Cardinal Creek Golf Course - Center/North

love cardinal creek, 27 hole course. pace of play excellent

Enjoyed playing Cardinal Creek yesterday! Nice course, friendly staff, great value!

This was a great value. Greens in excellent shape for the very dry conditions.

Thanks GolfNow for the $11 hot deal ($15 with fees) at Cardinal Creek. Played the Center/South nines and found them to be in just fine of shape - sure there's clover in the fairways and the lack of rain has the course playing extremely hard and fast. Most courses are playing hard/fast in Chicago this year anyway. I play golf all over Chicago land and overall I'd give this place 3.75 stars....downgrading due to lack of range and the fairways just grass/clover/etc. Our group had a real nice time and enjoyed a Sunday round in less than 3 hours teeing off after 11am. Amazing. The Center nine has 3 par 5's in a row....a first for me but kind of neat as well as 3 par threes of varying length. The South nine has a really strong par 5 and some other pretty decent holes. Found this to be a very decent/fun track to play. Very enjoyable. Traps were okay and the greens were just fine.....rolling well and challenging. The folks in the clubhouse, cart girl, maintenance staff were all extremely nice/welcoming and very friendly. Fantastic. I'll go back to Cardinal Creek again prior to the end of the season for certain!

Took advantage of the hot deal on Independence day with a buddy. Course was fast and dry. New management explained that a lot of upgrades are coming. Need better signage for the direction to holes because of the 3 courses there.

small greens. fairways not well manicured but can't beat it for under 30 bucks. 200, 150, 100 yard markers on most if not all holes. great hotdog at turn with awesome condiment spread.

This course is not too challenging, (as long as you hit em straight), but there are lots of trees that errant shots will find. They need to put some water coolers out, or at least inform players to take water with them. Luckily we did have a bottle of water, or we would have been parched !

Even though this course is in need of some maintenance it is still always a great play. Not much you can do about the lack of water other than water,bull but there is only so much you can do when it's 80-90 degrees on a daily basis and no rain. I expect that when I go back this fall or next spring that it will be in much better condition. Still a an overall 4. Other reviews that state this place is a cow pasture are an injustice to this course. It is by no means a CC that is privately funded and can be in peak conditions year round. If you enjoy a round of golf where the course will challenge you, and the greens roll true then this is your place. Played early in the morning and watched them hand water and hand roll the greens as we played. Keep up the good work Cardinal Creek.

Made a drive out here because I have read great reviews for this course and after playing a round I was very disappointed. The entire round it was like hitting off of dirt. The ground was hard as can be. There were weeds all over the course and it was extremely difficult to tell the difference between the fairway and rough. The greens and bunkers were the only things in good condition. I feel that this course could be very good if they took care of the fairways and rough as well as the greens and bunkers.

Good course layout with 3 different nine options, but I would not be coming back here unless the course was in better condition.

Tried Cardinal for the first time. Drove almost 50 miles. There are much better courses closer to me. Got a nice deal from GolfNow, but there are still nicer courses with equally good deals that are closer to me. There are 27 holes here (three nines), so you would think there would be no waiting issues, especially on a weekday, but we managed to get behind two very slow foursomes which caused an almost 3 hour round for nine holes! Not good. Our second nine went much quicker, as we were no longer behind the slowpokes, having been placed on a different nine than they were. We would have done this ourselves anyway, just to avoid them at all cost. No rangers in sight all day! This nine took only one and a half hours, and we were courteously waved to play through by a very nice group of young women golfers (4). The nines are laid out kind of funny in spots, as well, with golfers on a different nine seemingly coming right at you on occasions, and golfers in carts crossing your fairway, as they play their hole from a different nine. You will need to mind the course map so as not to get on a different nine by mistake. Can be confusing at times. The greens were well watered and maintained, but the fairways....well, there really was NO difference from fairway to rough, as it was all just the same grass in length and texture. And there is just simply too much clover and what I call ground ivy here. My friend lost several balls because of clover camoflage, and that thick ivy-like growth just grabs clubs and causes poor shots. It is not a terrible track, but there are many that are better for the same amount of money. The bar and Pro shop were quite nice, but that only allows for one star, so I give Cardinal Creek two stars. I will probably not come back.

Fairways dried out and hard as a brick. Nice place all in all otherwise.

3 Different 9's to choose from.

Played the Center / North courses and enjoyed the play. We need more rain... course drying out but in good shape

Great value for the money! Greens were in great shape! Fairways, not so much! Looks like they don't fertilize the fairways or apply weed control! Rough was also very high. Made it difficult to find your ball.

Course is under new ownership and they are making great headway to bring it back. In good shape and getting better.

I have travelling senior ladies group and we had not been to Cardinal Creek for a few years., and was so pleased that after a year or two of hardship the new owners have worked extremely hard and that the course is once again back in great shape! The staff is welcoming and eager to please!

I played this course a couple years ago before it shut down. This was the first time playing it since it reopened. The greens were in good condition given recent aeration. The fairways need some work. More than once I found myself hitting out of a patch of dandelions in the fairway. $30 on a Saturday afternoon isn't awful but there are better deals for nicer courses out there. The overall layout of the course is nice and better conditions would have made the round more enjoyable. There were not many people there so pace of play was very good. Staff was very nice and helpful and is the thing that would bring me back.

I had not played the course in many years. As I understand it, the course went bankrupt and was purchased by new owners. They seem to be doing a nice job to improve course conditions. When the round was over the new owner invited me to come back for a hot dog and a beer. Very friendly environment. I will return and play again. I actually played all 3 nines in 4 hours.

Played the course in Mid November and the conditions were ideal. Cant wait to play again next year.

Greens were absolutely superb and challenging. Fairways and rough were ideal cut and transitioned well. This place will be one of my regular courses to play from now on.