Tamarack Golf Club

I played this course 1st time, is a very challenging course take lot of balls because you will loose some at least for the first time until you know the layout.

I did not enjoy playing here as there is lot of water narrow fairways poor markings overall the condition poor.

We teed off at 11:25 and finished at 4:30. Pace of play was very slow but that did not stop the twosome behind us hitting into us on 5, 9, 10, 12 (twice) even after finding out that we were keeping pace with the group in front of us. Also greens had been aerated without sand and rolling.

Pace of play was very slow for this time of year in my opinion. greens are still aerated in may which boggles my mind. Traps were in good condtion. Course is accommodating to the weekend warrior, however a 6 pack of beer for 30$ is extreme. 20$ in the clubhouse, 30$ plus tip from the beer cart lady. craziness! my beer was more than my greens fee. however this is a locals course. will play it again and again! if the price is right!

Good course. Tons of bunkers

This Golf course used to be a very challenging well manicured course, now the tee boxes are horrible the course in general is really bad. It needs a lots of work. Please fix it don't let go down. For the love of golf.

It was good like always just the pace of people was terrible, i know it takes 4 to 4 1/2 hours to play but people loses pace time. Staff always friendly, i will play again this year for sure i like this course because is hard.

Overall my 1st experience here was good. I'll will be back for sure!

Weather great, course good, greens fast and clean, we'll worth it, thanks Tamarack! (and golfnow)

Late October golf in Chicago, in shirt sleeves, is a rare treat. Tamarack was in good shape this late in the season. Greens were particularly good. Tee boxes were a little scrappy. Overall good value for the money.

Great fun! It's been awhile since I played this course and was very pleasantly surprised!

Bought 3 greens fees for a great price the day before. If you can hit the ball straight you will fair well. There is a lot of water and sand around the fairways and greens. Due to the time of the year, the greens were not very good.

Tight fairways, this is a course you may want to hit a few more irons or fairway woods of tee if you are not hitting the driver well.
Love the speed on the greens, sand was in great overall couse was in great shape.

I have played this course since it opened, typically 2-5 times a year. The course has come a long way since I played it in the spring. The greens, fairways, and bunkers were in good shape.
Pace of Play is always an issue. I played as a single mid-day and it took me 3hours to play 9 holes. Other players on the course were jumping around trying to find an open spot to play faster. (this happened to me 2 times while playing)

I think on busy days a ranger would be nice just to keep the course moving and prevent other players from jumping all over the course and creating more problems.

Water jugs and a beverage cart would be nice as well on busy days.

Its a tough course with a lot of water and sand, a few forced carries. its easy to get in trouble. Fairways slope to the water on some holes and its easy to pick up penalty strokes, the average golfer is not getting a great score here.

That being said, fairways and greens were in good shape. The course is well laid out, its fairly picturesque and a pleasant place to play. Discounted tee times through golf now make it a great value. I golf here once or twice a year and would definitely come back. Had a bad score, but a nice afternoon.

We played on a weekday and took half a vacation day, teed off at 1 pm, so it wasn't crowded

...with this course. If its one thing, its challenging. Narrow fairways, fairway bunkers etc. Unless you have complete confidence in your driver, leave it in the bag. We played BLACK tees (1 in front of GOLD) and it played about 6400 yards but with the narrow fairways, said bunkers it seemed to play much longer. Would NOT recommend for beginners. Decent price for a weekend but if you get frustrated easily, find another course where you CAN and WILL hit fairways. No complaints about this place, just very challenging.

I've played Tamarack for the better part of 15 years, and it's quality is not what it once was. The clubhouse is fine, but it's showing its age. The course layout is challenging, but they don't care for the course the way they used to, and it's starting to show. I live 5 minutes from the course, so I play it for its convenience and usual pace of play, but it's starting to head down a slippery slope if their not careful

The course was well laid out.
But the bunkers had been soaked
by sprinklers causing them to be hard crusted and basically unplayable. Several tee boxes were very torn up by previous players and not repaired.
Previous groups dragged their shoes on the greens
making putting harder than it should have been.

I have not played here in 7 + years and my wife and brother in-law had never played it.
We all agreed that we really liked the layout and the design of the course.The condition of the tee's & greens were extremely good for a public course. The traps and rough were kept in quality condition,although a couple of traps could use an additional rake in spots.
We will definetly return to test our skill...it was FUN!

I played the east choose which was very nice looking about two weeks prior to this outing. On the first trip I played the east course, which is shorter than the west by about 800 yards. The east course had plenty of divots ;which was understandable considering the assumed popularity of the course. The east course was easy and maintained to a mediocre level. I played the west course this time and the fairway might as well have been a bunker, with dead grass, geese droppings and some type of fungus all up the middle of the fairway, I started aiming for the rough.

I have played Tamarack several times and always have problems with the water. But, the course is in great shape and a real challenge from the back tees. There was no one there yesterday so I played in 3 hours. Course is in very good shape.