Chicago Highlands’ 5th hole. Photo from Golf Advisor
This week I wrote about golf, more specifically about golf
courses in and around Illinois. Among them are Chicago Highlands in suburban
Westchester and Chicago’s Harborside
International.
Also of interest is “Tee Time,” the two-page review of
golf’s past in Springfield in Springfield Entertainment: A Pictorial History by Curtis Mann, Edward Russo and Melinda Garvert.
The entry on Illini Country Club at
the indispensable local history site Sangamon Link has information
about that club’s course and its progenitor at Pasfield Park. The designer of
the Illini course was Scotsman Tom Bendelo, who also
laid out public and private courses at Champaign, Urbana, Bloomington,
Galesburg, Monmouth, Decatur, as well as the original versions of the three courses
at one of the most famous of Illinois golf venues, the Medinah
Country Club near Bloomingdale in DuPage County.
This article appears in Jun 1-7, 2017.
