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Long before a video of Cody Gribble went viral from the 2017 Arnold Palmer Invitational, when Gribble tapped an alligator on the tail sending the reptile dartin

It’s the midpoint of the BMW Championship on the PGA Tour.  The BMW is the second stage of the Fed Ex Cup playoffs with an eventual $18 million payday to the last golf professional standing next Sunday at the Tour Championship in Atlanta.  The BMW is being contested at Olympia Fields in suburban south Chicago.  Olympia Fields is a Willie Park Jr. design that first opened for play in 1915.  Park not only won a pair of British Opens in 1887 and 1889 but also designed highly regarded Maidstone in Long Island, Sunningdale in London, and 170 other golf courses.  Olympia Fields has hosted fou...

The golf-crazed market of Chicago once feared it would get the big names only every other year

Good news for Chicago: The golf-crazed market that once feared it would get the big names only every other year now gets two tournaments in a month. Of course, the BMW Championship that starts Thursday and LIV Golf-Chicago on Sept. 22-24 have far more differences than similarities. Olympia Fields is best known for hosting four men's majors and one that used to be considered a major (Western Open); Rich Harvest Farms is best known for hosting the Solheim Cup and the Palmer Cup.

The golf-crazed market of Chicago once feared it would get the big names only every other year. Now it has two tournaments in a month. One of them is the BMW Championship. The other is LIV Golf. They …