Far Oaks Golf Club

Have always loved everything about Far Oaks and it's great to see the greens back to perfect shape again. Not sure what happened earlier this summer, but the greens back then were in terrible shape. Not anymore!!!! All the greens were fantastic as they usually are and expected to be. Will be back again and again to enjoy this gem.

When I walked into the clubhouse I opened the door for Hall of famer Marcus Allen,! The young guy in proshop was very nice along with the starter. The greens were horrible,putts bouncing all over, fairways and tees in great shape! I got a hole in one on # 6, at the turn I went into proshop to see if they gave anything away for this feat, older guy was in there around 2 pm he said no and was somewhat rude!!!! It had been 17 yrs since my last hole in one at the Orchards, they gave me a nice plaque to insert ball.

My friend and I played on a Hot Deal, so the price was right; we'd never played Far Oaks before.

Unfortunately, they had just punched and sanded their greens for fall aeration, so that detracted somewhat from our experience, but you have to do that to keep your greens healthy.

I liked the course, but I did get tired of the same type of green structure throughout: every green was a forced-carry raised platform, with little or no opportunity for running the ball onto the surface. The fairways are nice and wide, with very good quality zoysia for great lies. The bunkers looked like they had not had any attention for several weeks. Note to staff: if you don't have the resources to properly care for bunkers, let them become grass bunkers. I also got tired of all the blind tee shots on the Back 9, but that's the way the course was designed. For us, this is a once-a-year course on a Hot Deal.

This is a great course that gets a lot of play, and it shows. The greens are whipped and there’s no reason it needs to be this way. Starter should educate players on what it means to keep pace of play, and how to fix ball marks on the greens. There are several that are really beat up and it’s sad because this is such a great course.

A gorgeous afternoon for golf was spoiled by a close to six hour round. There were no marshalls anywhere to speed up play. No drink carts, either to help while away the 5-minute waits on the tee that started on the first hole and got worse as the round proceeded. Maybe that's because everyone was 3-and-4-putting the pock-marked greens where no one apparently cares about repairing ball marks.

Very disappointing round in what used to be one of my favorite courses to play on the Illinois side of the St. Louis metro area.

Had two groups of four, and spent over $500 and pro shop person only lectured us on pricing and on line pricing, then rented clubs and they shorted us in the set, no apologies, no thanks, rude, greens were horrible, divots everywhere, guy watering green sprayed green as we played, was a puddle, even got us wet, some water coolers were empty, holiday weekend and seemed like they it was a bother for us to be there, certainly wasn't crowded, so thought they might be appreciative we were there, very dissatisfied

The Front Nine Warms you up and The Back Nine Beats Your Brains Out. Great Layout and good conditions considering all the rain. It's a must Play. Down side course has no Marsahls and the pace of play is ridiculous . Four groups on one tee-box on multiple holes.........Really Bad Kind of ruined the round. F+ for the Course staff ...!!!

I love this layout, It contours well to the eye and the greens are challenging. The Only aspect Of This Course I dont like is I don't get TO play it every day

I love the layout of this course.

Tees and fairways are in great shape, greens had a lot of unrepaired ball marks.

Overall, good value for the money.

I'd give the course 4/5 for tees and fairways. Both were in pretty good condition. Unfortunately I'd have to give it a 2.5 at and around the greens. Bunkers are dirt and under filled, greens were running a little slow and bumpy. Guess you gotta pay slightly more and go to Stonewolf to get proper greens and bunkers. I still like the course and once thought of it as Stonewolf with a few less "teeth", but not in its present condition.

Great condition. Everyone very nice to work with.

Fairways were excellent but greens didn't look so good

I love this course. Love the layout, the fairways, the greens, the tee boxes, etc. But until you can figure out how to maintain sand traps there is no way you can be a 5 star course. Still worth playing though.

Bunkers are very hard and in terrible condition.

Greens are consistent, but slow and bouncy.

fairways are inconsistent, but cut nicely.

overall, pretty nice layout and very challenging.

The hot deal made this totally worth it! Super nice course that was in great shape.