I spent a few days last week out at the Glen Club in Glenview covering the Illinois Open.
What I love about covering golf is that you really have to hunt for the best photo. Unlike other sports where you can follow the ball to the best action most of the time, with golf, following the ball with take you to an empty green space. Golf, for me, is all about the players overcoming the course and how they deal with that, both physically and mentally. The game presents lots of little moments rather than a few big plays that tell the games story.
Here are my favorites:
Steve Buyansky is the photo editor for the Sun-Times Media West Group which includes The Beacon-News, The Courier-News and the Naperville Sun. He started as a photographer for the Beacon-News in 1983, became photo editor for The Herald-News in Joliet in 2000 and moved to the Sun-Times Media West office in 2009. He has a bachelor’s degree in Communications from Columbia College in Chicago.
A native of the western suburbs, Brian Powers attended both the College of
DuPage and Western Kentucky University for Photography and is continuing his
education at the University of The Aurora Beacon News. His professors
continue to push him (See Marianne Mather), but he considers himself one of
the lucky few who loves going to work everyday....well, ok, most days.
Michael Smart has been a photographer at The Courier-News/Sun-Times Media for over ten years. Smart grew up in Elgin before heading West to pursue adventures in photography and zoology, earning a bachelor’s degree in both fields. Upon returning to Elgin, he decided to pursue his true passion of photojournalism.
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