Here's the thing about competitive golf: most of us spend our lives reading about it.
We follow the rankings. We track the leaderboards. We watch the players we'll be bragging about in ten years. And then we go back to our Saturday nassau and tell ourselves that's close enough.
On July 13, it doesn't have to be.
The Malbon Buckets Cup Tour brings Event 06 to Conway Farms in Lake Forest, Illinois — a Tom Fazio design that's hosted the pros. Eighteen holes of real stroke play. A $36,000 purse. Pro, Gross, and Net divisions, so it doesn't matter if you're a scratch or a mid-handicap — there's a bracket with your name on it, and season points on the line toward the championship.
This is not a scramble. This is not a charity shamble with a longest-drive prize. This is competition — the kind we've spent 25 years cataloging, ranking, and believing in. And it's happening two weeks out.
So why are we telling you this?
Because you can actually play in it.
Normally, teeing it up in the Buckets Cup requires a $300-a-year Buckets Club membership. For AmateurGolf.com members, Malbon is waiving that requirement entirely — a $300 value, gone, because you're already part of the competitive community they're trying to reach. No hoops. No annual dues. Just register and go compete.
Think about what that is for a second. A real purse event at a championship venue, opening the ropes to the exact players who take this game seriously — you. That's not a marketing gimmick. That's a door held open. The only question is whether you walk through it before it closes.
And it will close. The field at Conway Farms is limited, registration is filling, and July 13 is coming fast. This is the part where the reader who bookmarks the page "to think about it" watches the event sell out, and the reader who acts spends the summer telling the story of the day they teed it up for a $36K purse on a championship track.
Be the second one.
The details:
- What: Malbon Buckets Cup Tour — Event 06, Conway Farms
- Where: Conway Farms Golf Club, 425 Conway Farms Dr, Lake Forest, IL
- When: Monday, July 13, 2026
- Format: 18-hole stroke play · Pro / Gross / Net divisions · $36,000 purse
- Members: Buckets Club membership requirement waived for AmateurGolf.com members
You've read enough leaderboards. Go put your name on one.
Spots are limited and the deadline is near — register today.