Romeoville, IL – Mistwood Golf Club in Chicago, a premier Midwest golf experience and destination, will open on April 25 for its first full season following its three-year multi-million dollar renovation project.
This major golf course project has been one of the significant golf stories in the Chicago area over the past few years and a culmination of a dream for owner and local businessman Jim McWethy.
“This renovation was due to my love for the game and we are very excited to now be opening for a full season and sharing this wonderful new golf experience with Chicago area golfers,” McWethy said. “I could not be happier with how everything has come together and for now being recognized as one of the premier golf facilities in the Chicago area.”
Soon after the course renovation was complete in 2013 the awards followed. GOLF Magazine awarded Mistwood with its “Best U.S. Renovation You Can Play” listing for 2013 as part of the magazine’s annual Best New Courses report published in the January 2014 issue. Golf Digest architectural editor Ron Whitten also recognized Mistwood as one of 2013’s top remodeled courses on golfdigest.com.
The long-time home of the prestigious Illinois Women’s Open golf tournament, Mistwood closed early in the golf seasons of 2011 and 2012, and opened late in 2013 enabling Michigan-based golf course architect Ray Hearn, the original architect from 1998, to complete the award-winning renovation work that included strategic improvements to every hole on the course.
Hearn’s work also included the addition of 20 stacked sod-wall bunkers; unique and impressive trademark hazards in Scotland and Ireland not normally seen in traditional American golf design.
“We fine-tuned and polished a gem,” Hearn said.
The facility renovation also included the addition of the new Mistwood Performance Center. With its Irish-themed stone architecture and warm dark wood interior that features a perfect combination of 11 climate controlled stations, two indoor heated bays for year-round practice, 32 outdoor stations, a custom club-fitting room, putting room and a repair and club-building center, this teaching center has become the buzz in Chicago for golf instruction. A full-service bar along with eight flat-screen televisions was fully developed as a great place to hang out and practice.
For practice and swing analysis, the facility offers high-tech teaching aides like TrackMan ball flight, SAM Putt Lab, and Quintic ball motion putting system making it a leader in golf teaching technology and one of the top facilities of its kind in the country.
Golf Range Magazine noticed and in January included Mistwood’s practice facility in its listing of the Top 50 Public Ranges in the United States.
McWethy didn’t stop with the award-winning facility and golf course improvements. He also brought in nationally acclaimed golf instructor Jim “Doc” Suttie, annually one of America’s 50 Best Teachers according to Golf Digest and part of GOLF Magazine’s Top 100 Teacher list who in 2000 was named the PGA National Teacher of the Year.
Mistwood’s Performance Center, whose teaching roster also includes John Platt, the 2011 Illinois PGA Teacher of the Year, Mike Baldwin and Chris Ioriatti, can easily claim the best teaching facility and technology in the Chicago area to go with a premier award-winning and polished championship golf course.
For more information about Mistwood, golf rates, and instructional programs, visit www.mistwoodgc.com.
Contact:
Mistwood Golf Club
Daniel Phillips PGA, Director of Golf
dphillips@mistwoodgc.com
(815) 254-3333
Fusion Media Strategies
Kevin Frisch
kevin@fusionmediastrategies.com
(989) 614-0241
