The championship is part of the Korn Ferry Tour, a development tour for the PGA Tour. Park City High School alum Mitchell Schow qualified in a playoff for the event Monday.

A couple of handfuls of Rockford-area golf courses have died and disappeared over the years. Only one ever came back. And it ...

Like an errant tee shot into the pond, golf was going under. Courses, overbuilt during the boom years, were closing.