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JD Classic Pro-Am is Next

WVIK News

The annual Pro-Am will be held Wednesday at the John Deere Classic. Groups of amateurs will play a round with a professional golfer.

Then the actual John Deere Classic PGA tournament will get underway on Thursday at TPC at Deere Run in Silvis. 156 players will compete for 5.8 million dollars in prize money.

The final round ends on Sunday afternoon. 

The Golf Channel will provide coverage of the tournament, each afternoon, while CBS Sports will broadcast during the final two rounds, Saturday and Sunday. 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.