Mou – insert black rectangle for video…can you make this larger and put it close to the image of Alex Chejka The Senior PGA will be returning to the Golf Club at Harbor Shores for the fifth time. Roger Champman from England won in 2012, Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie won in 2014, Rocco Mediate 2016 and England’s Paul Broadhurst won in 2018, the last time the tournament was held here. International players have won seven of the last nine Senior PGA Championships contested. With Bernhard Langer a consistent winner that trend could continue. Located in the Southwestern corner of Michigan on the Lake Michigan coast, Harbor Shores is a beach, golf and residential waterfront community. Benton Harbor had fallen upon hard times and when Jack Nicklaus was contracted to design a unique golf test it has brought an economic rebirth to the area. Only 90 minutes from Chicago, it is a popular vacation getaway for urbanites from the country’s third largest city to escape for beach time and great golf. The course has proved to be a true test for the world’s best golfers. Holes 1-6 are inland. The 7th, 8th and 9th holes traverse sand dunes and provide dramatic Lake Michigan views. Nos. 10-13 wind through Michigan woodlands with rolling hills. The Paw Paw River and Ox Creek wetlands affect play on the four finishing holes 14-18. The diverse terrain creates a unique blend of challenges for the golfers. Benton Harbor was a blue-collar manufacturing town and the industrial decline in the 1980’s and 1990’s drastically affected the town and the surrounding area. Urban blight, abandoned
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