Doug Bauman of Lakewood, the club professional at Biltmore Country Club in North Barrington, has spent his life around the golf course. The 58-year-old regularly competes in local competitions. Most recently, on May 28, he won the Illinois PGA Senior Match Play Championship at Shoreacres Country Club in Lake Bluff. He finished 1 up on Jim Sobb in the final match to claim his second-consecutive Illinois PGA Senior Match Play Title.
I really got into golf when my family moved to Racine, Wisconsin. I had no pals to run around with, so my parents bought me a pass to the golf course. I started going out there in the mornings, and I met other kids there. I spent two or three summers where that’s all we did. We played golf and came in and had lunch and putted for dimes on the putting green and then went out and played again. I got fairly good in my seventh- and eighth-grade years.
