Settler's Hill Golf Course

Interesting course with lots of character holes. Highly recommend. No range and you do not pass the club house at the turn. Normally excellent condition.

A nice place to play anytime

Very nicely kept and the greens were rolling nicely

As a beginner I found this to be a somewhat challenging course, lost a few balls in the tall grass. But it was a surprising enjoyable course with changes in elevation. Looking forward to coming back, the reasonably low prices makes it a big plus on my list of courses.

Settler's is a really nice track if you are a decent player. It was in decent shape....greens were okay and rolling acceptably. Sand traps were fairly maintained except for idiots that refuse to rake them properly. A lot of less accomplished players book at this course and there's plenty of trouble - water, gorse, forced carries and pace killing holes. 3 of the four of the par 5's on this course are way too much challenge for high handicappers and result in a 20 minute plus playing time on each of them. The par 5 11th hole is one of the most penal and poorly designed holes tight tree lined featuring a sloped all of 15 wide yard fairway in some places and you always have a significantly long uphill approach shot (usually from a bad downhill lie) to a severely sloping green surrounded by traps. Do yourself a favor on your approach shot on this hole....just aim left of the green - avoid the traps in front and just let the terrain roll the ball down on the green. You almost can't hit your approach shot too far left on this hole!! Took us 25 minutes plus to play the 11th waiting/waiting/waiting.

No warm up range and my real pet peeve is the almost worthless practice green that's so sloped it screws people up because most of the greens aren't even close to that amount of undulation and it's difficult to get a feel for putts longer than 15 or 20 feet. Greens are easily readable but there are significant breaks if you're in the wrong position. No water on the course and provision up (ask if there is a beverage cart) because the course doesn't return to the clubhouse until after the 13th hole. Beverage prices are a tad steep as well. 3.5 stars plus (the course is really fun to play with good shot values - $30/$35 value) and recommend only if you can play here with a light tee sheet and hope you don't have groups spraying balls everywhere in front of you. Otherwise count on a 5 hour plus round.

Interesting layout, with some great elevated views. Tough slopes on many greens, which can bring 3 putts into the picture. Number 11 requires 3 perfect shots, and even then you need to negotiate the severity of the green.

The previous reviews are correct about the availability of drinking water; you need to bring your own. During our round however, the beverage cart service made frequent visits.

Decent pace of play for a Friday afternoon at 4 hours 20 min, and a friendly starter on number one. Course in good shape.

There was no drinking water anywhere on the course. I used water from the creek to wet my towel to clean my clubs. There is only 1 restroom on the course and that was at hole number 6/8. Course is poorly laid out as the club house is no where near the turn or anywhere close to a hole to make a stop for the restroom or amenities.

I have been playin this course since it first opened and everytime I play it I remember the first time and think back to how much I loved the layout. Back when it first opened it was still very raw and not fully developed, now it is and I love it even more. I wish I didn't live so far away from Settler's or else I'd play it more often! There are some really nicely designed holes with a mix of easier holes and some really difficult ones. Hole 11 from the tips is one of my favorite holes (even not from the tips). Recommended!!!

Course is falling apart. Cart paths were bumpy. hundreds of ball marks on each green not repaired. Very few or poorly seen yardage markers. No GPS. No water coolers anywhere to drink from.

The course is on an old landfill with numerous up/down hill fairways and greens. Both fairways and greens are in good condition. While hilly, flags were visible during play. Due to prior heavy rain 2 holes were very spongy and carts had to remain on cart path.

Course in good shape for this time of the year. Greens in the best shape of all courses played this year.

Course was overbooked, was only able to get 13 holes in, in 4 hours. Don't plan on playing here again.

Miles should be indicted, they won't tell you there are at least temporary tee boxes, the greens are beat to death. Typical of Golf Visions mantra

This the first time I played there this year. I played a few times last season. The condition of the course is considerably worse. There were many tees not used. The ones that were are in terrible shape. Much of it is leveling because it has settled. Muddy areas because standing water. Those should be filled with limestone at least temporarily. Management has to make Herculean effort to take care of these problems. If this park district there is no excuse for these problems to get worse.

Played here years ago, and disappointed in the condition. I understand many tee boxes were reseeded and had to us temporary tee boxes. But many fairways and greens were "chewed up" and very dry. Glad I had a discounted rate, or would have been very unhappy.

This past labor day myself and one other took dozens of pictures and confer that Settler's Hill, in its current, un-maintained condition was the worst course we ever played. If I could give a zero, I would.

We both play 4 to 5 rounds per week at many of the areas golf courses. None, with the same weather conditions subjected, come marginally close in negligence as this course. There is one course in Bartlett, which has historically not been reviewed well. Let’s set the record straight…it is exponentially better maintained than Settler's Hill through Golf Visions management.

I sincerely want readers to understand the extent, from start to finish, of how badly Settler's Hill is being maintained by Golf Visions Management and Kane County Parks.

Candidly, now that I've had some time to consider this, I not only feel it is appropriate that the round attempted should be refunded, but the unused vouchers should be credited/refunded. As it turns out, the weekend tee time rate at the course itself would have been a 20% savings, but I needed to use the vouchers before October 31, 2016 (expiration).

The course website and marketing materials for the deal boast a superbly maintained golf odyssey. This is false advertising.

A complete waste of time and gas/mileage, as well as, the undue frustration resulting from each of our losses of a half dozen personalized Pro VI balls that hit rock hard dirt in the expansive areas in fairways and bounced to who knows where or were marked/scuffed like they hit gravel.

I feel that if you are going to offer golf course deals, they need to be playable courses.

From the time we got to the course and directed to the 'ready' carts it was a nightmare. 1) The carts in the ready line all had mud on the dash and seats and trash in the cup holders, baskets, and storage areas under dash. 2) 95% of the tee boxes were complete disasters. They were either all sand or they were muddy and sandy or they were rock hard with no turf. It was virtually impossible to get a tee to be inserted properly and it was extremely difficult to get sound footing. 3) The grass was unevenly cut, which was obvious that the blades on the mowers needed to be changed or sharpened. There were 2 inch lines of grass that were one to two inches higher than where the blades actually cut. The clippings were not cleaned up and obvious signs that the clippings were long enough to be 2 weeks of growth. The ends of the clippings were not cut they were torn, so the turf that was visible (not much) showed signs of browning from the tearing vs. cutting. The ball could not roll true. Also, the monuments at the tee boxes with various yardage had three or more weeks of high grass around them from where the mowers could not go. Areas were up to 10 feet by 6 feet that needed trimming. 3) 90% of the fairways were 35% or more unplayable. The mowing was uneven and there were expansive rock hard dirt of 20 to 40 yards long by 20 to 40 yards wide (no turf). Many fairways are challenged this time of year, with some burn out, but all of the one’s I’ve played are at least 95% better than Settler’s Hills fairways. Also, there are numerous large tractor tire ruts (damaged areas were up to 8 feet long and 3 feet wide) that were either gaping wounds or filled with water and mud a foot to two feet deep. Since some were filled with mud and water and others were not and since much of the fairway was bone dry, I can only assume the watering program is not properly implemented. 4) 70% of the greens were not puttable. Most greens have some issues, but these were horrible. The pins probably had not been moved around the green in at least a couple weeks. The 6 foot circumference around the pin was damaged with ball marks, soft spikes that had dragged across the surface, putters/clubs banged into the putting surface from other frustrated golfers, and almost muddy around the cup itself on the more shaded greens. A third of the bottoms of the cups had been broken, so that the flag could not sit properly. When the wind blows the flag/pin blows around the edge of the hole, damaging the green surface, and making it virtually impossible to make a good rolling putt drop. 5) The elevated Par 3 #16 Green could not even be seen because there was so many out of control weeds and plant life growing at Tee Box level that the flag itself could not be seen unless you got on the very edge of the elevated area and got on your toes. That being said, it was like a blind shot from the pure sand and hard dirt tee box. How the two foot circumference around the hole could be almost like mud and the edge of the green (30’ x 4’) be burnt out when the hot afternoon sun would be shaded out is beyond imagination. 6) The bunkers were in horrible condition as well, they were likely unattended to for 10 or more moderate to heavy days of play.

This was by far, the worst course I can remember playing, ever!