Honda Classic Trophy Keeps the Chicago Connection
Check this out. I’m banging through the Sun Times today at my favorite McDonald’s and Len Ziehm has a great article from the PGA Tour. Mark Wilson, who lives in Elmhurst and plays out of Cog Hill, won the Honda Classic and the accompanying $990,000 in a four man playoff. Keep in mind, Luke Donald, Evanston resident and Northwestern graduate, won this same tournament last year. We [Chicagolanders] rock the golf world and this is further proof that Chicago is the best golf town in the country.
I watched a lot of this tournament this weekend. There were very few big stars down the stretch but the drama was huge. If you’re a fair weather golf fan that watches only when Tiger and Phil play, then you’ve cheated yourself out of some great theatre.
Let me tell you something about Mark Wilson that you may not know unless you were watching on Saturday. He loves to run errands! Yeah, I’m serious. They showed a little taped interview with him about mid way through the Saturday telecast and he says basically that he loves to run errands. Actually, he couched it in these terms, “I love to check things off a list.” He goes on about how he likes it when his wife gives him a list of stuff to do and he figures out the quickest and most efficient way to get it done. Wow, these guys are good…husbands!
I can picture him running around the western suburbs grabbing a gallon of milk, picking up some duct tape from Home Depot, then hitting a bucket of balls at Cog. How cool is that? Congrats Mark.