Green Garden Country Club - Blue Course

Good value, The course was in good condition for the time of year, the greens are large and in excellent shape, with good undulation and challenging putting. Course has interesting layout with some length. Forgiving fairwaysSo there’s not a lot of pressure for I handicappers to keep them all straight.

The Course was in pretty good condition

Will go back

The green were extremely firm -hard to get a ball to stick-quite a few wear-dry marks in fairways and traffic lanes from carts -But it is October in Illinois

Really liked the layout, preferred the front 9 over the back 9 though. Greens were recently air rated so it was hard to get a true roll today on putts. Other than that course was in really good shape for this time of the year . Staff was very friendly & helpful

They didn't have enough carts so I had to wait about 20 minutes. Also, Pace of play was too slow

The Good:

Green Gardens (all three courses) are in great shape this year. Maintenance is great and the course is well kept. The Staff was pleasant. Greens in good shape and fairways well kept. The course is fairly open with some challenging holes. The Gold and Blue courses have good length and enjoyable to play.

The Bad:

The pace of play. The two rounds I have played here this year have been the slowest all year of anywhere I’ve golfed. Major backups at every hole. 4-1/2 hour rounds both times. Hard to feel good about your day out when you are constantly waiting each hole. My suggestion is play a less busy day or time. Would make a big difference.

The Ugly:

They don’t have enough carts to support their tee times. Had to stand in a line for 30 mins waiting for carts to come in from previous groups. There were about 20 other people waiting with me. Arrived early to use the practice greens and instead had to wait for a cart. Once again, choose a less busy time And you won’t have to deal with this.

Course layout and conditions were good, however the pace of play was terrible! We had to wait “in line” from tee to tee on the back 9 for 10+minutes.

The starter was rude when we arrived to head off to the 1st tee...(but friendly to the group in front of us, who he allowed to play on the Blue course even though they booked to play the Gold course). No one ever came around patrolling the course or pace of play.

Course was in good shape, weather was outstanding and as such it was packed on a Saturday morning. First time playing there so was not familiar with the layout going in. Quite a few holes have the Blue and Gold sides playing with/at each other so you have to be aware at who's hitting and from where. Heard a guy yell out from another hole that he "got hit" by an errant shot, hopefully it was a Titleist! Pace was a little slow but it was such a nice day it's to be expected. Overall happy, would play again

The blue course was a challenge on the backside but the course was in great shape and was a really fun time.