Heritage Oaks Golf Club - Classic 18

Awful experience — we’ll never be back.

A marshal tailed us from holes 2 to 5, pressured us constantly, and disrupted our game. He waved the group behind us through, hovered over us so closely that one of my partners gave up mid-swing, and kept changing his mind on what we should do. Then he blamed us for slow play — even though the delay was clearly caused by him and the group in front of us.

He showed clear favoritism to four male regulars behind us, while treating our all-female group like we were a problem. His “solution”? Kicking us off the championship course we paid $75 each for, and dumping us onto a cheaper, poorly maintained nine-hole course without our consent. we, as first time visitors, didn't even realize it!

The entire atmosphere was different & poor compared to championship course. We paid $310 as a group — and it felt like we had paid to be disrespected.

We will absolutely neither visit this place again nor recommend at all!

•The marshal was overly involved and repeatedly disrupted our pace of play.

•The delays were caused by the marshal himself, not by us.

•He was polite to certain regulars (older male golfers) but dismissive and rude to our all-female group.

•As a so-called “solution,” he moved us to a lower-tier course we didn’t pay for.

•The overall culture felt unwelcoming to both younger players and women.

I will absolutely never visit again.

$77 was such a waste!!!!!!

There’s a lot to like about heritage oaks. Good range, nice clubhouse, convenient halfway house. However I’ve had too many issues with starting late and slow pace of play. Course gets backed up easily, I think they book every 10 mins so it really shouldn’t be that bad.

Nice amenities and layout. How often do they cut this grass? Long greens

Excellent course for the money! Challenging but not overly difficult. I will certainly be back this summer!

This is one of the best public courses that give you the country club vibe for a great value. Everyone is happy who works there and I will keep coming back for the great golf, great facilites and great staff.

Played here 5/31 and had the worst experience with the ranger that day. I am a woman who is a scratch player so I have no problem keeping pace of play. While waiting on the 7th tee box for the group in front of us to clear the fairway the ranger came up to our group and told me to keep pace of play…. Mind you we finished the front 9 at 1:50 well below pace of play. Where the heck was I supposed to go? Did they expect me to hit into the group in front of us? Long story short I watched this same ranger and he never talked to any other groups. The group directly in front of us was at least one hole behind at all times and he never spoke to them. I simply feel that because I am a woman I got singled out. He then proceeded to get loud with me when I called him out on it and drove away because he knew he was wrong but never apologized. If you are a woman don’t play here unless you want to get belittled

I was expecting a slow pace for MDW but it wasn’t until the back 9 that we had to wait at all. Finished 18 in 4:20. The course was in excellent condition, the pace of play was smooth even though it was a holiday weekend. The hot dogs on the course might be the best in the Chicago area. Friendly staff. I’ve never used their driving range or practice facility but it looks really nice.

I would highly recommend playing a round here! Great course conditions and overall facilities! I’ll be back again this summer!

Heritage Oaks is a straight forward course, i mean that figuratively and literally. No curve balls during the round. Almost every hole plays dead straight (slight bends here or there). Typical back and forth muni course. Slice or hook it off the tee? Go to the next or previous fairway and play your shot. I say all this not as a bad thing however. Heritage Oaks offers a unique set of circumstances to golfers. Due to the lack of OB and simple hole layout, golfers off all levels can play this course without losing more than 1 or 2 balls (if you lose any). And unlike other courses that have this kind of layout, Heritage is actually manicured and clearly loved by the owners. This is the first course that I have played at that was so simple, but didn’t feel like I was playing an unloved muni course. Some fairways and tee boxes were slightly beat up. And the greens did run on the slower side. But this was the first time playing it, and it’s still early in the season. Highly recommend this course to high and mid handicap golfers. Great course to bring someone new to golf if they are itching to play a “real course”. Low handicap players might get bored, but if you are just looking to try to shoot low, you’ll have a good time. Will for sure come back.