Club professionals rarely have an impact in the PGA Championship, but this week one might. Chris French, the head professional at Aldeen -- a public course operated by the Rockford Park District -- is certainly playing well enough going into the event that tees off on Thursday.
Club professionals rarely have an impact in the PGA Championship, but this week one might. Chris French, the head professional at Aldeen -- a public course operated by the Rockford Park District -- is certainly playing well enough going into the event that tees off on Thursday at Oak Hill in Rochester, New York.
The good times didn't stop there. French won the Illinois Section's first major of the season, taking the IPGA Match Play title at Bull Valley in Woodstock last week. He did it by taking two dramatic victories over players from Mistwood, in Romeoville, in his first and last matches. The PGA Championship brings out the world's best players. Justin Thomas won last year at Southern Hills in Oklahoma, edging the now injured Will Zalatoris in a playoff. Mito Pereira had dominated that tournament until putting his tee shot in the water at the 72nd hole, dropping him into a tie for third. Pereira is one of 18 players on the controversial LIV Tour who are in the field at Oak Hill.
MINOR BLIP FOR ILLINI: Tommy Kuhl, a fifth-year senior at Illinois, shot a course record 62 at Illini Country Club in Springfield during last week's U.S. Open local qualifying round. That sounds great, but it wasn't. Kuhl was watching a playoff involving teammate Adrien Dumont de Chassart with another Illini player, Jason Buchanan. Buchanan mentioned how hard it was putting on aerated greens. That made Kuhl"feel sick to my stomach.
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