New Golf Pro Is Former LPGA Player
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Mary Murphy finished in fifth place at the 1990 U.S. Women’s Open golf tournament. Today, the former Ladies Professional Golf Association player is the head golf pro at Kankakee Elks Country Club.
“I played on the LPGA tour for 10 years and my career lasted through the 1996 season,” she says. “I’m still a member of the LPGA tournament division and the LPGA teaching division. I love the game.”
Murphy has been working as a head golf professional ever since she left the tour, and ultimately arrived at Kankakee Elks Country Club in January 2008. She runs the course, oversees the pro shop and offers private lessons.
“The rates I charge for lessons are very reasonable – they are $35 per half hour for adults, and $15 for juniors,” she says. “My first teacher in golf was Dick Harmon, one of the all-time greats in the sport. He had a policy of not charging a lot of money, and making sure that good instruction was given to everyone, no matter what your level of play.”
Murphy says she is excited about working at Kankakee Elks Country Club, which has been around since 1902.
“It’s a challenging course in a beautiful natural setting – in a really nice part of the Midwest,” she says.
Story by Kevin Litwin
