South at Hickory Hills CC
A view of a fairway from South at Hickory Hills Country Club.
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3.6
665 Reviews (665)
5 Stars
147
4 Stars
220
3 Stars
120
2 Stars
67
1 Stars
111
Conditions
3.7
Value
3.8
Layout
3.9
Friendliness
3.9
Pace
3.8
Amenities
3.2
78.3%
Recommend this course
460 out of 665 reviews
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3.8
20 Reviews (20)
5 Stars
4
4 Stars
12
3 Stars
2
2 Stars
0
1 Stars
2
Conditions
3.4
Value
4.2
Layout
4.1
Pace
4.0
Amenities
3.1
StaffFriendliness
3.9
85.0%
Recommend this course
17 out of 20 reviews
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3.6
69 Reviews (69)
5 Stars
14
4 Stars
34
3 Stars
7
2 Stars
4
1 Stars
10
Conditions
3.6
Value
3.7
Layout
3.9
Pace
3.7
Amenities
3.0
StaffFriendliness
3.7
75.4%
Recommend this course
52 out of 69 reviews
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Course Highlights
Hickory Hills impresses with immaculate fairways, fast and challenging greens, and elevation changes that reward strategic play. Friendly staff, strong value, and rounds consistently finishing under four hours make this course easy to recommend.

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Holes 18
Type Public
Par 71
Length 6018 yards
Slope 116
Rating 67.9
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Hickory Hills Country Club South Course
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Course Details

Year Built 1917
Golf Season Year round
Architect James Foulis

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Appropriate golf attire

Food & Beverage

Restaurant

Available Facilities

Banquet Facilities
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3.6
665 Reviews (665)

What Golfers Are Saying

Course Challenges Include:
Elevation Changes 10
This course/club is great for:
Locals 8
This Course's Location is:
In the 'Burbs 9
Convenient to the City 6

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Reviews 1
1.0
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Previously Played

Do not waste your money

I played this course a few years back and it was in extremely rough shape. I heard they were getting a new superintendent for the course so gave it another try. This is the worse kept course I’ve ever played. The tee boxes are so overrun by weeds and grass when you tee up your ball it is still touching the grass. There is no fairway, there are golf cart paths paved in the middle of the fairway on most holes, the greens are overgrown and have actual divits all over them where you can tell water isn’t being appropriately drained. Absolute garbage pile course.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Good
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Beginner
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Awful

Grass was not cut, the fairways were dug up to heck, and the greens were awful. I'm taking my $ elsewhere.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 11
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Hickory Hills

Course conditions were terrible, tee boxes, rough and greens!!!

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Previously Played

Really Rundown

I used to golf at this course 15 years ago. It was convenient and forgiving, great course for a beginner. I always enjoyed it. My how things have changed. It was significantly cheap but good luck dealing with the poor conditions. They have dig-ups/pits in what looks like water mains being replaced throughout. Dead grass everywhere. Grass growing in what used to be sand traps. Dead grass spots and divots on some greens. Good luck finding a ball off the fairway. Clover and weeds growing throughout the course, even on some of the fairways. It’s unfortunate because this course is where I fell in love with the game. If you just want to work on some shots you can’t beat the price but like they say “you get what you pay for.”

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 15
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played

Fairways in good condition

Greens are in good shape but notoriously very slow

Great value for the money

I only golf this course thru the Golf Now App

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 20
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Previously Played
Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

The course is in bad shape

The course hasn’t been maintained at all. Greens terrible fairways terrible tee box’s are awful all mud. I’m never golfing here again.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Course was terrible, and the greens were even worst. You are literally putting on a carpet.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Windy weather
Used cart

Thirty years ago this used to be a great course.

Granted, we have had a lot of rain lately, but just left or right of the fairway was a quagmire of mud and water on many of the holes. There was no way to retrieve balls hit in these areas without loosing your shoes in the mud.The greens held good shots and putted fairly true, but were very slow. The fairways for the most part were very playable I wish someone at Golf Now would have alerted me to the poor conditions ahead of time, as I surely would not have played here. Also, we were playing fairly fast on the front nine, only to find that the course must have sent players off both the front and back nines, so the back nine played very slowly.

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Previously Played
Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Pathetic maintenance

My 3some probably lost close to 15 balls because of course maintenance. Some holes had Beth Page Black like rough, in some spots there where areas up to my calves. The worst part was the that it appeared that the just dumped cut grass in the rough. I have played 5 or 6 courses this year, none of which did I pay $30 to play 18, and none of them were close to this bad.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Horrible

Course is garbage. Very old and very out of shape. I hit every fairway but still lost 2-3 balls on every hole due to the grass being so out of it. Would never ever step on this field ever again.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played

Terrible

This course is terrible. Lost 12 balls in the fairway. Grass has not been cut in at least 3 weeks. Paid full price on a Sunday and knew it would be cart path only since it had rained a few days before. What they didn’t tell us was that the course was flooded. Gas carts didn’t work, needed to use the choke every time you got in for the whole round. Tee boxes were not cut. June 2nd and no water in any of the water jugs. Should have been a discounted round but in reality they shouldn’t have even been open. Really disappointed

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Should not have opened

Booked through GolfNow. We’ve had a lot of rain over the past few weeks, so on the first sunny day, we grabbed the very reasonably priced tee time. Unfortunately, the course should not have been open for play. Our twosome lost five balls in the first two holes, some of them in the fairway. The fairways were completely flooded, the balls sunk deep in the mud where they landed. A few inches off the fairways, the rough was easily 9 inches long and unless you were standing right on top of it, your ball was lost. The greens were covered with debris from the surrounding trees. We quit after the second hole. Unfortunately, because we paid in advance and the course was open for play, we couldn’t get a refund or even a raincheck.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
1.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Fair
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 25
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played

TERRBLE MANAGNENT

The owner has given up on this course and is squeezing the last bit of profit left. Low mantience, bad managnent, bad amenities. For the cherry on top the strap on my cart broke and my golf clubs went flying against pavement and damaged my brand new M4 driver. Will NEVER be back.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Fair
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 21
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Previously Played
Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Worst conditioned golf course I have played in many years. Over-grown trees render many unfair required shots.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Poor
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