West at White Pines Golf Course

The cart paths are crushed gravel with very deep ruts and following another cart means driving through a cloud of dust!

Rarely do I give a one star rating. White Pines really deserves it this time.

1) On a Friday morning with a fairly empty tee sheet the course allowed a 5-some of walkers to hold up the entire course.....we teed off at least a 1/2 hour after them and they were holding up groups behind them from the 3rd tee on. Completely unacceptable and I don't care if they are "members" or not.....this according to the ranger who did nothing to assist speed of play. The walking 5-some was followed by a two-some who for some reason never played through them and then the two-some and three-some directly in front of our group on the 3rd hole also became a 5-some playing the tips (and 4 of them had no business playing them spraying the ball around everywhere)! Completely ridiculous mid-morning on a Friday.

2) sand traps while they look "maintained" are basically a thin layer of dirt with hard pan underneath. Good luck when you get in a green side bunker.

3) greens - appeared to have been micro aerated recently however they were very slow in comparison to other area courses and frankly were pretty bumpy. Greens hadn't been cut in a day or two or even rolled. Repaired several ball marks (some recent and some not so recent).

4) Pin position sheet on scorecard - several pins were flat out wrong. If you're going to have pin position assignments on your scorecard - get them right.

5) overall employee attitude - poor from check-in, ranger, halfway house, cart girl....it didn't appear anyone was very "happy" at this place....never a smile or that they were even happy to see you.......perhaps the light tee sheet speaks for itself.

Both courses are worth $25 at most at this point. See my quick tip in regards rates....and based upon this very poor experience.won't go back to White Pines again anytime soon......

The course layout was to my liking and the fairways,traps,rough and greens were well maintained. Excellent kept course .

I've played both courses at White Pines multiple times, but it had been a while since I had last been on the East course. Personally I think it is slightly more challenging than the west and the layout is better as well.

White Pines has recently lost a large number of trees (due to disease) and the East course (at least so far) seems to a faired better than the West course.

I think both courses can be slightly overpriced (especially on the weekends) but if you can find a deal, it is well worth playing.

Overall good value on golf now

Wouldn't pay Reg price

Fairways in good shape. Some holes extremely tight due to trees not trimmed back

Pat 3's very long but we did play from back tees

Greens in great shape but slow, not much challenge, pretty flat

everything was great except its very slow play with no one pushing anyone to move on...

Beautifull course! Lots of trees tho.

Always loved the west course and it didn't disappoint.

The only issue was pace of play. 1 group held up 4.

Waited on every hole and every shot. Rangers have to work on slow players letting faster players play through. Other than that it was a fine day...

I had never played here before and was so pleasantly surprised at what a beautiful course this was. The Greens were the pristine I have seen all year long. The level of difficulty was just right with plenty of trees and just enough water. This is my new Favorite course. Great value for the experience.

Played the west course-nothing too special. A fair amount of trees, some water, but mostly straight holes with some bunkers to deal with. Some of the holes were interesting doglegs, but for the most part the course isn't too exciting.

Course conditions were incredibly slow, which can't be controlled.....however, we called the clubhouse after 3 hours and 11 holes to get a raincheck, which they denied and said they would just send a ranger. Well the ranger came to watch the groups in front of us but didn't say anything. And the ranger at the turn said to expect it to be slow because there was an outing in front of us. An outing in front of us is a poor excuse to make us play almost a 6 hour round. Yes it was probably a once off experience where it was very slow, however when we asked the clubhouse to do something about it and have players play faster, they did NOTHING, which is poor management. We called it after 16 holes and 4 hours 45 minutes when there were 2 groups on the tee at 17 in front of us. Plenty of courses in the area for the same price, better alternatives. (I must say the girl in the clubhouse was very apologetic and nice after we finished to complain about how slow it was. The other rangers were worthless)

Course play was extremely slow on front nine. Starter went out of his way to find an open nine for me to play for my back nine.

On the starter's hut off the first tee there reads a sign stating the round should take 4 hours and 15 min. Five and a half hours later, we completed our round. No rangers to move people along.

Got great rate, and despite knowing this course and it's deficiencies figured it was either this or no play.

The course has some nice holes but at some point they planted hundreds of unnecessary trees, many of which have been lost to ash borer, and removal has not been completed. So many holes are very tight and average golfers will spend a lot of shots pitching out.. The par 5's in particular are tough. Hole 11 badly is in need of a shorter set of tees for average golfers and a bigger green.

Course was in generally good condition though bunkers could use some work and rough around the greens was unnecessarily high.

Big issue was slow play. It took 4 hours 45 minutes for our group to play 16 holes (when I quit). Our foursome waited on every tee. Yes it was a Sunday, but I observed while on 11, that holes 13 and 14 were completely clear ahead of us and there was no ranger in sight all day.

GREAT DAY. FRONT NINE MOVED FAST. COURSE GREAT CONDITION

Course was in great shape. Despite the loss of so many ash trees, the course remains challenging. Some of the sand traps could use a little more sand. All in all great course for this early in the season. Thanks for your efforts.

I'm a bogey golfer and shot 134 on 27 holes - so right in line with my handicap would lead me to call this course average difficulty.

The course was in decent shape considering the standing water and mud from the heavy rain. The staff was friendly and encouraging despite the conditions. There were some areas needing tree clean up - to be expected this time of year. I thought this course was fair for the rate - not an exceptional value but fair.

this course is in terrible shape and has been for years.the bunkers have no drainage(the sand is more like light colored mud),cart paths are pothole infested garbage,carts are filthy messes,massive piles of cut down trees are everywhere.save your money and go to a decent golf course, not this piece of garbage.

Good course for beginners. Played by myself, staff was friendly. There was a foursome in front of me, and the ranger let me tee off before them so I didn't have to wait. He also offered me to play the west course. Back nine very narrow but fun.

Even though they checked play speed and said

it is very slow, but nothing they did not do.

No Marshall.

White Pines East is pretty run of the mill and not bad for the price (I wouldn't pay more than $50; at higher rates there are better tracks to be had nearby). From the back tees the par 3s are challenging and the par 5s are probably going to take 3 shots to get home. The course is not in great shape. That said, we played early in the spring and perhaps they really turn it around as the season progresses. That would be a lot of work. The staff is very friendly and accomodating. There are not many solid public courses near downtown Chicago, so I expect I may be back at some point, probably when I don't want to pay $90 or $100 to play Harborside (or if it's full).