Golf

Riverside Healthcare golfers helped raise more than $218,000 to assist behavioral health services during the organization's 48th annual golf outing on Friday at the Kankakee Country Club.

Incoming junior Hall golfer Joseph Perez shot his first career hole in one from the white tees on the No. 3 hole at Spring Creek on Monday. He didn’t have to tell his coach, Mason Kimberly, about it because he was playing with him.

Jamie Schmitt won the 77th annual Pine Hills Invitational at Pine Hills Golf Course in Ottawa on Sunday. Schmitt, after shooting a 2-under-par 70 on Saturday, roared to a second-round 66 to win his first championship at the event.

The McHenry Country Club has been sold for almost $2 million to a local businessman and philanthropist, and the McHenry City Council had a special meeting to grant a liquor license.

The Brent Wadsworth Alumni Golf Outing typically raises $25,000, which funds fall mini-grants for students and staff at Joliet Township High School District 204.

The CC2 Forever Foundation will host its annual Strike Out Cancer event Saturday at Flink Field in Lockport. The foundation was founded after 18-year-old Connor Christian died from an aggressive brain tumor.

Higher costs and economic uncertainty cited as reasons John Whiteside Memorial Golf Outing currently falling shot of fundraising goals needed for the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Memorial Squad.

The JTHS 24th Annual Brent Wadsworth Alumni Golf Outing benefits students and staff at District 204 in Joliet.

A Swedish study suggests a link between playing golf and longer life expectancy, highlighting the sport’s health benefits.

Revenue generated by all three golf courses run by the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County totaled $8.38 million last year, the agency’s director of golf said Tuesday.

Proceeds benefit the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood that provides honorably discharged veterans a military ceremonial burial service at no charge for families that request it.

La Grange resident Jack Harrington recently was named a recipient of the Evans Scholarahip

Downers Grove North High School senior Colin Finn earned a free ride to college as a recipient of the Chick Evans Scholarship

Lakemoor trustees have voted to annex a golf course so that the property can be redeveloped as a solar farm, despite reservations by some nearby residents.

Matthew Hicks, who also teaches building trades at the Whiteside Area Career Center and owns a construction business, built the 13-hole course. It will have a grand opening Saturday, April 12.

Kankakee area tourism continues to grow, visitors seek the outdoors.

Two best friends took an inside joke and turned it into a successful business.

The 2024 Times All-Area Girls and Boys Golf Honor Roll, a list filled with postseason advancers and tournament champions.

Fieldcrest senior Jessica Schultz put together a solid and consistent season this fall, reached her goal of playing in the state finals, and has been selected as the 2024 Times Girls Golfer of the Year.

For his steady play, his leadership, his consistent improvement over a four-year varsity career and another fantastic postseason performance, Ottawa High senior Chandler Creedon is the 2024 Times Boys Golfer of the Year.

Take a look at photographer Alex T. Paschal's favorite sports photos in the Sauk Valley for 2024.

X-Golf Shorewood is geared to golfers of all levels: experienced, beginning golfers and even non-golfers, according to owner Jeff Bass.

With the fall high school sports season over, check out scenes from the last few months in the Sauk Valley.

Hinsdale Central senior and Wisconsin commit Elyssa Abdullah, who won the conference and regional championships, took second at sectionals and was sixth at state, leading the Red Devils to third as a team, is the Suburban Life Girls Golfer of the Year. Her Q&A with Joshua Welge.

Hinsdale Central senior Dru Devata, who took third place individually at state and led the Red Devils to the Class 3A state championship, is the Suburban Life Boys Golf Player of the Year. Here is his Q&A with Sports Editor Joshua Welge.

Oswego Co-Op freshman Alli Wiertel, who tied for fourth at the Class 2A state tournament with an even-par score of 144 over two days, is the Record Newspapers girls golf Player of the Year. Here is her Q&A with Sports Editor Joshua Welge.

In her second season on the links this year, Princeton junior Reese Reviglio knocked off 4.7 strokes off her average for an area-best 51. She advanced to sectionals as the fourth individual qualifier at the Class 1A Seneca Regional.

Charity golf outing raises funds for Hope Cancer Wellness Center and Pink Heals of the Sauk Valley.

Hinsdale Central senior Dru Devata, who shot a two-day score of 141 to tie for third place individually, leading Hinsdale Central to the Class 3A state golf championship on a fifth-score tiebreaker, is the Suburban Life Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Read about him here.

The IHSA Class 2A champion Ottawa boys golf team knew they had a great team, but an IHSA state championship team?

Ottawa High School’s wait for sporting glory is over, as the boys golf team won the Class 2A final for the school's first state title. Burlington Central was third, while Marmion's Regan Konen won a three-man playoff to repeat as Class 2A individual champion.

Hall senior Landen Plym and Bureau Valley junior Wyatt Novotny have been to the IHSA State Golf Finals before

The Bureau County pair of aces are taking their friendly rivalry to state for the first time.

Gilligan’s 71 helped the Tigers finish with a 307, a stroke better than Geneva’s 308. Both of those schools are advancing to the IHSA state final tournament Oct. 18-19 at The Den at Fox Creek Golf Course in Bloomington along with sectional champion Hinsdale Central.

Area golfers compete in the IHSA Boys’ Class 3A Sectional Golf Tournament Monday, Oct. 7 2024, at Randall Oaks Golf Club in West Dundee.

A look at Bureau County area boys golf sectionals

The village of Shorewood says X-Golf, an indoor golf simulator experience, will open “very soon” at 1004 Brook Forest Ave.

Riverside-Brookfield junior Gavin Sharenow, who shot a 4-over-par 75 to tie for second place, helping lead Riverside-Brookfield to the Upstate Eight Conference championship, is the Suburban Life Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is his Q&A with Sports Editor Josh Welge.

The Riverdale Rams posted their second consecutive regional golf win on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024 winning the team title at the 1A Lanark Regional with a 305 score. Fulton finished second with a 314 and Erie-Prophetstown third with a 339. All three teams will play at the Rockford Lutheran Sectional on Monday, Oct. 7 at the Mauh-Nah-Tee-See Club.

The Ottawa boys golf team — led by individual champion Chandler Creedon — won its sixth straight regional title at Wednesday's Class 2A La Salle-Peru Regional at Senica's Oak Ridge Golf Club. Burlington Central and Mendota also advanced to next week's Kaneland Sectional.

Hampshire, Crystal Lake Central, Jacobs, Dundee=Crown, Huntley, and Cary-Grove golfers competed in the IHSA Class 3A Dundee-Crown Regional golf tournament on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024 at Randall Oaks Golf Club in West Dundee.

Sterling, Dixon, Rock Falls and others met Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024 at Emerald Hill for a 2A boys golf regional.

The Seneca girls golf team, as well as Fieldcrest's Jessica Schultz, St. Bede's Anna Cryocki, and the Princeton trio of Reese Reviglio, Hanna Claiborne and Halli Peterson, all advanced out of Tuesday's Class 1A Seneca Regional at Morris Country Club.

Byron, Dixon, and Oregon finished one, two and three at the girls 1A regional at Wolf Hollow Golf Course in Lena on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. Those teams advanced to the Byron Sectional, set for Monday, Oct. 7.

Here's a look at the upcoming boys golf regionals for Bureau County area teams, including Bureau Valley, Hall, Princeton and St. Bede.

Area teams from Lincoln-Way East, Lincoln-Way West, Lincoln-Way Central, Joliet Central, Minooka, Streator, La Salle-Peru and Ottawa competed in the Class 2A Regional golf meet on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024 at Senica's Oak Ridge in La Salle.

Area golfers compete in the Fox Valley Conference Girls Golf Tournament on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, at Crystal Woods Golf Club in Woodstock.

Area golfers compete in the Fox Valley Conference Boys Golf Tournament on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, at RedTail Golf Club in Lakewood.

Riverside-Brookfield, in its first season in the Upstate Eight Conference, won the league's boys golf tournament title on Monday, with R-B's Gavin Sharenow second on a scorecard tiebreaker. Glenbard South was fourth.

The Streator boys golf team, led by individual champion sophomore Jack Studnicki, won the Illinois Central Eight Conference meet for the second straight year on Monday at Wolf Creek in Pontiac. Coal City and Coalers senior Kylee Kennell captured the girls titles.