2012 GCAM Tour -Chicago South Season gets Underway

The 2012 Golf Channel AM Tour season officially began in October of 2011 and starts back up again on Sunday April 22, 2012 at Gleneagels CC in Lemont.  There is plenty of excitement as we prepare for the season to start up again.

The Chicago South Tour Members have another goal and that is to make the Chicago South Team. Players will compete not only to win their flight over the weekend, but earn Golf Galaxy Gift Cards which will be accumulated and used to rank the player for the right to represent their flight in the Chicago Ryder Cup for Chicago South.  Chicago North has won 2010 and 2011, it is time for the Chicago South Tour to step up to prevent the Chicago North from winning for the third time.  The talent is there but not always available, but this year with the tournament in Oak Brook, hopefully that will change the situation as well as the time of the event.

Chicago South members who competed in October have a head start in their respective flight ranking. There is plenty of time for players to earn a spot on the team with 14 events to compete in. The Chicago Ryder Cup is a 48 player team event between Chicago North (24 players) and Chicago South (24 players). The members who make the team get 36 holes of Ryder Cup style golf, shirt and lunch at NO cost. Part of every tournament entry fee goes toward funding the Chicago Ryder Cup. Here are the rankings as we get ready to start up again:

Clay Koenig    Snead   $225
Bill Schump    Sr. Palmer  $80

Clay has the strongest start of any Chicago Player (North or South), but there is plenty of time to make a run at the top two spots within each flight.