PHGA Membership Dues
If you haven’t paid your PHGA membership dues please do soon. Pre-season has started, the scramble is in just a few days and the permanent tee times are starting April 19th.
Play has Started and Results are Available
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Off the main website menu click Golf Genius and then 2025 Season to be taken to Golf Genius for the 2025 season.
CDGA and the GHIN App
New for 2025, all CDGA members now have the ability to utilize the GHIN® app to post scores and maintain their Handicap Index. GHIN® is the official app of the USGA’s Golf Handicap Information Network. Key features include:
Score posting (total score, hole-by-hole score and hole-by-hole score with stats)
Stat tracking (number of putts, approach shot accuracy and driving accuracy)
Course maps and GPS
3D course maps and enhanced GPS features, such as putt break map, approach shot heat map, shot tracking and more*
Smart watch integration
Games and group score keeping
A customized GHIN Rewind, which annually recaps your year in golf
There are two important items to note in relation to this enhancement:
Even if you choose to enter scores using a GHIN® product, you MUST still have a CDGA profile in order to partake in other member benefits, such as Chicago District Golfer magazine, CDGA Fantasy Golf, CDGA Member Perks, CDGA-conducted competitions and more.You can still post scores and manage your Handicap Index® through CDGA.org or the My CDGA app if you wish - this is meant to be a complementary option. All scores are routed to Centralized Computation for the Handicap Index® calculation, no matter the score posting method.
New Member Incentive Program
The PHGA Board announces a New Member Incentive Program. Any Existing PHGA Member will receive a $20 award for each New Member that they recruit into the PHGA.
A New Member is defined as someone that has never been a PHGA member, pays the current year’s PHGA membership dues, has a current GHIN number and the New Member cannot be the joining member
An Existing PHGA Member is a member that has paid the current year’s membership dues and was a PHGA member in the previous year
It is requested that the New Member should fill in the referring member field on the New Member form. Otherwise the PHGA board reserves the right to validate any request for new membership credit
This program begins March 15th and will end at the end of the PHGA season
Mike Bower
Hi Members,
Here is a link to Mike Bower's Obituary! Unfortunately, it doesn't list if there will be a service or any dates or time.
If I receive any further information, I will send it out to everyone, ASAP.
https://www.giancolafuneral.com/obituary/michael-b-bower
Mark Faruzzi
Submit Pictures/Videos from your Phone
Do you have a great PHGA picture or video to share? Or something of interest happens while playing in a PHGA event? Use the new Contribute Photos (under the Photos menu option) to upload a previous taken picture/video or use your phone to take a picture/video live. The picture or video is limited in size to 10MB.
Simply complete the form (before or after your image is ready), click the + Add a File and select the source, to take a live picture or video from your phone select Take Photo or Video. Depending upon your phone settings, videos can generally be up to 20 - 30 seconds in length.
All pictures and videos will be sent to the website administrator before being posted to ensure the content is related to the PHGA.
Start 2025 with a Laugh
“I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone’s game: it’s called an eraser.” — Arnold Palmer
“They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.” — Raymond Floyd
“I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.” — Gerald R. Ford
“Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you’re not good at them.” — Roy ‘Tin Cup’ McAvoy
“If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.” — Dean Martin
“Golf is a game in which you yell fore, shoot six, and write down five.” — Paul Harvey
“Golf?! You hit down to make the ball go up. You swing left and the ball goes right. The lowest score wins. And, on top of that, the winner buys the drinks.” — Unknown
“If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” — Jack Lemmon
“The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.” — George Deukmejian
"Pressure is when you play $5 a hole with only $2 in your pocket."- Lee Trevino
Palatine Hills Closing for 2024 on November 18
Last day the course will be open is November 17. Closed for the season starting November 18.
Palatine Cup - Steamrollers 150 over the Bombers 120
Steamrollers 150 over the Bombers 120. Great weather set up by Steve Fallon and a great group of guys. I wanted to highlight Steve Gillette, Art Rush, Ken Mattuck and Phil Frawley who were key contributors and the entire team. The greens were fast and the Couse was in great shape. Thanks again to everybody who participated.
Bill Knudsen.
Know Your Golf Genius Results
The July 4th tournament was a success thanks to Jim Romanek’s and Jim Jessogne’s efforts as tournament directors.
On the scoring end we had an oddity that was confirmed by Golf Genius support as an expected result. Specifically the Player Purse Summary for 4th did not show the full amount won by individuals during the day. Upon further investigation it was determined that the player purse did not include the 36 and 54 hole payout to those that won money by participating in the 4th of July 36 and 54 hole tournaments.
This, per Golf Genius, is as designed, the Player Purse Summary only includes the results of the round play that day. Since the 36 and 54 hole tournaments are multi-day tournaments, even though their final round was the same day, it’s excluded from the Player Purse Summary for that day. Make sense? Not to us, so we submitted an enhancement request to Golf Genius to change the purse summary to include all tournament results that complete on the day displayed.
Anyway, the 36 and 54 hole tournament results are included in the Season League Leaderboard under Completed Mulit-Round Tournaments for each individual name. For instance, if I click on Ken Emerich I see his payout from the July 4th 36 under Completed Multi-Round Tournaments. Also, if you click on any individual name in blue you can then expand more details by clicking the (+) sign next to the round date to see the details.
PHGA at the Special Olympics Charity Golf Scramble
On June 6, 2024, Palatine Hills hosted the annual "Special Olympics Charity Golf Scramble" which supports the SLSF (Special Leisure Services Foundation) in support of recreation for children and adults with disabilities. Over 114 golfers joined in the scramble supporting this cause.
For several years Palatine Hills has utilized PHGA volunteers to manage 3 course stations in cooking hotdogs and supplying refreshments for the participating players.
This year our volunteers were Bob Silver, John Helpap, Rich Pipala, George Nassif, Jack Lloyd (and wife), Rick Green, Dan Hengels, Jim Haffey, Ken Emmerich (DeChambeau), and Dan Stockwell. The later 3 volunteers (pictured) claimed the best hotdogs (chili cheese dogs) and proprietary "Birdie Juice" as participants teed off on hole number 13.
