The Lincolnshire Marriott Resort has recently been refreshed with a $28-million-dollar renovation of its Porte Cochere, lobby, restaurants, guest rooms and suites and includes the addition of a full-service Starbucks and relaxation spa. The 40,000 square feet of meeting and event space offers flexible ballrooms and three spacious outdoor pavilions…
The Glen Club, the home of the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame, is the centerpiece of a well-established community built up from the former site of the Glenview Naval Air Station. Tom Fazio sculpted the 7,170-yard course run by KemperSports, taking advantage of subtle elevation changes, lakes, streams and a view of the Chicago skyline in the distance.…
The Eaglewood Resort and Spa is a versatile property good for golfers, vacationers and business travelers in greater Chicagoland. The 295 guest rooms and suites are stocked with oversized desks and comfortable seating areas. For recreation and entertainment, Eaglewood, which is adjacent to the famed Medinah Country Club, offers its own public golf…
The Nippersink Golf, Banquets & Hotel in Genoa City features a historic golf course, banquet facilities overlooking a private lake and a newly remodeled hotel. Established in 1922, Nippersink was designed by James Foulis, Jr., the second winner of the U.S. Open. The 6,627-yard routing is guarded by two ponds that impact four holes. Hotel rooms…
The Hilton Chicago Oak Brook Hills Resort & Conference Center features the best of being near downtown with the relaxation of a resort getaway. Guests have access to a golf course, a 24-hour fitness center, indoor and outdoor swimming pools with whirlpools and saunas, billiard tables, game rooms, as well as tennis, volleyball and basketball…
The Grand Geneva Resort & Spa is a sprawling 1,300-acre, AAA Four Diamond property, home to 355 rooms and 29 new villas. It's a four-season destination with the Mountain Top ski and snowboard facility and the 225-room Timber Ridge Lodge & Waterpark, an indoor-outdoor waterpark. Sandwiched between Milwaukee and Chicago, Grand Geneva invites city…
The Geneva National Resort & Club in Lake Geneva sits above the shores of Lake Como with 54 holes of golf designed by Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Lee Trevino. Guests get access to five dining options, a fitness center, indoor and outdoor pools, a salon and spa, a marina with watersport rentals and outdoor activities. Choose from multi-bedroom…
As home of the Cubs, Wrigley Field may be Chicago's most well known sports venue but with more than 200 courses to choose from, the city also has a growing reputation as a popular golf destination.
Lake Geneva is less than 90 minutes from Chicago and even closer to Milwaukee, but it's a world away. The 9-mile-long lake is surrounded by a historic town, some of the best golf courses in Wisconsin, a four-star resort that began as a Playboy Club resort, and a string of enormous summer mansions built ín the 1800s by Americas most famous industrialists.
For most golfers, it will take some planning and travel time to get to Stonewall Orchard. Good courses are worth the extra effort, however. Take the time, spend the day, enjoy the experience, and make up your own mind about that devious 18th hole. Dave Berner has more from Grayslake, Ill.
Located in Zion, just miles from the Wisconsin border, Shepherd's Crook Golf Course treasures the traditions of Scotland. It's not a true links course, but it pays homage to those gems across the Atlantic. There's not much to Shepherd's Crook except the course itself -- and that's all you need.
With his golf course design business based 30 miles away in Libertyville, Ill., highly acclaimed Rick Jacobson was an obvious and convenient choice to build Bowes Creek Country Club in Elgin. Based on reviews on GolfNow.com, locals approve of the work of their native son, giving Bowes Creek an average rating of 4.5 on a scale of 5. The course has many of the player-friendly touches typical of Jacobson courses: wide fairways, big greens and multiple, scattered tee boxes, giving holes an array of different looks.
Prairie Landing Golf Club is laid out on the rolling land next to a small airport in DuPage County, 40 miles west of Chicago. Also, as you move through this layout, you can't miss the train tracks that run the perimeter of the course, reminiscent of some of the great links courses in Scotland. What the planes and trains do is add quaintness to a sprawling complex of remarkably interesting holes, tricky greens and a practice facility that is one of the best anywhere in the area.
A list of the top 50 municipal tracks in the U.S. includes five from the Chicago area, more than any other city. Besides quality, what do the Windy City's best tracks have in common? Let's just say size clearly matters.
Chicagoans can hop in their car and choose from several dozen golf resorts in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, all within a six-hour drive.
You can't call yourself a golfer if you haven't tried to sneak in a round between client calls. Thing is, there are a lot of cities that are not the best choices for conducting the art of what one might call "squeeze-in" golf. However, Chicago -- one of the nation's most active business-convention towns -- might be the best place in America for both sealing the deal AND sinking a putt. Here's your one, two, three strategy for getting it done.
The Jackson Park and South Shore golf courses have been a part of Chicago's south side for more than a century. A new plan to build an 18-hole championship course by Tiger Woods from their footprints is slowly taking shape.
On Brandon Tucker's most recent trip, he discovered Ship Sticks is a valuable tool to help lighten the load traveling through airports with his family.
We asked Local Golf Advisor Bryan Tweed about where to play golf around Chicago. See which courses he say you should play on your next visit to the Windy City.
Golf course architects Dick Nugent and Jeff Hardin both leave a legacy of fine courses behind. Here's a look at their influence in the design business.
The Lake Geneva, Wisconsin area is known as Chicago's playground, although it's actually closer to Milwaukee. About an hour and a half north of the Windy City, Lake Geneva was founded by Chicago's wealthy families around 100 years ago. Narrowing down the best golf isn't easy, but here are five golf courses that won't do you wrong.
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, easily accessible from airports in Milwaukee and Chicago, is a great lake-and-golf destination. The roster of strong courses goes deep. Jason Scott Deegan presents his list of 10 courses to consider in Lake Geneva.
A picturesque setting unfolds at Geneva National Golf Club in Lake Geneva. With courses designed by Lee Trevino, Gary Player and Arnold Palmer, Geneva National is the second-largest golf facility in the state. The Player Course is the most fun to play. The Trevino plays tough because of its narrower fairways and hard-to-read greens. While the Palmer takes advantage of its Lake Como setting.
Lake Geneva -- a small lakeside town in southern Wisconsin -- has always been "Chicago's playground." Chicagoans can hop in the car and within two hours be fishing or boating on one of the region's three major lakes or teeing it up on a scenic resort golf course kissing their shores. With top-notch golf -- Grand Geneva Resort & Spa and Geneva National, to name two -- resorts and restaurants, it's easy to see why Lake Geneva is a popular destination.
Dating back to 1968, today's Grand Geneva Resort and Spa is family friendly and quite diverse. Golf remains central to the resort's amenities, which include horseback riding, zip-lining, mountain biking, tennis, swimming, skiing, snowmobiling, fine dining, and the luxuriousness of the WELL spa. Kiel Christianson offers a look at Grand Geneva's Brute and Highlands golf courses.
Considered one of the toughest golf courses in the Midwest, The Brute at Grand Geneva Resort is arguably one of the prettiest as well with elevated tees, large greens, 68 bunkers and impeccable playing conditions. The course, which was designed by Robert Bruce Harris, plays to nearly 7,100 yards from the tips but its most predominant feature might be the large greens, which average more than 8,000 square feet with deceiving slopes.
Lake Geneva, a small resort town in southern Wisconsin, serves an escape from city life for Chicago and Milwaukee residents. Lake Geneva, Lake Como and Lake Delavan provide scenery and recreation, from boating and fishing to golf.
One of the favorite daily-fee facilities in the Lake Geneva area, Hawk's View Golf Club not only offers a well conditioned and scenic 18-hole championship course, but an 18-hole short course as well.