Brandt Snedeker and Geoff Ogilvy have been named captains for the 2026 Presidents Cup at Medinah No. 3, a legendary venue freshly reimagined by Ogilvy’s design firm, OCM. The Midwest will once again host one of golf’s premier international events – this time on a course built for match play and made for drama.
The South Course at Eagle Ridge blends stunning scenery with a challenging layout. Accuracy is key on this must-play Midwest gem. Read our review for all the details!
The Harborside International Golf Center is a fantastic prototype for municipal metropolitan golf, featuring links-style Dick Nugent designs on the Port and Starboard courses.
The crown jewel of Eagle Ridge Resort’s four golf courses, The General delivers high drama with a thrilling layout.
Designed by Roger Packard, the North Course at Eagle Ridge provides an absolute rollercoaster ride full of golf holes.
Though close in proximity, Eagle Ridge couldn’t feel less like Southeast Wisconsin. Its great bluffs adjacent to the Mississippi River provide the remote area with incredible topography, and the drive in, friendly staff, terrific golf and wonderfully quaint location lend it oodles of charm.
One of the top hidden gems I’ve found in a while, Glen Flora in Waukegan, IL is emerging as one of the top private club options on the North Shore of the Greater Chicago area, thanks to a thoughtful renovation led by Samuel Beckman of Emergency 9 Golf.
My favorite of the three courses at Medinah Country Club, Course 1 features great design, terrific routing and the best of all worlds: A lot of wide, forgiving fairways with strategic playability, great par 3’s and 5’s and a little bit of tree-lined parkland style thrown in for good measure.
One of the top 100 overall golf courses in the country, Black Sheep Golf Club outside of Chicago, Illinois, is a men’s only private club with a fantastic logo and an even better golf course.
Boasting 27 holes of linksy David Esler designed golf, owner Vince Solano has successfully developed an out-of-this-world-good golf experience with…
The journey of Mistwood Golf Club over the past 20 years has been well documented and for good reason: This is a fantastic public golf destination and an incredibly well run operation. The first thing you’ll notice at Mistwood is its facilities. The bag drop is just outside the pro shop, downstairs from their Scottish-style…
Golf Course Review: The Preserve at Oak Meadows (IL).
Greg Martin’s recently reopened redesign of Oak Meadows (fka “Soaked Meadows”) plays a terrific role in water retention/utility… While being an awesome Illinois golf course.
Following a tour of the newly renovated No. 2 course with Rees Jones, we were treated to an out-of-this-world golf experience at Medinah Country Club’s Course 3 – one of the country’s greatest major event hosts.
An introduction to Rees Jones’s newly renovated Course 2 at Medinah Country Club outside of Chicago, IL.
A wonderful media day experience with Rees Jones and the accommodating staff of Medinah CC on May 24, 2017.
This trend-setting new course is set to debut in Summer, 2017.
Packers vs. Bears. Brewers vs. Cubs. Badgers vs. Fighting Illini. Tollways and terrible traffic vs. free highways and backroads. Wisconsin and Illinois folks don’t always get along, but we do all love golf. For the past twenty years, golf writers from Wisconsin have contested golf writers from Illinois in the annual “Writer’s Cup,” a 27-hole…
TPC Deere Run Course Rankings: Golf Digest: #25 IllinoisGolfWeek: #6 Illinois publicGolf.com: #4 Illinois public Designer: DA Weibring (2000) Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend Media Day at TPC Deere Run in Moline, Illinois, to kick off the one month ramp-up to the 2013 John Deere Classic. Last year’s tournament ended in spectacular fashion,…
Harborside International, Portside Course Rankings: GolfWeek: #14 Illinois public Designer: Dick Nugent (1996) With two highly renowned courses, each on GolfWeek’s top 15 in the state of Illinois list, Harborside International provides a fantastic links golfing experience. I had the pleasure of playing their Port course, which is rated as Illinois’ fifteenth rated course you…
As all of my golf buddies know, maybe my favorite course within an hour of the Milwaukee area is ThunderHawk, located within minutes of the Wisconsin/Illinois border in Beach Park. It seems like every time I have the opportunity to play ThunderHawk, it is either early Spring or late Fall, so being a little earlier…
Former host of the BMW Championship and Western Open, Cog Hill No. 4 Dubsdread is one of the most challenging courses in the Midwest.
Shepherd’s Crook first got on my radar last year when it was named GolfWeek’s 13th best municipal golf course in the country, one spot behind its neighbor, ThunderHawk, and 22 spots above Washington County Golf Course in Hartford, Wisconsin. I have been intrigued to check it out, to say the least. Just across the…
Just across the Wisconsin/Illinois border is a fantastic Robert Trent Jones, Jr. course that over the past two years has been rated as a top twelve municipal course in the country, ThunderHawk. To those who know it, ThunderHawk is the best kept secret in the Milwaukee/Chicago area. The question is: How do golf enthusiasts…
