Chicagoland Golf Scene

Ravisloe Country Club Begins an Exciting New Era Print E-mail
Thursday, 16 July 2009

Ravisloe Country ClubThe period of Ravisloe Country Club’s existence spans more than a century, 108 years to be precise. To put that into perspective, consider that one of America’s oldest 18-hole golf courses, Wheaton’s Chicago Golf Club, preceded Ravisloe by only six years.

And following the opening of Ravisloe Country Club in 1901, another six years elapsed before the Cubs won the first of back-toback World Series Championships. Obviously, some traditions weren’t supposed to reach the century mark!

For 108 years, signs at the gates leading to Homewood’s premier property had read “Members Only,” but with new ownership and a new lease on its golf life, Ravisloe now greets its visitors with the welcoming message of “Open to the Public.”

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Oswego's Fox Bend Golf Course Print E-mail
Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Fox Bend Golf CourseFox Bend Golf Course offers a challenging course at a terrific value! Owned and operated by the Oswegoland Park District, Fox Bend boasts plush fairways, mature trees, and meticulous greens. This 6,890 yard, par-72 course tests golf skills of all levels with 34 well-positioned sand traps and water coming into play on ten holes.

A traditional design, Fox Bend was built in 1967 by Brent Wadsworth, owner of Wadsworth Construction Company, who used the course as an outdoor model for his golf course construction business. Fox Bend has hosted several distinguished golf events including the Illinois PGA Championship, Western Open qualifying, and three Illinois Open Championships. 

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Hughes Creek Golf Club: Panoramic Vistas, Excellent Value Print E-mail
Friday, 08 May 2009

Hughes Creek Golf ClubLess than 10 miles from Rich Harvest Farms, site of this summer's Solheim Cup competition, Elburn's Hughes Creek Golf Club is one of the Chicagoland's most complete golf destinations featuring a classic golf course, great food and tremendous views, on and off the course.

Designed by the late Gordon Cunningham in 1992, Hughes Creek is an 18-hole championship layout built on 170 acres of beautiful rolling farmland with plenty of water, wetlands, wildflowers and wildlife.

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Bolingbrook Golf Club Ascends to Golfweek's Best Courses List Print E-mail
Thursday, 26 February 2009

Bolingbrook Golf ClubBolingbrook Golf Club has been named as one of the 2009 Best Courses You Can Play, according to a listing created by Golfweek, a weekly golf periodical with more than 1.3 million readers. The upscale municipal course, located in Chicago's southwest suburb, will be ranked as one of the top public-access layouts in the United States, as selected by the magazine's ranking system.

The full list will appear in the upcoming guide, Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play, which touts itself as the essential handbook on where to go, play and experience the best of the best in golf. The guide will mail to subscribers May 1st and is a digest-sized directory designed to fit easily into golf bags, briefcases and glove compartments. 

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The Links at Carillon: Still a Gem, but no Longer Hidden Print E-mail
Thursday, 12 February 2009

The Links at CarillonThe Links at Carillon has undergone an evolution of sorts in recent years; not necessarily the golf course itself, but the public's perception of the Greg Martin design. The course no longer remains quietly tucked away in the Westside suburbs of Chicago, and the title "hidden gem" no longer applies.

Previously rated 3.5 stars by Golf Digest, The Links at Carillon was recently given aFour stars and rated as one of Chicagoland's top public golf courses by Chicagoland Golf magazine. The White Course, one of three nine-hole tracks at the course, is home to one of the Chicago area's most recognizable holes, the 528-yard par-5 ninth that is commonly referred to as the gauntlet. The hole was included in Chicagoland Golf magazine's "Dream 18," a list that chronicles the most outstanding golf holes in the twelve-county region.
 

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Klein Creek Golf Club offers Private Club Atmosphere, Public Access Print E-mail
Thursday, 12 February 2009

Klein Creek Golf ClubNestled in the western suburbs of Chicago, Klein Creek Golf Club is an upscale daily-fee layout that demands accuracy off the tee, and as you approach its fairly inviting green complexes. The Dick Nugent design features a good mix of long and short holes, creating a formidable challenge in a wonderful setting.

If there is one common theme throughout the golf course, it's the pervasiveness of water. Fifteen of the 18 holes at Klein Creek are affected by water. 

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Glendale Lakes Golf Club: Challenge, Beauty and Service Print E-mail
Wednesday, 11 February 2009

Glendale Lakes Golf ClubDesigned by noted Midwestern golf course architect Dick Nugent, Glendale Lakes Golf Club in suburban Glendale Heights can best be described as "target golf," a concept that makes each and every shot an experience. At a modest 6,190 yards from the back blue tees, the layout isn't overly long, yet it still manages to provide a stern challenge to even the most accomplished players.

While the relatively short yardage may fool you at first, there are plenty of pitfalls littered throughout this layout. Five par 3s shorten the course, but an abundance of water and sand demands one's complete attention.

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Hilton Chicago/Indian Lakes Resort & Conference Center Print E-mail
Friday, 06 February 2009

Hilton Chicago/Indian Lakes Resort & Conference CenterIllinois native Robert Bruce Harris laid out his first golf course, the Hubbard Trail Country Club, in Hoopeston, Ill., in 1927. During his architectural career, golf historians estimate Harris built or renovated more than 150 golf courses throughout the Midwest and the South.

During the 1960s, the man who would eventually become the first president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, laid out 36 golf holes in the village of Bloomingdale.

Today Harris’ design has been transformed into a 27-hole, resort golf facility that serves as an escape from the stress and constant motion of Chicago.

Renowned designer Rick Jacobson, whose design firm renovated historic Medinah Country Club in preparation for the 1990 U.S. Open, was the visionary behind a restoration that brought new life to the 18 holes now referred to as Black-hawk Trace, and shaped the remaining parcel of land into an original nine-hole complex and new practice facility. 

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Western Amateur Headed Back to Chicago Area Print E-mail
Friday, 01 August 2008

The prestigious Western Amateur golf championship is returning to its roots.

After an absence spanning more than a half century, including a lengthy stint at Point O' Woods Golf Club in Benton Harbor, Michigan which has hosted the event since 1971, a tournament won by two-time U.S. Open champion Andy North, the Western Golf Association has announced that seven Chicago-area clubs will take turns hosting the Western Amateur from 2009 through 2015. 

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Plenty of Ways to Experience Indiana’s Most Complete Golf Resort Print E-mail
Wednesday, 11 June 2008

U.S. Golf Academy & Indiana National Golf Club at Swan Lake Resort Swan Lake Resort is home to the Indiana National Golf Club, stateof-the-art meeting and banquet facilities, a full-service spa, luxury accommodations and the renowned United States Golf Academy. With everything the facility has to offer, it’s easy to see why Swan Lake deserves to be classified as a destination and not merely a golf resort.

The striking resort is the perfect Midwestern getaway and is located approximately 100 miles from Chicago, 115 miles from Indianapolis and 35 miles from South Bend.

This summer, Swan Lake has a full slate of overnight offerings for those looking to Stay and Play in this beautiful Northern Indiana setting. Whether you want to experience a complete golf weekend at either the Indiana National Golf Club or US Golf Academy, there are a variety of packages to accommodate every budget and schedule. Three different Stay & Play packages are available for the 18-hole championship courses: Mulligan’s Platinum Package, Mulligan’s Golf Package and Mulligan’s Silver Package.

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Indiana National Golf Club at Swan Lake Resort Print E-mail
Wednesday, 20 February 2008

Learn to Score Better

Indiana National Golf Club at Swan Lake Resort in Plymouth It is the Catch-22 of golf. If we only scored a little bit better, we’d be more excited about practicing more, which would lead to even better scoring. Yet most every infomercial you’ve ever watched says the “key” to a better score is a new club or a training aid when what we probably need is obvious; some time with a teaching professional who is passionate about helping us improve our score so that we can conquer that Catch-22.

But we’re afraid to break the cycle. “Golf School” sounds more like a prison sentence than an opportunity for a golf epiphany. We fear we’ll be embarrassed in a group of players who are better than we are.

The United States Golf Academy at the Indiana National Golf Club at Swan Lake Resort in Plymouth, Indiana wants to smash that stereotype. The Academy has some revolutionary thoughts, and passionate pros, who want to change the way you think of “golf schools” and get you on the road  to enjoying the game more than ever. 

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Foxford Hills Golf Club - Cary’s Resort Golf in the Suburbs Print E-mail
Wednesday, 20 February 2008

Foxford Hills Golf Club For a perfect resort golf experience without leaving Chicagoland area proper, look no further than to Foxford Hills Golf Club in Cary.

At a charming, Southernstyle clubhouse Foxford Hills Golf Club, with a spacious veranda evokes the Carolinas. Inside, it’s bright and airy with a well-stocked pro shop, an inviting bar and grill, and accommodating locker rooms. Hospitality is friendly, not fussy, and always courteous. Attention to detail is everywhere. It’s resort golf ambiance, and you haven’t yet set foot on the golf course.

Ah, the golf course. The first six holes are relatively wide open, with expansive greens, spacious, undulating fairways, and discrete water and wetlands. The look is windswept and coastal; you almost expect to hear the muted thunder of the ocean and cries of gulls. Many of the next 12 holes, especially the back nine, meander up and down hills framed by mature hardwood trees. Sixty distinctive MacKenzie-style bunkers populate the course. The flavor is vintage Carolina...the conditioning, consistent with what you’d find at elite private clubs. 

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Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa Print E-mail
Thursday, 31 January 2008

GALENA, Ill. - Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa holds itself in high esteem, claiming to be the ultimate Midwest golf destination. Recent accolades heaped upon the course back up those assertions.

The golf program is central to the resort and was recently named "Best Course in the State" (2008) by GolfDigest and "Best in the Midwest" (2007) by Travel + Leisure Golf magazine.

Located 150 miles west of Chicago, this hidden gem is situated in the Mississippi River Valley's natural landscape of rolling hills and panoramic scenery.

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Oak Grove Golf Course Print E-mail
Monday, 16 July 2007

If you can find better greens, play them!

Oak Grove Golf Course in Harvard

Like Lee Iacocca, the automaker icon, Tim Miles, Sr., a longtime golf course operator in northern Illinois, is just that passionate about Oak Grove Golf Course in Harvard. One of Golf Digest’s Top 20 Places to Play in Illinois, Oak Grove has garnered raves from those who’ve ventured out to the quiet, gorgeous layout just 75 minutes northwest of Chicago, near the Wisconsin border between Woodstock and Lake Geneva.

In fact, Miles will go a couple of steps farther, stretching his claim of “best public greens you’ll play” to a 300-mile radius of the course, and promising that if you don’t agree with the quality and value of the Oak Grove experience, he’ll make it right for you.

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Links at Carillon Print E-mail
Tuesday, 24 April 2007

Links at Carillon, ChicagolandThere was a time when this 27-hole Greg Martin design really was a hidden jewel, literally a “diamond in the rough” in Plainfield. But with the western growth of Chicagoland over the past few years, the Links at Carillon isn't on the outskirts any longer. In fact, while this former piece of Illinois farmland inside the gated community of Carillon still feels like a getaway, it is now right in the backyard of thousands of avid Westside golfers, and has never been more ready to be explored by your foursome or group outing.

Owned by a group of golf lovers, the The Links at Carillon gets all of their attention, and it shows in the lush landscaping of the course (the group also bought a Michigan tree farm years ago and transplanted over 1,600 trees to the golf course) and its spectacular conditioning.

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Aldeen Golf Club Print E-mail
Monday, 23 April 2007

The Aldeen Golf ClubWhen it comes to high-quality golf at an affordable price, Chicagoland golfers can find a gem of a course just down I-90 in Rockford.  The Aldeen Golf Club is an 18-hole Rockford Park District golf course featuring manicured bentgrass greens, challenging water features, beach bunkers, and breathtaking landscape.

Aldeen is rated 4-stars by Golf Digest “Places to Play;” listed as one of the Top-30 new public courses built in 1991; and named one of the “Top-50 courses in the USA under $50” by GOLF Magazine in September 2004. Last year, a story in the Chicago District Golf Association Magazine included Aldeen as one of the CDGA’s toughest 25 public golf courses, called “Chicago Bears.”

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Klein Creek: It Only Feels Like a Private Club Print E-mail
Thursday, 19 April 2007

Klein Creek Golf Club, ChicagolandThe folks who operate Klein Creek Golf Club in Winfield like to stress that their course is in the best shape of any in Chicagoland’s western suburbs, that the greens are the best maintained and the layout’s true beauty is in the detail work of the mnicuring of this Dick Nugent masterpiece. Golf Digest’s Places to Play agrees, awarding this course located just 10 minutes off I-355 and only 45 minutes from Downtown Chicago, 4-Stars!

Besides the immaculate landscaping of the 230 acres, you’re likely to notice very early on there’s a whole lot more water to this layout than just Klein Creek, the course’s namesake, with water coming into play on 15 of the 18 holes. On the very first hole, water impacts both the tee ball and the approach shot and water runs down the entire right side of the par-4 second just to confirm the premise. 

Klein Creek Golf Club isn’t terrifically long (only 6,700-yards from the tips with a par of 72), but knowing your own game and where you can place the ball is paramount given all the water throughout the course. With the water and lack of enormous length, there are risk-reward opportunities on just about every hole, with the intermediate tees measuring from 6,300 yards to just under 5,800 yards and the forward tees at about 4,900 yards.

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Cantigny Golf Club Print E-mail
Wednesday, 02 August 2006

It doesn't take a lot of detective work to figure out just how intriguing the golf is at Cantigny Golf and Tennis, the 27-hole Roger Packard-designed layout on the 500-acre McCormick estate in suburban Wheaton. But just in case, there's a bunker in the middle of the ninth fairway of the Lakeside Course shaped in the silhouette of the famed comic strip crime fighter Dick Tracy.

The Tracy bunker is just one homage to the great past of Cantigny (pronounced can-tee-nee and named by Col. Robert McCormick for the French city where the first allied offensive of World War I took place). The golf courses, annually rated 4-1/2 Stars in Golf Digest's Places to Play, were built to honor a pledge in Colonel McCormick's will that the estate serve as a source of recreation, education, and welfare for the people of the state of Illinois.

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Shepherd’s Crook Golf Course Print E-mail
Tuesday, 21 June 2005

The feeling of a round at famed Irish courses Ballybunion or Waterville within 5 miles of I-94? Welcome to Shepherds Crook Golf Course, honoring the men who unintentionally invented the game and their first “clubs”. Located just on the Illinois side of the Wisonsin state line between Chicago and Milwaukee, I-94 and Lake Michigan, Shepherd’s Crook is a great getaway for golfers from either major city. It is also home to the kind of atmosphere that doesn’t just allow walking, but encourages it.

Just as the vintage Irish clubs used the land as they found it, “Shepherd’s Crook is routed with the classic and strategic design principles that cut features naturally to the terrain,” says course architect Keith Foster. The Kentucky-based designer has not only created The Quarry in San Antonio, Sun Ridge Canyon in the Phoenix area and other public/metro gems like Gateway National in St. Louis and the Tradition in Houston, he’s also been involved in the renovation and restoration of classic tournament courses like Colonial in Ft. Worth and Southern Hills in Tulsa.

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Bolingbrook Golf Club Print E-mail
Monday, 20 June 2005

Bolingbrook Golf ClubCould it be possible that Bolingbrook Golf Club highly acclaimed 18-hole layout, one of the Top-10 new public-access courses in the country (Golf Magazine, 2002) could be surpassed by the services provided in its award-winning 76,000 square-foot clbhouse?

Located just southwest of Chicago off I-55 in the Village of Bolingbrook, the club already earned kudos for its first-class amenities for golfers, including what Great Lakes Golf Magazine calls “The Best 19th Hole in Illinois,” and the award as the “2nd Best New Clubhouse” from golf industry publication Golf, Inc. But you can enjoy those pleasures just passing through. What about Bolingbrook’s award-winning Clubhouse as a destination of its own?

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