SPRING 2016 YOUR GAME. YOUR TIME. The Golf World Turns Its Eyes to Magical Minnesota Hurry Down to The Brickyard Golf Club, Home to the Indy 500 A Dynamic Course Duo Have Florida’s Streamsong Calling You PLUS: SwingByte Saves Your Swing, 2016 Equipment Preview, FastTraverse TracksCity’s Bogeys & Brews, Wonders of Walworth County & Much More RyderFlorida’s Finest Cup Ready Table Volumeof Contents 9, Issue 1 Departments 4 Publisher’s Note 6 Bump & Run Cantigny Golf Club 22 Featured Courses Map 26 Chicagoland Featured Courses Features 46 First Tee of Greater Chicago Ready for Ryder 10 Minnesota’s Set for Golf Spotlight, 51 Executive + 9-hole Courses & Its Courses Are Waiting For You The Ex-Pat Architect 38 52 Instructor’s Corner Roger Packard Was One of Chicago’s Most Prolific Designers Until 53 Practice Range Guide Moving Abroad 54 Michigan Featured Courses Geneva Convention 65 Wisconsin’s Wonderful Lake Geneva 62 Wisconsin Featured Courses Area Now Home to Its Very Own Golf Trail 78 Rules of the Game Get Your Heart Racing 82 80 Indiana Featured Courses For Unbeatable Thrills, Put the Pedal to the Metal & Head 91 Midwest Select Courses For The Brickyard Golf Club Your complete guide to Chicagoland and surrounding area golf courses View & Brew 99 Traverse City, Michigan Becoming a 122 Golf Tech Talk Paradise For Craft Brewers — & Golfers 128 Industry Insider The Dynamic Duo 112 Streamsong Resort’s Courses Offer ON THE COVER: The 17th hole at Deacon’s Lodge, a Florida Destinaton Unlike Any Other Breezy Point, Minnesota Grand Traverse Resort Publisher’s Note hether it’s the seasons, today’s fashion, or especially, our golf swings, the only constant in life is change. We’re all a work A Division of Killarney Golf Media, Inc. in progress, tweaking and tinkering with the moving parts of P.O. Box 14439 ourselves, personally and professionally. Myself included. Madison, WI 53708 I’ve invested 10 years of my heart and soul into GolfTime Phone: 608-280-8800 Fax: 866-877-9879 Magazine, and I couldn’t be more proud of the results. We’ve grown and changed so much over that time, and with this issue, I’m pleased to announce another change: GolfTime Magazine is now part of Killarney Golf Media. It wasn’t an easy decision, but one I PRESIDENT know will pave the way for even bigger and better things for this John Hughes magazine in the future. One thing, however, won’t change: a commitment to bringing GENERAL MANAGER you the very best from the Midwest’s golf scene. We have much Jim Kelsh [email protected] of that on display in this issue, starting with our cover story, about Wthe magical golf in Minnesota. Hazeltine National Golf Club, in MARKETING CONSULTANTS Kim Thompson Chaska, is the site of this year’s Ryder Cup, so start preparing with [email protected] our feature on page 10. Jackie Fiegel [email protected] We also bring you the golf wonders of Walworth County, Wisconsin, home to the new Lake Geneva Area Golf Trail, filled EDITOR Don Shell with terrific tracks. It’s a don’t-miss destination in the Midwest if [email protected] there ever was one, so check out our feature on page 65. CONTRIBUTING There’s plenty more where that came from in this issue, though. WRITERS We take you to Florida’s spectacular new Streamsong Resort Steve Dowling Rob Hernandez on page 112, and inside the storied track at Indianapolis Motor John Morrissett Speedway — and the Brickyard Golf Club — on page 82. We Betsy Voyles also talk to Chicago native and prolific golf course architect Roger CONTRIBUTING Packard, beginning on page 38. PHOTOGRAPHERS Peter Schulz It’s another issue I’m excited to share with you, and a great start Peter Wong to this magazine’s new chapter. It has been quite an adventure, and Nile Young Jr. I am honored to say I have been a part of this incredible industry. DESIGN AND GolfTime has helped to define who I am today. PRODUCTION I’d like to say thank you to all of the loyal clients, friends and Muddy Creek Creative readers I’ve made along the way. The biggest thank you goes to my husband Mike, and my parents, Mary and Jim, for their unending ©Copyright 2016 GolfTime All rights reserved. love, support and encouragement. GolfTime is not responsible or liable for any errors, omissions We’re all forever changing, but some things stay the same. It’s or changes in information. still Your Game, and Your Time. Thanks for sharing it with us. 4 WWW.GOLFTIMEMAG.COM Back with Bite Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead Course Revamped & Renewed If you’re looking for a stellar, sunny spot to play this spring, take your clubs south to Tampa, Florida, for a spin on the new, renewed Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort. A favorite stop on the PGA Tour and home to the Valspar Championship—won by a fella named Jordan Spieth in 2015—the Copperhead Course recently reopened after a substantial restoration project. Copperhead was designed by Larry Packard in 1974, and the remodel was assisted last year by his son, Roger (see our feature on page 38). The elder Packard, who helped create the American Society of Golf Course Architects and has more than 600 courses to his credit, loved the place so much he retired there, calling it home until he passed away in 2014 at the age of 101. But the course was showing some wear and tear over the years, and underwent a complete reseeding, greens and bunkers got makeovers, and the second and third fairways were raised two to three yards higher to reduce flooding. Innisbrook is owned by Chicago billionaire Sheila Johnson, CEO and founder of Salamander Resorts. Visit www.innisbrookgolfresort.com. NEWS & NOTES FROM THE WORLD Bump & Run OF GOLF Bump & Run Start the Shows GolfTime Magazine Set for Midwest’s Best Golf Shows What’s the next-best thing to the golf season in the Midwest? The golf show season of course. We’re lucky to have some of the country’s most excellent golf expos, and you’ll find us at The Belly Ban Begins! a show near you! Come out and say hello: Just like a New Year’s resolution to lose weight, 2016 is the year that the PGA, the USGA and the Tinley Park Golf Expo — Feb. 12-14, 2016 www.TinleyParkGolfExpo.com R&A — golf’s Big Three ruling bodies — introduce West Michigan Golf Show — Feb. 12-14, 2016 www.showspan.com/WMG Rule 14-1B, the ban on “anchoring.” Of course, that Chicago Golf Show — Feb. 26-28, 2016 www.chicagogolfshow.com really means saying buh-bye to the belly putter, as a golfer “in making a stroke, must not anchor the club, either ‘directly’ or by use of an anchor point.” You can always keep the belly putter, of course. You just might need a little less belly to use it. For more, visit www.usga.org. An Elite Club Mistwood Completes Clubhouse, Restaurant One of the Midwest’s best properties is the Ray Hearn-designed Mistwood Golf Club, the reborn club in Romeoville, Illinois. Owned by Jim McWethy, Mistwood’s clubhouse is now finally complete, with the opening of McWethy’s Tavern. The Scottish-themed clubhouse and event center can accommodate groups of 250, with another 80 in the new tavern. With everything from Scotch eggs (naturally) to steak sandwiches, filets and lamb chops, as well as 18 beers on tap and full bar, McWethy’s Tavern is the cherry on top of a major, multi-million renovation project at the club, making it a premier property in the Chicago golf scene. Don’t miss it. www.mistwoodgc.com 8 WWW.GOLFTIMEMAG.COM YOUR GAME. YOUR TIME. 9 MINNESOTA GETS SET TO HOST GOLF WORLD’S BIGGEST MATCH ~ The 2016 Ryder Cup ~ BUT THERE’S MUCH MORE IN STORE THERE, TOO By Steve Dowling Multi-million renovation gives Mt. Prospect READY & WGolfAITI Club a bright future, by returning Nto the past G — By D on Shell Legends Club, Prior Lake, Minnesota YOUR GAME. YOUR TIME. 11 hen Davis Love III was named For Lehman, who grew up in Alexandria, captain for the U.S. team Minnesota, it’s been a “local boy makes good” for the 2016 Ryder Cup at dream come true for the 1996 Open champion. Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, “On a personal level, being from Minne- Minnesota, he knew he was going to need sota, from Alexandria, Minnesota, to be able some insider knowledge. That’s why he to go back home and be a part of this Ryder didn’t wait long — or look far — to Cup team, it will be a thrill beyond all thrills,” name his first vice captain. “On Febru- he said. “I am honored to be able to go back ary 24th I was lucky enough to be named home to Minnesota and be a part of this.” the 2016 Ryder Cup captain for the U.S. team,” Love explained. “On that same day, I announced Tom Lehman would be my first This, of course, is the golf world’s biggest Get Ready for the Ryder Cup WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GOLF’S GREATEST EVENT vice captain. stage, the 2016 Ryder Cup, set for Sept. 27- SETTINGOct. 2 at the THEhistoric STAGE Hazeltine National, just WHAT: The 41st Ryder Cup property at any given time. There will be 2,000,000 outside the Twin Cities. And while thou- WHEN: Sept.