-Ball Championship at El Caballero Country Club later, she’s good as new. She Road Warrior: Our man in Key West 12 in Tarzana, Calif. tied for eighth in the IHSA’s Around Illinois: Szokol a winner 14 Say what you will about the Four-Ball replacing the Class 2A tournament last fall, The Schedule 16 Public Links a few years back on both the men’s and and is off to a great start with Megan Furtney The Scoreboard 17 The Directory 18 women’s schedules, the fact is they’ve been popular this showing playing with Shepherd. Tour Guide 27 with players and, especially on the women’s side, have If that name rings a bell, it’s because Shepherd identified a passel of new players. advanced to last year’s Girls Junior title match on the Furtney is one of them. She teamed with fellow 19th hole of the semifinals when opponent Elizabeth 17-year-old and future Duke teammate Shepherd – the Moon raked a missed par putt back without Shepherd Illinois Golfer winner of last year’s U.S. Girls Junior – to run through having the time to concede it and then saying “I didn’t –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– the field until running up against a pair of 20-year-olds say it was good,” causing a stinkaroo that Shepherd May 2018 Digital Edition • Vol. 4, No. 2 in the semifinals: Katrina Prendergast of Sparks, didn’t need. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Nev., and Ellen Secor of Portland, Ore., who scored Furtney and Shepherd were 13-under-par in a pair Published monthly April through December, a 3 and 2 victory over Furtney and Shepherd. The duo of matches the day before – including the usual match- with occasional special issues from Colorado State then knocked off the all-Chinese play concessions – to advance to the semis, ignoring –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Publisher & Editor Tim Cronin (with a twist) pair of 16-year-old Lei Ye and 17-year- 14 mph wind and temperatures in the 50s. They piled Travel Expert Len Ziehm old Yachun Chang, 1 up after being 2-down with five up eight birdies in the quarterfinals against Pepperdine –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– holes to play. teammates Momoka Kobori of New Zealand and Hira Join us online at www.illinoisgolfer.net Write us at P.O. Box 541, Worth, Illinois 60482 The twist for Ye and Chang? Ye is from the Peo- Naveed of Australia, and still only won 2 and 1. E-mail us at [email protected] ple’s Republic of China, Chang from the Republic of By advancing to the semis, Furtney and Shepherd Call us at (708) 638-1164 China, a.k.a. Taiwan. Peace through golf. qualify for next year’s Four-Ball in Jacksonville, Fla., pro- Follow us on Twitter: @illinoisgolfer –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Furtney has hummed along since bouncing back vided they stay a team. Display / classified advertising: ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Call (708) 638-1164 for particulars. Illinois Golfer assumes no responsibility for unsolicited materials or claims of advertisers. Caveat emptor. The Cover Nick Hardy displays his Big Ten winner’s medal (left), and is joined (right) by the rest of the Illinois –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– golf team after a fourth title in as many years: front, Hardy and Dylan Meyer; back, assistant coach Zach Barlow, © 2018 Illinois Golfer LLC, a unit of Cronin Multimedia Brian Baumgarten, Giovanni Tadlotto, Michael Feagles, coach Mike Small. / Jenny Dewar, Illinois Sports Information Page 3 • May 2018 • Illinois Golfer ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– EYE ON SPEARS: Local broad- him to a 6-over 76 at Gleneagles Coun- cast maven and website operator Rory try Club’s Woodlands layout in Palos Spears, who occasionally contributes Park, and became the difference-maker photos to this publication, and was kind when he and Long bogeyed the last. enough to allow IG publisher Tim Cro- Colin Chromy of Naperville and nin to guest host his Saturday morning Matthew Buckley of Elmhurst each gabfest on WNDZ-AM 750 recently, had scored 78. There was a field of 32, av- scary news for his readers in his Golfers eraging 84.53 strokes, for the first IJGA On Golf column. He’ll need laser sur- tournament of a season that runs until gery on his eyes because of cataracts. the IHSA’s high school season begins. We bring this up because several pals REMKE RESURFACES: Terry insist on wearing sunglasses to coun- Remke of McHenry started as general teract the damage the sun can do. manager of RedTail Golf Club in Lake- Said the ever-optimistic Spears, wood on March 20. “The good news is that all is curable, Ten years ago, he was charged and by late summer I should no longer with stealing more than $10,000 from need to wear glasses anymore. I am the Lisle Park District, where worked at looking forward to that, but the next the golf course. He eventually pleaded couple months until all is settled won’t guilty to a Class B misdemeanor and re- be a lot of fun. It will also limit how much ceived two years’ probation, plus repaid golf I play. I’m still good from about 140 $169,593, including his pension, the yards and in, but following my drives Northwest Herald reported April 7. and fairway woods is now a challenge. Lakewood officials knew of and in- I don’t like asking the rest of my four- vestigated Remke’s past, which he noted some where my ball went all the time.” on his job application. He had worked the We could toss in a one-liner here, past 11 years for Euclid Beverage. but we’ll just wish him well. By the end “Mr. Remke demonstrated a very of summer, he’ll be at and over the 500 sincere remorse for his role in the 11- mark in courses played, and with his year-old incident, and I believe very vision fixed, ideally find the ball in the earnestly he wants nothing more than middle of the fairway. an opportunity to redeem himself and to QUICK START: Jason Czabaj of get back into the world of golf, his pas- Deer Park used a birdie on the par-4 sion,” village president Paul Serwatka 16th as the difference in his one-stroke said. “And in Mr. Remke’s case, I be- victory over Naperville’s Gregory Long lieve a second chance is warranted.” on April 21 in the opening one-day tour- Remke had no comment to the nament of the season in the Illinois Ju- Herald, beyond “One of these days, I’ll nior Golf Association. Czabaj’s 3 helped talk.” Page 4 • May 2018 • Illinois Golfer www.illinoisgolfer.net ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The Grill Room by Tim Cronin Hardy has the look of a winner his is not the regular corner to hang out on for predictions that pan out. We thought the Titanic was unsinkable, that the Hindenberg would have a smooth Tflight every time, and that the Cubs would find a way to lose in 2016. And generally, to quote the late Pete Axthelm, we follow horses that follow other horses. However, having picked this year’s Kentucky Derby 1-2 finish of Justify and Good Magic on the button – without having a ticket for same, of Tim Cronin / Illinois Golfer course, there being no mutuel window near the Hardy talker home couch – there is a certain bit of confidence Nick Hardy was a blooming. popular interview So let’s put it this way. Nick Hardy is going to at the Rust-Oleum be a winner as a pro. Not just win money, but win. Championship’s Trophies. Titles you’ve heard of. media day at Ivanhoe And likely, a bunch of them. Club. He has plenty of game, but then, thousands of players out there have plenty of game. Both were well-spoken, and Kelly’s tale of made $12,000 or so had be been a pro. Instead, What Hardy also has is a smart head on his playing through Brazil, Peru and Uruguay – not he got a pat on the back from tournament director shoulders, smart enough to understand golf re- exactly the Florida Swing – was captivating. Clair Peterson. ally is flog spelled backwards, that this royal and Hardy will made his professional debut What Hardy would love is another sponsor’s ancient game is just that: a game. at Ivanhoe, following the finish of his college exemption into the Deere, as he received last year This notion that the kid from Northbrook who career at Illinois, and is taking the opportunity so and as he’s getting into the Rust-Oleum. has won a pair of Big Ten titles, the most recent seriously he’s skipping trying to qualify for the If Hardy finishes in the top 25 at Ivanhoe, one outright a fortnight ago, became more clear U.S.
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