Burnham Woods Golf Course

I think this is the worst course I’ve ever played, condition wise and I’ve played hundreds of courses in my life. Don’t bother spending your money or time here.

This course had no difference betweent the length of the grass in the fairways and length of grass in the rough, half the grass on the greens are dead. Tee boxes are awful. Photo is a “fairway”

There are no ‘fairways’ since the grass is not well kept. You’ll hit a drive perfectly and have a 80% chance to lose the ball since the grass is so high. Greens are halfway decent but most are in poor shape.

The grass on the fairways are always a little too rough, far and few low cut. Balls are difficult to find.

This course is comparable to George Dunne with less attention. Remarkable, challenging links course in great shape despite good traffic.

This course is cool because of its small greens and fun layout. The greens do need to be rolled to slow. The fairways the grass is to long they don’t have irrigation system so they leave the fair grass long so fair and the rough are the same you will loose some balls in the fairway. Bunkers are hard like most municipal courses. Al Capone used to live across the street and play is sometimes. Currently it’s in need of some TLC.

The price was just raised to 46 dollars If you don’t get it on golf now.

It’s only worth 25 dollars. It will not be crowded so quick play is possible. Only a few golf now tee times then over priced.

One of the worst courses I’ve ever played. No fairways and the greens are in terrible condition. Trees and leaves scattered everywhere, course layout makes 0 sense. Definitely will never be coming back.

Typically Forest Preserve courses are fairly simple but can be fine for a relaxed round of golf. However, this course was one of the worst I’ve played in 30 years on the links. There are no fairways, grass is the same length everywhere. Tee boxes are completely neglected, over grown and often have tree branches overhanging. No, those tree branches are not a planned obstacle they are there because the course is completely neglected. Greens are chewed up and lined with unrepaired divot marks. On a few holes I even had to ‘scout ahead’ to see where I was supposed to be aiming because it was so unclear. There are only two positives from this course: 1) the greens are small so you can work on target practice and 2) since I know how horrible this course is, I can tell others to save their money.

Very disappointed with the upkeep of the course in general. The tee boxes had several gouges making it difficult to get a good stance. The fairways were not cut short. Lastly the greens had many dead patches. Hopefully, the Forest Preserves will receive financial support from Cook county administrators to help this location like George Dune.

For the price this course is not worth playing for $48

I only played due to the special price of $25. Course is in horrible conditions. You can’t tell fairway from rough. Greens had a lot of bad spots or full of debris. Seems to have the bare minimum up keep.