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The golf business these days seems to be an old man's game. Mowing grass and selling putters doesn't seem to interest young entrepreneurs much.
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In these troubled times for private country clubs, some facilities are welcoming the public through the front door.
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Downstate courses make a nice road trip for Chicago-area golfers looking to start the season early, or to keep playing after snow covers their local links.
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A surprising number of public golf courses around Chicago got their start as private facilities.
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The little Indiana burg of French Lick—basketball legend Larry Bird's hometown, south of Indianapolis—won acclaim a few years ago as the home of the massive, new 8,100-yard Pete Dye Course,…
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Chicago's exurban frontier is rich in rural charms, among them small, easily overlooked golf courses supported by locals but largely unknown to others.
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There were plenty of rumors in recent years about the renaissance of golf at Phillips Park in Aurora, but who could believe them? For most of its life since its founding in 1927, Phillips was dismissed by…
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The Quad Cities have just graduated to the ranks of serious weekend destinations for Chicago-area golfers, alongside places like Galena and Lake Geneva and Kohler in Wisconsin.
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When we visited Poplar Creek Country Club in Hoffman Estates three years ago, my buddies and I gave kudos to the facility's fine layout, cheap prices and busy instructional program.
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To golfers headed up Route 47 to Lake Geneva and other points north, Crystal Woods Golf Club on the west side of the highway in Woodstock has always been a familiar, although rarely tested, sight.
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Private Point O' Woods Golf and Country Club in Benton Harbor, Mich., struggling to attract members and muster weekday play, will open to the public in more ways this summer.
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