Chicago's golf tournament schedule for 2007 might not be in the same manner empty after all.

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According to sources, the Ladies PGA Tour will get back to the area in May or July The LPGA has a sponsor in place and will convoy the tournament with its allow staffers.

The solitary question is where the occurrence will be played. The search has been whittled to sum of two units courses, one of which is Bolingbrook Golf association The LPGA sent a delegation to Bolingbrook sum of two units weeks ago.

"We're surpassingly very interested," Bolingbrook general manager Terry Hanley said. He provided no details.

Bolingbrook has armed forceed the Tom Dreesen Celebrity Invitational the last three years, with the greatest in quantity recent staging concluding on Wednesday. That has been its biggest conclusion so far. The public facility has an Arthur Hills-designed course and single in kind of the best clubhouses in the Chicago area. It also might have another 18 pits under construction soon. John Daly has been staying at Bolingbrook during the PGA Championship and is designing a layout that will measure 8400 yards and be called "Big Stick." It would be built onward what is now farmland forward the north side of the existing course.

"John's done his third rendition for the course, and we've had more [i]or[/i] less great discussions with him," Hanley said. "Now, it's just a matter of acquiring the land."

The LPGA, formed in 1950 has had an off-and-on relationship in Chicago. Its last sum of two units tournament ventures here were done from outside promoters. Oak Brook innkeepered the first in 1994, then Naperville's White Eagle took it the nearest two years. Stonebridge, in Aurora, armyed the more recent Kellogg-Keebler Classic. It had a three-year hurry that ended in 2004 with Annika Sorenstam winning all three times.

Rich Harvest Farms, in Sugar woodland will host the Solheim chalice -- the women's version of the Ryder beaker -- in 2009. The LPGA wants a tour stop here before that major occurrence and would like to take advantage of the gap left by dint of a change in the PGA Tour schedule. The Western unclose a July fixture at wheedle Hill since 1991, was held for the last time this year and its replacement, the BMW Championship, will assume September dates in 2007

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