The Golf Channel Academy at Cog Hill is part of a collection of distinguished PGA and LPGA professionals from around the country and Canada at one of the finest teaching facilities in the world. All are PGA Professionals with extensive experience.
Weeks heads up an all-star cast of instructors, which also includes Lee Miller, Louise Davis, Carol Rhoads, Trey Van Dyke and Randy Heinrich.
In addition, Weeks invented and patented The Dynamic Impact Indicator, a putting improvement device, and has worked with more than 75 PGA Tour players since 2006. Also known for his work with juniors, 60 of his students have played college golf. He is currently ranked third on Golf Digest's Top Instructors in Illinois list and was a finalist for 2010 National PGA Teacher of the Year Award. Weeks has taught at Cog Hill for more than 20 years and earned three Illinois PGA Instructor of the Year Awards (2005, 2007, 2009). In either case, Cog Hill is also home the Golf Channel Academy at the Learning Center, headed up by one of the country's top instructors, Kevin Weeks. So a visit to the Golf Channel Academy, located at Cog Hill's famous Barn, might be in order before playing it, or you might want to wait until afterwards. Of course, if you're going to play Dubsdread, you're going to want to bring your "A" game. Plus, those who book the packages receive a $25 Nike gift card to be used in the golf shop, range balls, and an engraved Cog Hill bag tag.Ī little help with your game from the Golf Channel Academy One night of hotel accommodations at the Marriott-Burr Ridge (up to $200 value) based on double occupancy.Around 6,400 yards from the tips, it won't overwhelm you, but it is still a good test. 3 is a Wilson design that opened in 1963 and actually incorporated some of the original holes on No. Challenging, but not overpowering, the course is a great warmup for the tougher tests at Cog Hill. 1 is the original course at Cog Hill, first designed by McIntosh in 1927 and later redone by Dick Wilson. Together with Dubsdread, the two courses have been named among the best two-course combinations in the world by Links Magazine.
Amateur qualifier, three new holes - a par 3, par 4, and par 5 - were constructed to create the present-day "U.S. Unique to the course is the closing 19th hole, a challenging par 3 that offers a testy putting surface and perfect opportunity to settle any matches or presses. Opened in 1929 (yep, the same year as the crash), this championship layout, designed by David McIntosh and Bert Coghill, is routed through wooded rolling terrain with ravines on nearly half the holes. It's ranked among America's top 100 courses by both Golf Digest and Golf magazines. Originally designed by Dick Wilson and Joe Lee, the course was renovated by Rees Jones in 2008 and remains as difficult as it beautiful. Dubsdread, added by the Jemsek Family in 1964, is the former home of the Western Open and the BMW Championship. 4, better known as the Dubsdread Course ($155 value).
From one-day packages starting at just $77, to overnight packages that include the famous Dubsdread Course, there is something for every golfer.Ĭog Hill's premium package is The Home Run Package, which starts at $355 and includes a round of each of the four courses. With four courses and several options to choose from, Cog Hill Golf & Country Club near Chicago offers golf packages to fit every budget and golf vacation.
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