Tinley Park hosts golf expo
By Mike Nolan mnolan@southtownstar.com February 14, 2012 8:08PM
Attendees at a golf expo this weekend in Tinley Park can enter a raffle with a prize of free golf for a lifetime at Orland Park's Silver Lake Country Club, shown above. | Supplied photo.
Tinley Park Golf Expo
When: From noon to 7 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Where: Tinley Park Convention Center, 18451 Convention Center Drive.
Cost: Admission is $5 on Friday and $10 on Saturday and Sunday. Children under 12 are free when accompanied by a paid adult. No charge for active military personnel who present a photo ID.
For more info: Visit
tinleyparkgolfexpo.com.
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Updated: March 16, 2012 8:11AM
While the weekend is a time for guys to putter around the house, organizers of the Tinley Park Golf Expo hope they’ll decide instead to putt inside the Tinley Park Convention Center.
Organizers of the expo, which they hope will become an annual event, will try to woo golf fans with the chance to see, as well as get a grip on, the latest drivers and irons from major manufacturers. The expo starts Friday and continues through the weekend.
The convention hall will also feature a large, indoor driving range sponsored by Taylor Made, and there will be areas set aside for putting and chipping. Also scheduled are longest-drive and longest-putt competitions.
More than 70 exhibitors have signed up to attend, including 17 area golf courses and golf equipment retailers such as Bob’s Custom Clubs, Budget Golf, Cam Golf and Palos Golf.
Throughout the weekend there will also be appearances by former White Sox pitcher Billy Pierce, former Bears quarterback Bob Avellini and former world long-drive champion Joe Hajduch.
At its booth at the expo, Silver Lake Country Club will offer a no-cost raffle, with the winner entitled to a lifetime of free golf at the Orland Park course.
Also, for the cost of admission, show attendees will get a free year’s subscription to their choice of either Golf Digest or Golf World.
Greg Buban, chairman of the golf expo, said the idea started to percolate more than a year ago after he and good friend Bert Coghill, owner of Silver Lake, went to an open house at the convention center.
Buban said the region hadn’t been home to a golf show in many years, noting that the last shows of any heft, in Oak Lawn, were about 20 years ago.
“The south suburbs have long been in need of a full-service golf show to provide information as well as entertainment,” he said.
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