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4.4
351 Reviews (351)
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3 Stars
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1 Stars
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Conditions
4.4
Value
4.3
Layout
4.5
Friendliness
4.5
Pace
4.2
Amenities
4.3
94.0%
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338 out of 351 reviews
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4.6
9 Reviews (9)
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Conditions
4.4
Value
4.1
Layout
4.4
Pace
4.3
Amenities
4.6
StaffFriendliness
4.4
88.9%
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4.4
42 Reviews (42)
5 Stars
24
4 Stars
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3 Stars
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Conditions
4.4
Value
4.2
Layout
4.5
Pace
4.2
Amenities
4.4
StaffFriendliness
4.4
92.9%
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Holes 18
Type Public
Par 71
Length 6631 yards
Slope 123
Rating 71.1
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Course Details

Year Built 1996
Fairways Bent Grass
Greens Bent Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Greg Martin (1990)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
GPS Yes
Pull-carts Yes
Caddies No
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes

Food & Beverage

Bar, Grill

Available Facilities

Clubhouse
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4.4
351 Reviews (351)
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Reviews 39
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

the course is a great layout

course is in great shape and i love the layout. the holes are just the right length.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Not thrilled

Haven't played this course in a few years and it used to be very nice, but it definitely has dropped off. Greens were full of ball marks and many putts were knocked off line. Sand traps are like playing off gravel they were so hard. I understand that traps are difficult, but to be unable to take sand in a green side bunker is unfair.

This may seem like piling on, but keep the tee times going off as scheduled. If I have a 9:20 tee time, don't send me out at 9:15 because the tee is clear. We shouldn't come to the third hole and be 3 groups deep and then inch along for the rest of the day .

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Can't beat it for the price. Also great in the fall due to limited trees.

I have never been dissapointed playing here plus I got a hole in one so that never hurts.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Layout great! Greens need work.

Overall the layout is a really nice one. Appeasing to the eye and well manicured. The greens were bumpy, slow, and full of ball marks. Good putts were short and off-line due to bouncing. It was hard to make putts to say the least. Frustrating!

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great pace of play on a Sunday in the Chicago area

The course was in very good shape. If there is any issue, it is mainly with the bunkers. Some greenside bunkers had too much sand, others had no sand. Fairway bunkers typically had no sand.

It was a pleasure to play in 4 hours and 5 minutes on a Sunday. Any more Chicago golf has become a 5 hour proposition.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 21
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

well maintained greens

Carrillon has a good maintained course. Staff is friendly, and pace of play is well regulated. They should have more hot deals available online if they want more exposure to the public.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 58
Handicap 25+
Skill Beginner
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 1000 Contributor
First Time Playing

Nice course

Not a long course. Lot of shorter par 4's. Course was in good condition but more than a few greens had non repaired divot marks. Staff was friendly but we didn't interact with them too much. My only complaint was pace of play. My twosome was stuck behind people all day. We would wait at each tee box for 3-5 minutes just waiting for the players ahead of to tee off. They were waiting for the people before them. It didn't seem like there were a lot golfers there but we were all bunched up. Seemed odd this would happen at a course with 27 holes.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 449
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Illinois Advisor
Top 10 Contributor
Previously Played

Great Value / Friendly Service

I've played Carrilon since it's opening....almost every year. Took a year off last year. This summer the tees/fairways and sand traps are in very good shape....the greens while maintained (I didn't have to repair many ball marks) were fairly bumpy and slow in comparison to other courses in the area....thus the overall average rating. Would be 4 stars but the greens and the generally flat land.....lots of dirt was moved to build this course bring it down a notch. The Links are absolutely worth a visit at least once a year and with the green fee of $25 via golfnow it's a very good bang for your golf buck.....play can be very slow on weekends and we were lucky to play during the week and caught a gap in the tee sheet....but were still slowed by a 4-some on back nine....and our 4 hr round would have been close to a 5 hr round if we had teed off directly behind this group.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Nice course. Very good condition. Great price!!

Very nice close-in course. Always enjoy playing this course.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 50
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Fits My Game

I sprayed the ball today and scrambled to shoot 79. The course has some holes that you can get away with an erant tee shoot

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 27
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

3 sets of 9 holes to play...neat variety

nice course, nice staff. front 9 (red course) nice section with good variety of holes and challenges. back 9 (white course) is pretty challenging with some nice holes and a great finishing hole called the gauntlet! would play definitely again!

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 16
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Course is always well maintained

Links of Carillon always looks great. The entire complex is well maintained. However, many of the carts didn't have GPS, and those that did looked like it was jerryrigged. I have to assume that the are doing a conversion to new carts or a new GPS system. Also, there were numberous fresh ball marks on the greens. Come on, golfers, fix your marks! The group ahead had two walkers. I'm not sure what they were thinking because they would walk on a 90 degree from their ball then walk down the cart path. They walked a lot longer than they needed to, and this naturally slowed them down. After their 4th holes, they were walking a more direct path to their ball.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
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First Time Playing

Really nice shape.

These guys keep their three nines in really nice condition. The weather has helped them, too. We played the Blue course; nine holes.

The course was uncrowded and played fast. We only played nine this day, but it plays fast most days. The price is right, too.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great Golf Facility

I've now played all three of Links courses at Carillon. All three were in great shape and well taken care of. A few of the bunkers could have used some TLC but other than that, I have no complaints. A fair course with some challenging holes. Sand haters BEWARE!

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Course in beautiful shape and very well maintained, except .......

As noted in their 2013 plans, sand traps and cart GPS are in need of attention. One of the fairway traps I played out of was really a dirt trap with pebbles. The cart GPS unit went blank repeatedly throughout the round, but everyone else had smart phones so no worry.

Fairway and green condition and cut were excellent. Course remains a gem and a bargain at the price of green fees.

I'll be back.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

great value

great value and pace of play was great, corurse was in excellent condition

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 25+
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great course for the money

Not too tough, not too easy. Great golf course and you must play 18th hole on white course. It is their signature hole. When you play it, you know why.
Awesome.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing

Very Nice course to play

The fairways were in great shape bunkers look amazing, dont know how they were to hit out of i was never in one. The greens were a little different. It was my first time playing there but to me greens were challenging and running very fast to got get a read on the greens at all, maybe nextime.. The food at the turnaround well pack a lunch or just get a hot dog, i dont think they know what a brat is.... awful...

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Twice a year
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

80%

80% of the coarse is good. The only issue are the sand traps, but it looks as though they are working on them.

Conditions Poor
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

I've always liked this course

I've been playing Carillon for a few years. It's a fun course to practice and try out new things on. My favorite thing is you can play without a driver and still score just fine. #9 on the white course is a cool finishing hole. The pace of play can get long in the tooth sometimes but that seems to happen everywhere. I will put in 3 - 4 rounds a year here.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Difficulty Extremely Easy
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