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Features August brings the dog days, and not just because of Sirius’ position in the night sky. The GOLFChicago Interview The heat can be unbearable – it was for a time in July – and the cool of Visit our Departments Loyola’s Porter Moser on Golf, Hoops and Life 12 autumn and fall golf seems a million days off. (It isn’t.) GOLFChicago 5 Opening Shot Langford, the Great Forgotten Architect To keep cool, we go old-school a bit this month, with Neal Kotlarek’s look at one of the greats of American golf course architecture, William Magazine 16 Neal Kotlarek Explores the Work of Chicago’s Unknown Designer 6 The Good Stuff Todd Mrowice Prowls Boice Langford. We lost him in 1977, but he finally gets his due with induc- Fan Page The Other Side of Golf the Aisles tion to the Illinois Golf on facebook. Wherein We Find the Game in Unusual Forms and Places Hall of Fame in October. 18 8 Instruction Langford’s courses in Connie DeMattia’s Setup Illinois include Butterfield for Success and Ridgemoor coun- 10 Sweet Home Chicago try clubs, along with 21 On The Shelf Kankakee Elks, the A Singular Woman in Golf latter of which you can
25 GOLFChicago Map And play without knowing a Directory member. His best known Where to Play and How to course – built with long- Get There time associate Theodore J. Moreau – is Lawsonia’s 23 On The Corkscrews Links course in Green Stephen Hawk Explains Lake, Wis., which is Vino’s Terminology golf as pure as can be 30 Final Putt made by the hand of man. That’s where Neal first became acquainted with Tim Cronin on Nicole Jeray the genius from Chicago’s Austin neighborhood, and where his look at Cover and above: Porter Moser. Photo: Tom Yaam Photography and Loyola University Fighting the Good Fight Langford begins. For flavor, we bring back the words of the man himself, in a rare- ly-seen essay from The Chicago Evening Post of 1915, when Langford was Chicago’s Premier Multimedia Golf Source & Authority SUBSCRIBE TO just starting out. It’s as timely today as it was then. Founder: Bill Daniels Sales and Business Development GOLFCHICAGO Publisher: Dave Weretka Contact Andy Rees 312-451-1355 For something a bit lighter, we sent Neal to play miniature golf. He dis- Editor: Tim Cronin Editorial Inquiries covered parallels between the putt-putt game and Topgolf, putting it all Free Golf* with Your Art Director: Stephen Hawk Tim Cronin [email protected] under the umbrella of Entertainment Golf. Paid Subscription Senior Writers: Neal Kotlarek and Todd PO Box 541 Mrowice Worth, IL 60482 We’re also up to date with our cover story, an interview with golf nut Chicago’s Premier Business Offices Instructional Staff: Andy Mickelson, Andrew 3701 Juniper Avenue Porter Moser, who guided Loyola to the men’s Final Four last year. Moser Multimedia Golf Source & Ogata, and John Platt Joliet, IL 60431 815-741-8005 is not only a fine coach, but a fine storyteller. Authority Delivered To Your Editorial Contributors: Stephen Hawk, Rory Door Six Times A Year Hughes, Dave Lockhart, Greg Martin, and John © Copyright 2019 There’s also instruction from Connie DeMattia, Todd Mrowice’s Morrissett monthly look at the Good Stuff, a preview of the return of big-time golf Visit Photography: GOLFChicago Staff and Group 27 www.GOLFChicagoMagazine.com to Medinah Country Club in the form of the BMW Championship within Advertising and Marketing Inquiries for details Dave Weretka Sweet Home Chicago, and a few thoughts on this year’s Phil Kosin Illinois [email protected] 815-741-8005 Women’s Open in Final Putt. 4 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com August 2019 5 THE GOOD STUFF Step Forward in Style Brought to You by Long gone are the days of leather saddle shoes. The golf shoe game is advancing and are now an integral part of your performance and style. The new Under Armour Fade RST 2 kicks are the perfect Scotty Beams Us to Teryllium blend of style and comfort. The Molded US Rotational It’s been 22 years since the original Resistance combines spiked and spikeless for Scotty Cameron Teryllium-inserted TeI3 superior traction on all surfaces. hit the market and changed the putter $109.99 game. Starting Aug. 16 you can get your hands on a modernized version called the T22. Available in Newport, Newport 2, and Fastback 1.5 models, these flat sticks have all of the qualities you’d expect from a Scotty. $599 Find Yourself with this Garmin Garmin leads the golf technology field in just about every category, and the new Approach G80 handheld shows exactly why. Garmin has combined a touchscreen GPS (pre-loaded with 41,000 courses) with a data-crunching launch monitor to make the ultimate device. Easily take this device from the range to the course. $499.99
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our address position involves your do) it is ideal to practice alignment to Yposture, weight distribution, the a target, and alignment dictates your width of stance, aiming and ball position. ball flight. This being stated, it is best Posture is critical in making a good to set the club face “square” or aiming golf swing. The most important thing down your starting line. Now set your here is to create a spine angle, a tilt to body perpendicular to the club face or the spine that you are able to maintain parallel to the line on which you want the throughout the swing. To do that you ball to start. The shoulder and forearm must be in balance, bent properly from alignment is more important than the the hips and with some flex in your knees. feet. Why? Because the hands and arms A good guideline for weight distri- are holding and directing the path of bution is if someone were to push you the club while the arms are attached to gently, either forward or backward, you the body in the shoulders. would be able to maintain your balance. Your hands will hang almost straight How to Position the Ball down, allowing you to sole the club to The position of the ball in relation to your the ground. Your weight should be dis- stance is one of the most important and tributed between the balls and heels of most overlooked fundamentals in golf. your feet and equally distributed between Your ball position determines to both feet. You should be able to tap your a great extent the direction in which heels and wiggle your toes. At this point you swing. If you play the ball too far you have counter-balanced your weight. forward, your shoulders will aim to the You should be able to draw a vertical left at address, and tend to swing to the line from the back of your shoulders left of your target line. If too far back Aiming Body and Clubface How to Position the Ball Impact through your knees to the balls of your in your stance, your shoulders will aim feet. Now you are in balance. right at address, and tend to swing to The width of your stance has a lot the right of your target line. to do with the length and shape of your Where is the ball positioned? This is swing. A good rule of thumb is that your very important, because it is not about stance with a mid-iron (6-iron), measured the position between your feet, but at the inside of your heels, should be the rather the position to the left shoulder! width of your shoulders. Of course, there You can use your feet as a reference, but are variations. The wider your stance, the only if you are certain to have taken a wider or lower or flatter your swing is balanced and proper setup with your going to be. A wider stance inhibits the body. A driver should be positioned hip turn. A narrower stance encourages even with your left shoulder joint, which more turning of the hips and a longer, should be opposite your left heel, and more vertical swing. steadily moved back with each club until Your stance will narrow as the club you get to the middle of your stance gets shorter. The width of your feet will with a wedge. never be as wide as it should be with a As clubs get shorter and more lofted, driver. You do not need as much speed it is the added loft that dictates the ball for the finesse shots, so you do not need moving back from the left shoulder joint. as much support from the base. Lofted clubs will “square up” sooner than less lofted clubs in a centrifugal motion. How to Stand Properly to the Ball A good golf swing is a centrifugal motion The hardest thing about teaching ama- around your spine. teur golfers about aiming the body and clubface is that they let their ball flight Connie DeMattia is the director of instruc- dictate alignment; however, when prac- tion at Cantigny Golf in Wheaton, and ticing to hit the ball straighter (which in can be reached at (312) 925-7968 and Weight Distribution Width of Stance Iron (Full Swing) Width of Stance Narrow most cases is what we all would like to [email protected]. 8 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com August 2019 9 and the European Ryder Cup team was celebrating like Dan playoff. Two years ago at Conway Designed by Dick Nugent and chief designer David Glod has come Gurney at Le Mans, spraying Champagne upon any and all Farms, Marc Leishman beat Rose and opened in 1990, the second group of up with a trio of irons designed for within range. Rickie Fowler. Jason Day and Zach owners went bankrupt shortly after custom-fitting. it was a scene of unbridled joy minutes after the great- Johnson also won at Conway, and the 2016 Illinois Open. In came a All are under the HL4 name, with est comeback – or collapse, take your pick – in Ryder Cup Jim Furyk went ’round that links in 59 group headed by food merchandis- a set of pure irons, an iron-wood set, history. The Euros came back from a four-point deficit in the strokes in the second round in 2013. er Eddie Greco with a winning bid, and the Triple Combo. “HL” stands for Sweet final three hours of singles play on Course No. 3 to pull the followed by renovations to the club- Hot Launch, and the “4” indicates the The 70-player field – the top of the putting green out from under an American team that looked PGA Tour in the tournament before the house – especially downstairs, where fourth generation of the series over- like sure winners at lunch. whole shooting match is decided – is the indoor pool has been replaced seen by Glod. All three seven-piece that was almost seven years ago now, and if some deservedly a draw. by casual dining. series start with the 4-iron and carry Home of the names have changed from then to the upcoming Furyk could be in the field at “We saw different ways we could through four wedges, three of which BMW Championship, others have not. Phil Mickelson Medinah, but neither he nor any of his improve each area,” general man- can be added on in both left- and and Keegan Bradley – the latter the winner last year at cohorts will fire a 59. Right? Right? Drop ager Brian Tulk said. “Our 30,000 right-handed models. square foot clubhouse is the epicen- “The HL4 irons are traditional in Aronimink – will be there, as will Tiger Woods if his achin’ by from August 15 to 18 to find out. ter of Royal Fox.” looks only,” Glod explained. “Their back allows, along with Bubba Watson and Matt Kuchar, those coming from a long way out Chicago the course, which winds through advanced game-improvement tech and along with the stars who have emerged since, including might consider the closest lodging to woods and between luxury homes, design techniques make them beautiful Brooks Koepka, Jordan Spieth, and Gary Woodland. Oh, Medinah, the Eaglewood Resort and hasn’t been changed as much, performers at a price well below the and Rory McIlroy as well, last seen at Medinah racing to Spa – known way back as Nordic Hills though the bunkers have been rebuilt, majority of irons available.” the clubhouse via squad car to avoid missing his tee time and found online at eaglewoodre- Huzzah, Todd Sones! after, shall we say, sleeping late. (Wide awake on the tee, and some overgrown areas have sort.com – a high-end hotel that just A well-deserved honor he beat Bradley 2 and 1.) been cleared. Beat the Bugs happens to be next door to the fifth landed on the doorstep of Woods won the last two stroke-play tournaments on gary March, whose opening The buzz factor in golf isn’t always hole on No. 3 and boasts 18 holes veteran golf instructor Todd Medinah’s beefy No. 3 course, the 1999 and 2006 PGA 63 last year spread-eagled the good. Take this spring and early sum- itself. And at a hair over 6,000 yards, Sones last month. The pro- Championships. The first time around, he held off 19-year- field at McHenry Country Club, is mer, for instance. If it has wings, it’s out what the resort calls the “Little Green prietor of Impact Golf at old Sergio Garcia, who should be around this time as well, the defending champion, but watch and about and aiming for us. White Deer Run in Gurnee, for his second pro major and the first of an incomprehen- Menace” will nip at you but not bite. out for the usual suspects, includ- that means a serious bug spray is whose recent instructional sible seven in 11 starts. The second time, Woods ran away ing a pair in last year’s top six, Roy necessary to make outdoor living pos- book, The Scoring Zone, and hid, beating Shaun Micheel by five strokes and Garcia, Senior Time at Royal Fox Biancalana, who lives nearby, and sible. Proven 14-Hour Insect Repellent was featured in these Luke Donald and Adam Scott by six to make it three PGAs The Illinois Senior Open sneaks under Connie DeMattia, this issue’s featured Lotion fits that niche. There’s no odor, pages in recent issues, was and a dozen pro majors. the radar most of the time, but this instructor, to make a run. it’s non-toxic (no DEET) and safe for named the winner of the the BMW – a sponsor for next year’s shindig at year’s playing at Royal Fox Country kids, and works like a charm. The PGA of America’s Horton Olympia Fields has not been announced – was called the Club in St. Charles on Sept. 16-17 Locally-grown Custom Fit Clubs secret is the extracts from black pep- Smith Award for educa- Western Open until the playoffs came along, and the switch may change that. It’s the first time the Custom fitting is all the rage these per plants, enhanced with aloe vera. tional service to his fellow was slow to catch on with Chicagoans, but the last several 50-plus set has teed it up at Royal Fox, days, and almost a must for those try- They combine to chase everything professionals. years, here or elsewhere, the box office has been boffo and a seven-time site of the Illinois Open. ing to get the most out of their game, from skeeters to the pesky no-see-ums Sones, a member of the PGA for 34 years, was the action has been worth the price, delivering healthy rev- What’s more, the clubhouse and so it’s good to see Tour Edge, the St. away. Find it at most local retail out- described in the announcement as “a passionate advocate enues to the caddies-to-college Evans Scholars Foundation. course has undergone a refurbishing Charles-based club manufacturer, lets, or via Amazon. for continuing education,” noting that he “devotes con- Last year, Bradley held off Justin Rose in a sudden-death under new ownership. getting in it. Company founder and —Tim Cronin and Neal Kotlarek siderable time to mentoring his fellow PGA professionals, including an interactive teaching series in the Illinois Section for younger members.” Sones’ Impact Golf School opened in 1997, and he’s devoted virtually all his time to it since. The hard work has paid off, with the school recognized as one of the top golf teaching facilities in the U.S. on numerous occasions. he’s been a fixture in the area for so long his impact – to choose a word at random – sometimes goes unnoticed. But Sones’ pupils have had success locally and nationally, as has he. The PGA Master Professional is a two-time Illinois Section Teacher of the Year, a three-time Section winner of the Horton Smith, and has been on Golf magazine’s list of America’s top 100 teachers since 1996. That’s a record of longevity that few have matched. in recent years, Sones has served on the National PGA Coaching and Teaching Committee – working on the new teaching methodology the PGA hopes will help revitalize the game – and the Illinois PGA Education Committee.
The BMW Motors In The last time big-time golf was played at Medinah Country Club, the sun was setting on a warm September Sunday 10 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com August 2019 11 The GOLFChicago Interview
Porter Moser and his Loyola Ramblers
– and Sister Jean – became the toast of
Chicago in March of 2018, when they made an improbable march to the NCAA Final Four. Porter Moser
Moser was hardly an overnight success, in Rambling Thoughts basketball or golf. In this interview, he speaks on Golf and about both sports, and more. Basketball
by Dave Lockhart and GC: Tell us about your golf game. Dave Weretka GC: When you were a kid were you game just went away. PM: I do have a great golf story since PM: Well there’s not much to say. I wish I was better. I love it. I around the game at all? At what age GC: We measure ourselves with the you bring that up. I was the head just don’t get a chance to get out as much but I absolutely love Photos: Tom Yaam Photography did you started playing? golfers by handicap, so once they coach of Arkansas-Little Rock at it. I played a lot when I was younger and two things happened and Loyola University PM: You know, we lived right off Cress ask you, what would your handicap age 32, and meet (Augusta National to my golf game. The biggest one is I had four kids, and once Creek Country Club in Naperville and be roughly? members) Warren Stephens and Joe they traveled for basketball, baseball, they were all different. I so we belonged there. We used to go PM: Let me just say I shoot for the mid Ford. Joe Ford was the CEO of Alltel; almost feel guilty carving out six hours on a Saturday. over and golf with my dad and my high 90s. That’s what I’m shooting for. If he’s the one that actually put the green The only thing that happened at my golf game is when I school buddies. I would golf pretty I shoot for 95 to 100 that’s the area I jacket on Tiger. Joe Ford called me went to work for Rick Majerus. Coach Majerus, he (was) not regularly through high school and then always seem to get 2-3 penalties. That’s up. “Do you want to go to Augusta a golfer, he’s a grinder with no kids so we spend a lot of time when I went to Creighton and played what gets me; then I always have that and go golfing for two days?” And I’m talking balls, but I’m going to pick it back up. I’m going to pick college basketball, I didn’t really golf one shot that cost me every hole. like, sure, I really didn’t deserve that it back up eventually but it’s just to be outdoors, competitive in college and then I picked it up a GC: Do you have a favorite place I guess. Ford says “I’m going to pick against the course, I love it, I just wish I was better and spent little bit when I started coaching and you like to play in Chicago or you up, meet me in my private plane in more time practicing. then when I started having kids my another golf destination? the hangar there in Little Rock. We’re 12 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com August 2019 13 going to go with my buddy Pat and his son.” So was just so blessed to be in Chicago, the city gets the bug. We’ve golfed a couple of times at I get on the plane and I walk into the private that I love, where I’m from, and to see where Canal Shores. We run over there. He’s getting plane and it’s Pat Summerall, so we flew with it was and to see where we’re going and I feel the bug and he’s going to take some lessons Pat and his son Luke. along this journey … I feel like I have had a this summer. We went to Augusta and I stayed in the purpose, whether it was with the people, the GC: What else about the game draws you Butler Cabin, which is nuts. I mean you have the alumni, with the kids at my camp, whether it in that you really like about it? Do you TV, the chimney, the fireplace. If you panned was my players. I just feel like I belonged and have any plans to play more golf in the the camera to the right there’s one bedroom. that was a factor obviously, getting to the NCAA future; any destination travel trips? That’s where I stayed for two days. It was the tournament. Some of these leagues, it’s four or PM: What draws me in? I play an indoor sport most incredible experience. I love talking about five bids to a league, so it becomes harder for and I love the outdoors, so I love that part. I this, but I got up in the morning at like 5 and Missouri Valley to get multiple bids. That’s a love the camaraderie of it. I love calling some just walked the grounds and I really felt like I factor that we’ve got to really address. But as far buddies, walking around, driving around, was in heaven. It was probably the closest thing as Chicago and Loyola – I love it. I love seeing talking, getting away, feeling the breeze and I to it. And just by myself, there’s some grounds people you know around where we go, whether love the competition of it, for me to try to get crew people. That was the Holy Land of golf. its Wrigley Field or downtown or anywhere on better at it. Me and coaching – I know I’ve got It was the first time I ever had a caddie and it our campus. I just feel like there’s a lot more to practice but it doesn’t make a difference, I was amazing because I’m all over the map and I things we can do at Loyola and it’s a big factor still get mad when I miss a shot. I’m like, I know didn’t lose as many balls cause the caddies are why I chose to stay. better. I got to practice if I expect to walking around, like “there it is.” GC: Life basically changed get that shot but that draws me in. GC: What else is special about the game after that Final Four run. Talk GC: Do you use it as a recruiting that draws you in a little bit? Are there about some of the things that are tool to maybe play with the kid’s any comparisons at all between basketball different out there now. parent or play with the kids and and golf? PM: Without a doubt and it never tell them listen, you need to come PM: Well the one comparison in my mind gets old. Someone came up to me to Loyola and play basketball is putting and free throws. You see a four- last night and it was like, “I know for me? or five-foot putt and when there’s a little it’s old,” but they started telling me PM: No, but like (Clayton) Custer pressure on it is different because your mind a story. “I’m from the class of ’84 and (Ben) Richardson, those guys starts playing games and there’s a saying that and we all got together with our are like really good some. I’m goes, talk to yourself, don’t listen to yourself. friends,” and I guess it never gets holding off playing with them, You know that’s the thing you talk to yourself old. I get chills talking about it. but they played in the Loyola golf – I’m going to make this, I got this –instead How we connected the university, outing; they’re going to play again of listen to all the demons. You know, always connected to the city. When I got this year. And those guys are really I relate that to free throw shooting, and get the job everyone said, “Porter, you good. Our freshman Paxson Wojcik, to talk to yourself and stay positive, and stay can’t do it at Loyola, it’s a pro town, he’s a really good golfer. So it’s in the moment. Same thing with these short it’s a pro town and I kept on saying funny because there’s a handful putts and it’s different. it’s a sports town.” If you’re blue of our guys play and but I’ve never I always hear, it’s funny when you hear an collar, if you’re tough, if you do it the right used it as a recruiting tool. I think we might older person that never played say, “I don’t know way, they’re going to embrace you. Chicago not get the kid if they took me golfing. how you guys miss free throws.” I could go out embraced how we did it. We did it with great GC: What’s the best thing about your there and just say well yeah – in the YMCA. kids, the No. 1 graduation rate in the country game? Is there a strength in your game? There’s nobody in the gym. Pressure is an extra with Harvard. So academically, we’re knocking PM: Well, two, three weeks ago, I had a golf factor, but just like free throws and putting it out of the park and I think they really related bag that I had Wilson Fat Shafts from twenty- you’re going to practice. You see guys that are to the toughness of our team, I love that about five years ago. At times I’ve hit it far fine. Most just spending time on the putts but I do kind Chicago, and I want to keep building that. times, I just don’t know where it’s going. So I’ve of relate those short putts with the pressure to GC: You mention that you have four kids. got to start with that, because my short game is free throws. You’re supposed to make them but Have they caught the golf bug? definitely not my strength. My putting is not my there’s a little bit other factors involved. PM: My youngest have, my older ones they still strength. So if I had a strength every once in a GC: You had some offers from a couple of think they’re going to be – you ask one million while, I can hit it off the tee box a long way. big schools and you decided to stay here 15-year-olds what are you going to do when you GC: Okay do you have any favorite at Loyola. You want to build the program grow up and they want to be in the NBA. So he players or favorite golf stories you can here. Tell us a little about your decision. might, but I want to keep encouraging them. I share with us? PM: Well I took this job eight years ago and I wish they would, but my 12-year-old, Max, he continued on page 24 14 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com August 2019 15 Over the past decade or so, I have found myself forgetting things. Things like the location of my keys. began writing about the art of golf course design in the Recollections like when and where I last used a certain credit card. And I have to cop to once even misre- 1910s and championed the construction of six-hole golf membering my – gulp! – wedding anniversary. Despite those ghastly memory lapses, I have never forgotten courses that could accommodate modest budgets and the first time I stepped onto the tee of a William Langford-designed golf course. would also cater to the time constraints of busy working For the uninitiated, Langford thrived during golf’s “golden era,” when the likes of Donald Ross, Alister folks. (The one six-hole course he designed was for the MacKenzie, Harry Colt, A.W. Tillinghast, and Stanley Thompson roamed the earth creating spectacular Doering family on their private estate in 1931.) courses that would somehow maintain their integrity and challenge 80, 90, or 100 years later. Of the over 250 courses Langford built, his public Imagine an America a little more than 100 years ago that had less than course gem was the very property I encountered way 750 courses. Over the ensuing 14 years from 1916 to 1930, nearly 6,000 new back in the summer of 1973 that introduced me to courses dotted the American landscape. In an era when Colt was designing his work. The Links Course of Lawsonia finished con- Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland (1929) and Tillinghast was designing struction in 1930 and to this day has remained one of Winged Foot Golf Club and Baltusrol on the East Coast, Langford was plying the top public golf courses in not just Wisconsin but his trade across the Midwest, first alone and quickly in partnership with in all the Midwest. Meticulously built using 1920s-era Theodore Moreau, who was his longtime shaper. steam shovels, the course features wide-open, flowing William Langford, whose courses have style and provide a fair and some- Langford, fairways, cavernous sand bunkers and, of course, times stern test, is finally getting his due. He’s one of six notables slated for Langford’s signature plateau greens. induction into the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame in October. He’ll be the fifth full-time While many of the works of Langford’s contem- professional golf architect so honored, joining Tom Bendelow, Robert Bruce poraries have diminished in challenge due to the onset Harris, Charles Maddox, and Dick Nugent. (Members Charles Blair Macdonald, of club technology, it is critical to note that the Links who brought golf to Chicago, and the three Foulis brothers, contemporaries of course at Lawsonia has not just stood the test of time Macdonald, also designed courses, but for Macdonald it was an avocation while the Great over 89 years, it continues to challenge even today’s the main job of all three Foulis brothers was golf professional.) top players. Langford’s early works on private clubs in the greater Chicago area In July, the course hosted the Wisconsin State include original designs of Aurora (1914), Ridge (1917), Park Ridge (1919), Amateur and was praised by contestants for its quality Gary (1919, now known as Innsbrook), Bryn Mawr (1921), the 27 holes of and beauty. Long-time Wisconsin golf writer Gary Butterfield (1922), Ruth Lake (1922), Acacia (1923) and Westmoor (1926, D’Amato writes that he’d be “hard-pressed to pick a now public and known as Schaumburg Golf Club), plus revisions of Riverside course in Wisconsin that is more interesting, challenging, Forgotten and memorable, including the ones that have hosted (1916), La Grange (1918), Westmoreland (1919, with a return visit in 1939), Idlewild (1920s), Glen Oak (1922), Ridgemoor (1927), and Skokie (1938). major championships.” A heady statement, indeed, The Great Depression all but stopped the golf business well before his considering that the state’s impressive championship Skokie assignment, but after World War II, he scored one more private club course line-up includes the likes of Whistling Straits, assignment: Village Green in Mundelein in 1955. Blackwolf Run, Erin Hills, and Sand Valley. While many of Langford’s projects were for private clubs, he was a great The best way to truly appreciate the magnificence supporter of public golf and even operated a number of daily-fee courses Architect of the Links course is in the early morning or early in Illinois during his lifetime. He also served for many years on the USGA evening, when shadows are cast across the fairways and Public Links Committee. bunkers. One cannot truly appreciate the steepness His public course designs in the greater Chicago area include a trio of By Neal Kotlarek of the undulating fairways and bunkering during the courses that still exist: what’s now known as Winnetka Golf Course (1917), mid-day sun. Of course, the imposing depth – some Marquette Park on Chicago’s South Side (1925), and Hieland Lodge (1927), more than 10 feet – of the bunkers becomes blatantly which after several ownership changes is known as Kankakee Elks. Of the PJKoenig Golf Photography obvious to players as soon as they are confronted by several other courses that Langford designed, one he also owned is notable: a greenside shot that requires nerves of steel and a Mid-City Golf Course at Western and Addison, just north of the Riverview wide-open sand wedge. Amusement Park, was an 18-hole course Langford and Moreau designed With broad fairways lined by wispy fescue and a on the site of a filled-in brick quarry. It might have been the first landfill virtually treeless landscape, the Links course prods course. Their design headquarters was in the clubhouse, and from 1924 through its closure in 1951, after players to bomb away off the tee. Approach shots are several revisions, it was where Langford ran his operation. (Today, the WGN television studio complex sits another matter altogether as anything left or right of on some of Mid-City’s acreage.) the massive greens may stray into the aforementioned Besides being a prolific designer, Langford was also a visionary. A member of the three-time NCAA precarious bunkers. Even shots that reach the greens champion Yale University golf teams from 1906 to 1908, Langford applied his master’s degree in mining engi- require refinement as all of the putting surfaces are neering to create stunning courses that took advantage of natural hills, ravines and valleys of a property. He quick and steeply undulating. continued on page 17
16 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com August 2019 17 nology to record each shot and tabulate scores. The event served to emphasize the Topgolf concept of combining golf with social gatherings, food and cold beverages. Topgolf communications manager Morgan Schaaf said that the Topgolf Crush events are scheduled in baseball and football stadiums across the country to provide additional exposure to the Topgolf concept and offer unique settings to existing Side Topgolf participants seeking a different way to experience the game. 0ther “Topgolf has an international fan base The of nearly 100 million,” Schaaf said. “With 50 venues across the U.S., we entertain more than 17 million guests annually. The brand is By Neal Kotlarek about excitement and fun. We love golfers. But we also love people who want to try golf. Or who want to hang out at a fun, safe, and inter- Golf esting environment. We encourage families to of Golf can be many things. come. We encourage groups of friends to visit. It can be challenging. It can be And we want couples to get to know each other exasperating. It can be intrigu- better while hitting golf balls.” ing. But entertaining? Perhaps Topgolf was unveiled in 2000 by British twin only to my caddies when they brothers Steve and Dave Jolliffe, who sought bet against me. to improve the driving range experience with This is only one man’s opinion, golf balls containing microchip sensors that can of course. In reality, there are track a player’s shot pattern. In 2005, the con- many bright minds making cept reached the U.S. with the Wood Dale venue investments large fitted with heated hitting bays to allow golf to be and small on golf played even during cold weather. By 2015, the com- concepts that are pany had 28 locations, including its Naperville more about fun and facility which was basically Topgolf 2.0. Its entertainment and improvements included Toptracer technology (as less about slogging seen on the PGA Tour when balls are tracked off through 18 holes at your the tees and fairways in blue or red streaks), a local muni. wider variety of dining and bar options, and party With sites at Wood areas that include fire pits, lounge furniture, pool Dale and Naperville, Topgolf tables, video game consoles, shuffleboard, meeting has been a major factor in space, and HDTVs. introducing millennials and All of the Topgolf venues offer events, tour- Gen-Zers into the game. Brett naments, fund-raisers, kids/teen parties, and golf Hintz, Topgolf’s director of operations, instruction. has pointed out the two facilities are “Topgolf is more than a golf experience,” said more than mere driving ranges. “We Hintz, who will manage the company’s newest location are about fun and entertainment,” Hintz in Schaumburg in coming months. It’s a place to meet said. “While the entire concept of Topgolf friends and to make new friends. You can visit to hit is based upon the game of golf, golf balls and work on your game. Or you can visit to we’ve come to learn that many of watch the Cubs game and enjoy a cold microbrew before our patrons visit because we’ve hitting golf balls. Or you can just enjoy some outstand- created a welcoming atmosphere ing food while watching people play golf. We are a sports around food and fun that also bar. And a restaurant. And a driving range. Topgolf is all involves golf.” about entertainment.” Hintz spoke in mid-July There’s that odd parallel again: entertainment as it while co-hosting a Topgolf Crush relates to golf. Huh? event at Soldier Field. That con- Perhaps the original attempt to pair this odd couple together occurred cept involved placing target areas on the in 1928 when a Tennessee man named Garnet Carter patented a game playing field while launching golf balls from the called “Tom Thumb Golf.” Carter built a miniature golf course at his upper deck. Target areas contained sensors that Lookout Mountain hotel. The course had a fairyland theme and fea- Topgolf Crush Photos: Sean Berry track shots and award points for accuracy. Monitors tured obstacles that needed to be avoided en route to the hole. It was an located behind each hitting bay used Toptracer tech- immense hit, reaching a peak in 1930, partly through Carter’s Fairyland
18 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com August 2019 19 Manufacturing Corporation, which by that year sold over ball field), a knight in shining armor, Frankenstein’s head 3,000 of his Tom Thumb miniature golf course franchises and even a 10-foot tall Les Paul guitar obstacle. Hours at OnOn THETHE across the country. Novelty Golf, which is open until the end of October, are While the craze faded, miniature golf never disap- from 10 a.m. until midnight. sshehelflf peared, and has a long and storied history across the Miniature golf thrives in the suburbs. From Haunted A Singular Woman in Golf Chicago metro area. A story from 1930 noted that many of Trails on Harlem Ave. in Burbank –mini go-karts are Tim Cronin these installations weren’t putting-only courses, but pitch- another attraction there – to Troy’s Lost Mountain Golf and-putt layouts that would take up a vacant lot or two, adjacent to the Zigfield Troy par 3 and range in Woodridge, and that 65 were expected to be built in the Chicago area, to Wilderness Falls in Bolingbrook, there are all manner of themed courses open day and night through the season, with Chick Evans the designer for one of the companies, by ong before the fight for equal pay the Vanderbilt Cup, which rivaled the should be a par 3, directly across the attracting families by day and often teens on a cheap date the end of the 1930s. The Hyde Park Golf Lbetween the sexes, back in the era Indianapolis 500 for headlines in the ocean. She wanted the hole to be a at night. and Racquet Co. boasted when old men with old minds were still early days of racing – and was a brilliant heroic opportunity. The men had told Sometimes, the golf is serious in miniature. The of a course in that arguing that women should stay in the polo player. her that it was an impossible drive, 2009 U.S. Open ProMiniGolf Championship – honest – Chicago neighborhood kitchen and out of the voting booth, All of that would be enough for but she thought otherwise. To prove was held at Ball Fore, a Chicago Ridge Park District with holes as long as along came Marion Hollins. toasts in her honor, but then comes her point, she teed up a ball and with course in Worth, where Kevin Lacey ignored the 50 yards. She was a household name among her position in golf. A fine player, she a brassie sent it on its way across the multicolored greens and won by seven The game eventu- golfers back in the day, but today is won the U.S. Women’s Amateur in 1921, water. Where her ball landed is today strokes. ally evolved into the largely unknown. beating Alexa Sterling eight years after the center of the green.” This October, golf- putt-putt standard that Given her resume, she should be losing in the final. Eight years later, she Like that, one of golf’s greatest ers looking survives today. Par- well known. Born into privilege, Hollins was the bright light behind the founding holes was born. MacKenzie’s legacy for a hybrid King Skill Golf, one of took advantage of that and became of the Cypress Point Club, just a wedge was enhanced. between the area’s more notable what some called the leading American or two from Pebble Beach. A year later, Hollins’ status as a standard-bearer Topgolf and courses, originated in sportswoman of the first half of the she founded Pasatiempo, the public first appeared when she was the force miniature golf 1963 in Morton Grove at 20th century. She was an accomplished course not far away. behind the formation of the Women’s will be able the 4G Fairways driving horsewoman, apparently the first woman And that, plus encouraging words to National Golf and Tennis Club on Long to experience range (which fascinat- to drive in an auto race – Bobby Jones, convinced him Island, which survives as the Glen Head Five Iron Golf in ingly stood for “George’s to hire Alister MacKenzie, Country Club. She had Deveraux Emmet Chicago’s Near Gorgeous Golfing Garden”). designer of Cypress Point design it, and wrote, “On every hole North Side. The The course was soon ref- and Pasatiempo, for his there are one or more alternate lines company leased erenced as “Minigolf’s Taj new private club, Augusta of play besides that of the direct line to 11,000 square Mahal” by a leading trade National. the green. This permits the shorter or feet of retail space magazine due to the elaborate But Hollins was with cannier player to attempt a softer line at the base of the set-up ,which included a hole MacKenzie almost every of direction, although usually it costs 60-story Millennium under a model of the Prudential step of the way. David an extra stroke to do so.” Central at Dearborn Building—then one of the Overbridge explains as One could write that about any and Ontario streets. tallest skyscrapers in the U.S. In 1977, much in Champion in a well-designed course today. The 5i facility will offer Par-King was moved to a larger venue Man’s World, his 1998 Perhaps Hollins faded into obscu- 12 high-tech simulator in Lincolnshire and today features two biography of Hollins, rity because of an early death – at 52, stations featuring sensors 18-hole courses, 19 moving obstacles, and whose extended family he several years after a concussion from that indicate spin rate and swing speed. seven water holes. Among the coolest married into decades after an auto accident from which she never Existing 5i locations in New York include features of the course are a miniatur- her death. Overbridge fully recovered. Pasatiempo, financed ping-pong, shuffleboard, widescreen TVs, ized version of Mount Rushmore and an takes us back to the after she struck oil and made a fortune, full bar service, food, instruction, and almost life-sized version of a futuristic construction and the was sold after she went through that in-house club fitting. rocket ship. indecision over how fortune. She lived out her years at “You’re going to see simulators and Closer to Chicago, Novelty Golf in the 16th hole would Pebble Beach, not a bad place to do other experiential concepts taking over Lincolnwood just celebrated its 70th be designed, not- so, through the generosity of Samuel urban markets in the next several years,” anniversary by featuring discounted ing that both Seth F.B Morse, who had hired her to sell Five Iron Golf CEO Jared Solomon told the play and a live music concert. Owner Raynor, whose design real estate and develop Cypress Point Chicago Tribune in a June interview. “The Craig Klatco oversees two fun 18-hole was largely discarded originally. Her last hurrah was win- younger generation gets bored just going to courses along with hitting cages, a when he died before ning the 1942 Pebble Beach Women’s a bar.” photo booth built in 1954, and the construction began, Championship – her eighth triumph in The owners of Topgolf echo Solomon’s Bunny Hutch restaurant. Klatco has family enter- and MacKenzie, whose a tournament she created. sentiments exactly as the company has announced plans tainment in his bloodlines as his grandmother opened routing was being Her end was bitter, but until then, to open Topgolf Swing Suites at the Chicago Athletic Hollywood Kiddieland in 1949, located at Lincoln and built, wanted a dog- Marion Hollins was ahead of her time. Association hotel later this summer and at 900 North McCormick avenues. The family grew the business to include leg par 4 leading to Michigan Shops at the end of this year. Hollywood Putting, a mini-golf course that stood adjacent to a green on a rocky Champion in a Man’s World Featuring simulator bays, the concept allows not just a small midway headlined by a small roller coaster. peninsula. By David E. Outerbridge golf to be played, but also hockey, baseball pitching and While that business closed in the 1970s, the miniature “Marion had dis- Sleeping Bear Press (1998) something called zombie dodgeball. While maybe not your golf course was transferred to the current Novelty Golf agreed, however,” $24.95 originally grandfather’s idea of a golf venue, the concept sounds, if location near Lincoln and Devon Aves. The course features Overbridge wrote. Available through Amazon, Abebooks, lions, a “Chicago” bear (prowling, of course, over a foot- anything, quite entertaining. “She argued that it eBay, HalfPrice Books 20 GOLFChicagoMagazine.com August 2019 21 Langford continued from page 17 Langford on Hazards On THE Located in Green Lake (about 35 minutes from Fond du CORKSCREWS Hazards Should Encourage Lac), the Links of Lawsonia is ranked 58th on Golf Digest’s 100 Say What? (Part 1) Thoughtful Golf Greatest Public Golf Courses list and 64th among Golfweek’s Stephen Hawk By William Langford Top 100 Classic Courses in the U.S. Hazards should not be built solely with the idea of penalizing bad The Chicago area includes two of Langford’s public course projects – the first nine of the 18 holes at Winnetka Golf Course play, but with the object of encouraging thoughtful golf and of (known as Skokie Play Field when it opened in 1917), and the rewarding the player who possesses the ability to play a variety of design in 1960 of a short par-3 course on that same property. e’re two-thirds through summer, and It causes grapes to shrivel, concentrating strokes with each club. John L. Low has said that no hazard is unfair While neither course parallels the size and scope of the Links Wit’s just too damn hot to be drinking both sugar and flavor, while the acid level wherever placed, and while this is true, a hazard is obviously the at Lawsonia, Langford’s touch can be found around the subtly much of anything other than ice-cold beer remains high and deters a cloying sweet- wrong place to play one’s shot, yet the proper placing of hazards rolling greens on both courses. or some chilled vino, in a can no less. So ness. Dessert wines particularly benefit will bring about very much more interesting golf than a haphazard Four years before they opened the Lawsonia course, Langford this seems like an excellent opportunity from botrytis, most famously Sauternes. arrangement of them is and Moreau designed Hieland Lodge, 18 holes financed by Sid to review some wine terms you may not Too much moisture just before harvest, apt to do. McHie, the publisher of the Hammond Times on the banks of be familiar with, but should prove helpful. however, can cause botrytis, which is then Topographical the Kankakee River near Aroma Park just east of Kankakee. Acidity is one of wine’s essential called gray rot, to destroy an entire harvest. features may arbitrarily With at least three owners, including the Kankakee Elks club in components, along with others such as Brix is the system used in the U. S. to determine the location recent decades, and reopened for public play a few years ago, tannins, alcohol, and fruit. But a wine measure the sugar content of grapes and of hazards on a hole, the property itself contrasts greatly from the Lawsonia project, should have just the right amount. Too wine. The grapes of most table wines have as it was built through dense forests and incorporates only a about 20 grams of sugar to 100 grams of and if the ground is at high, and the wine will be tart, biting, and handful of bunkers. That said, the course remains preserved sharp. Too low, and it will be dull and flat, juice. About 55 percent of the sugar is all rolling, will certainly virtually as originally built with the par-3 No. 5 the only change. commonly characterized as flabby. In dry converted to alcohol during fermentation, influence the bunkering Grass mounds at the edges of fairways, a throwback to the table wines, appropriate acid levels are so juice with 20° Brix will result in about system to a large extent. early days of American golf course architecture, are notable. between .6 and .75 percent. Sweet wines 11 percent alcohol. Brix measurements are As the number of topo- While relatively short at 6,430 yards, the course is made more go a bit higher, with a range of .7 to .85 taken throughout the growing season. graphical combinations challenging by the sharp angles called for in approach shots to percent. As important as acidity is, its A Bung is a plug, usually cork, used are infinite, so is the the plateau greens. contribution should be subtle. to seal the Bung Hole in a wine barrel. possible arrangement Ranked among the state’s top 15 courses you can play by Aeration is the process by which air is The winemaker periodically removes wine of hazards on holes of Golfweek in 2017, the course is highlighted by a series of short, deliberately introduced to wine, sometimes through this hole to check its progress [email protected] any given length. fun par 4s and a delightful set of par 3s. Best yet, the course called letting a wine “breathe.” While air in in barrel. The only general can be played for a bargain $40 with cart on weekends and a sealed bottle is anathema to wine, many The Cap is the mass of grape solids Cuvée is a French term meaning “con- statement that can be $30 with cart on weekdays. are convinced that aeration, especially for that float on the surface of red juice during tents of a vat.” In the Champagne region, fermentation. The cap needs to be frequently it refers to a blended wine, as almost all made is this: Hazards Given the vast number of courses built by Langford and young, high-tannin red wines, softens them Moreau, one can’t help but wonder why the duo never achieved and opens their flavors. This is the main agitated to help extract color, flavor, and Champagnes are. These traditional house should be placed so that the acclaim of contemporaries like Colt and MacKenzie. Indeed, reason for decanting or swirling the wine tannins. Traditionally a long paddle was used styles are closely guarded secrets, passed any player can avoid them superstar contemporary designer Tom Doak considers Langford in the glass. There are also a number of to submerge the cap several times a day, down through generations of family-owned if he gauges his ability “underappreciated.” Bradley Klein of Golf Advisor contends gadgets available to hasten the process. but pump overs are more common today. wineries. In other parts of France, cuvée can correctly, so that they that the pair did not have the wealthy client base nor were Some people even suggest whirling a Clarification is the process of remov- also apply to still wines, refering to wines will make every man’s provided prime property opportunities. bottle of wine in the blender!. ing particles of expired yeast and grape blended from different vineyards or varieties. game more interesting No matter, the legend of William Langford has only grown Aging a wine allows it to mature, matter. The winemaker can simply let the Domaine, also French, means “estate” no matter what class over the decades as more golfers become exposed to his vision especially high-quality red wines. Once particulates drop to the bottom of the or “property.” Historically the term has most player he is, and offer a and genius. In a word: unforgettable. fermentation is complete, the wine is aged storage container, or the wine can be often been used in Burgundy, but shows reward commensurate in barrels or casks (usually oak). This time fined or filtered. Neither process is used up in California as well, usually when the with the player’s ability. spent in wood softens flavors and adds in some so-call “natural” wines. estate is owned by a French company. The accompanying tannins. After some months, the wine is Cooking Wine is an unnecessary Eiswein, German for “ice wine.” It is a abomination. It is made from wine you rich dessert wine made by picking grapes sketch is an attempt to bottled and further aging can occur in the bottle. If a producer chooses to bottle age, wouldn’t drink on its own, and has been that are frozen on the vine and then pressed shot hazards arranged according to this principle. The dotted it will increase a wine’s cost, as the winery heavily salted. When cooking, use the in unheated wineries before they thaw. The lines show the course taken by the ball. must maintain the inventory. Fortified wines wine you’ll be drinking with dinner, or meager but concentrated juice is quite fla- Here, there are five ways of playing the same hole, at least such as port and sherry can be, and often something equally compatible. vorful and high in sugar and acidity. These one of which is well within the ability of every golfer. The echelon are, bottle aged for years. Corked Wine has been contaminated by wines age extremely well. Canada is also arrangement of bunkers for the tee shot allows three carries of Appellation in the wine world is 2,4,6-Trichloroanosole in the cork. Detectable suited for the production of ice wine, and widely varying length. The second shot bunkers are placed so a designated growing area governed at levels as low as 30 parts per trillion, TCA now outpaces the Germans. Because of as to offer a reward proportionate to the risk taken at the tee. by rules and regulations that vary from is harmless to humans but lends the tainted extremely low yields at harvest (and some This essay is adapted from one that originally appeared in country to country. The goal can be to wine a moldy, wet cardboard odor and flavor. years cannot be harvested at all), ice wines The Chicago Evening Post of February 25, 1915. The diagram define and maintain quality, to demark a Cork taint is much less common than even are often sold in 375 ml bottles and at rather of the hole is Langford’s, with “fair green” the terminology for unique growing area, or both. ten years ago, thanks to alternative closures high prices. Unfortunately, due to climate fairway at the time. Botrytis is a fungus that can be as well as strenuous efforts to eliminate it change it is predicted that the production either friend or foe to a winemaker. 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oals come in every size from easy to the Miller, in the final group, would go in the wrong Gnear-impossible. direction down the stretch, with bogeys at the 15th Planning a trip to the North Woods for the fall? and 17th holes. And Jeray, just ahead of the final trio Easy. Planning a trip to the moon? Call Houston. would rally, beginning with a near-perfect shot on the The same is true in golf. Enter a tournament, and par-3 14th, a 177-yard 4-hybrid that stopped no more the goal is to win. than two feet under the cup, and probably closer. Nicole Jeray had that goal in mind for this year’s Birdie. Then another on the par-5 15th thanks Phil Kosin Illinois Women’s Open, and for good rea- to a 10-foot downhill putt that trickled into the hole. son. The Berwyn native had won twice before, once Then another on the par-4 16th, another 10-footer. at Mistwood in 2003, and had made it into a pair of Just like that, Jeray was among the leaders. She playoffs more recently. A consistent contender with saved par on the 17th and kicked herself for a fat more LPGA experience than any other player in the wedge shot at the last that meant settling for par and state, Jeray is always a threat to cash in. a 71, but it appeared that even with Porvasnik making “It’s my passion, playing golf tournaments. I feel birdie, there was a four-way tie for first, and for Jeray really lucky to still be able to play,” Jeray said. a chance to win a third Illinois Women’s Open title in Not just because she first made the LPGA Tour in as many decades – and in a playoff, no less. 1994. It’s her longstanding battle with narcolepsy and But the live scoring had a glitch in it. Porvasnik’s cataplexy, diagnosed two years after she joined the birdie at the first hole was clicked in as a par, and circuit, that sometimes makes life harrowing. Through couldn’t be corrected until the official card was turned good nutrition and medication, Jeray has those two in. All day long, she was really one better than the Jeray really wanted foes under control and can enjoy life, which for her scoring indicated. Porvasnik knew, and Jeray, playing revolves around golf. with her, knew. After years trying to grind out a living on the Finally, everyone knew. Porvasnik was the worthy a third title in LPGA circuit and the stepping-stone Symetra Tour, winner at 5-under 211, with Jeray, Miller and recent she joined the staff of Mistwood Golf Club late last Northwestern grad Monica Matsubura sharing second October 10 - 16, 2019 year. That meant playing in the Illinois Women’s Open a stroke back. three decades. was a home game for her. “I was charging, and then I woke up,” Jeray “It’s nice to play here at home at Mistwood,” summed things up. “I would have been nice to make Jeray said. What she didn’t say was that gave her one more.” Guess what? She an inherent advantage on the field. 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