Happy almost-winter from the Illinois Valley Country Club golf course!This week has been fairly quiet at the course due to the wintery weather, so I will be giving a small report on golf course news and then describe one of the most popular holes at Bandon Dunes Golf Course, where[Read More…]

I have had a few requests to translate the golfers’ nomenclature so here is a little dictionary defining certain terms and slang that us golfers use.“FAIRWAY” -the center part of the playing surface, shortly cut grass, the easiest surface on which to hit the ball. The fairway is marked with[Read More…]

Greetings, from the Illinois Valley Country Club Golf Course!In this week’s action, we had five guys show up for Monday night skins. The winners on Monday were Todd with three skins, Graham with two and Dalton with three. KPs were won by Todd, Graham and I.Wednesday afternoon was so warm[Read More…]

Happy autumn from the Illinois Valley Country Club golf course!In last weeks’ action, the Monday night guys had a very small turnout due to the “iffy” weather conditions looking like rain. It actually turned out to be really nice but as the sun receded over Woodcock Mountain the temperature dropped[Read More…]

Greetings from the Rogue Valley Airport this week as we are travelling to Mesquite Nevada for our annual pro-am in the desert.This year we have Todd, Terry, D’Lynn, Troy, Colby and Scott coming from IVCC. We are meeting another 39 golfers to play the extremely challenging desert courses. We have[Read More…]

Hello from the fabulous Illinois Valley Country Club golf course!Fall is bringing increasing numbers of lovely orange, yellow and tan leaves scattered and sometimes piled on the greens and fairways. The stiff pine needles carpet the greens and provide some interesting putting lines. Sometimes the needles fall vertically and stick[Read More…]

Hello after a week’s absence. Sunday night skins took a toll on me last week and I missed my deadline.The Golf Course is beginning with a new format for Monday nights. We are playing skins on Mondays until Men’s Summer league begins again.So two weeks ago, Monday Skins were won[Read More…]

Happy fall and fall weather from the Illinois Valley Country Club. The course is looking very pretty with the green areas expanding outward from the fairways and into the roughs and the trees beginning to change to the lovely oranges, gold, tan and browns that Autumn brings. Very soon we[Read More…]

Hello from the Illinois Valley Country Club golf course.Men’s Club will be playing for final standings this week, leaders today, top ten only, next week, full field placings:Taylor’s Sausage1Taylor’s Sausage2/Valley FabricationJerry’s TowingFLSBud BrosKALA SeafoodRobbins BrothersJohn L Scott RealtyKerby ElectricSelma Second HandWednesday night skins had a nice group of about 11[Read More…]

by Terry Taylor Hello from the Illinois Valley Country Club Golf Course.Last week was hectic, so I missed the deadline for publication, there was a lot of activity but not enough room in the paper to put both weeks’ news.In Men’s Club standings:Taylor’s Sausage1-188Taylors2/Valley Fabrication-173Robbins Brothers-169FLA making a late-season charge-152Kerby[Read More…]