Highland Woods Golf Course

I went with a golf league buddy. We like to play on different courses.

We were paired up with a groundskeeper from a nearby course. He was pretty knowledgable about a few courses in the area. Highland Woods is cheaper than most, but they jam on as many groups as they can. There was a 4 groups playing or waiting on the 2nd hole! it finally spread out a bit on the 5th (a long par 5). But backed up for a while again on the next par 3. a group 2 ahead of us was playing tees they couldn't handle, drinking and slowing play with errant shots. The ranger threatened them periodically, but they ignored him. (The manager should have came out to deal with them.) There was over a full hole open ahead of them.

It was about a 3 hour front 9. 1 guy dropped out of their four-some. The 3 continued and we got thru in 2.5 hours.

It makes me sad to read some of the other reviews where people are complaining. After all it is a public course catering to all ages. The greens super has done an excellent job, the head pro Mr. E is very personable and I understand that he is an excellent instructor (from comments I have heard). Last but not least, the staff (starters, etc) are always polite and very helpful. The only negative I have is $5 for cheap beer-lets get reasonable.

GREAT CONDITIONS AND WONDERFUL WEATHER MADE FOR A PERFECT SATURDAY AFTERNOON...

CRITIQUE:

PACE OF PLAY WAS AWFUL, WAITED ON EVERY SHOT, RANGER DID NOT HELP ENCOURAGE PACE OF PLAY ON THE COURSE.

THIS COURSE DESPERATELY NEEDS TO GET RID OF THE "CHAMPIONSHIP TEES" AND ADD ONE MAYBE TWO CLOSER TEE BOXES. WEEKEND WARRIORS SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING A COURSE MUCH MORE THAN 6000 YARDS. TEE IT FORWARD, AND ELIMINATE 6 HOUR ROUNDS.

WE PAID FOR 18 BUT AFTER 4 HOURS, WE WALKED OFF THE COURSE AFTER 12 HOLES.

Pace of play was terrible. We were about 30 minutes late off the first tee, and had to wait at least 10 minutes at every single tee box because the course was so jammed up. There were twosomes playing in between foursomes and the pace of play was not regulated at all. Paid for 18 and called it quits after 9 because we were looking at a 7 hour round.

5 hour round. We waited over 20 minutes on the 8th hole par 3 to tee off. My partner and I were getting stiff waiting. No we were not drinking. The four in front of us dropped after nine. It took us one hole to catch up and wait again. Management has not considered slow play since this has been an issue for years. Cut down the rough to speed up finding balls and being able to advance them. This is not the us open and there is no reason for slow play or no consequence. Ranger? forget about it. We finished at almost 4 pm and the only one there to complain to was the snack shop attendant. Waste of time and money. It may also take some time to get my timing back.

A Monday afternoon round here took almost six hours. The rangers let groups out what seems like every seven minutes, and do nothing to move groups along. We waited on every shot. The par-threes all had five groups on them--one on the green, one waiting at the tee, and three sitting in line waiting for their turn.

Greens are smooth and fast. Great layout with plenty of length for long hitters. Also got my 1st ever hole in 1 on the 8th hole!

the course layout is wide open.Only one hole requires an accurate tee shot.teed off at 11:15,finished five hrs and 10min later.Why?The times are seven minutes apart,which is ridiculous.twosomes were not paired to make foursomes.The twosome in front of me was allowed on the course with ONE set of clubs.Four groups on all par threes.No player assistants.No professionalism.Only interested in the money,not the golf experience.I guess someone has to make enough money to pay the county politicos.That;s the chicago way.Stay away.

For 30 dollars, this was well maintained and beautiful.

Vary Windy day after a ton of rain the previous few days. Course was fine, rough was wet, greens were slow.

For some reason, apparently a Miller distributor has been successful in removing all Budweiser products from the Clubhouse/on course beverage cart. I guess we need to bring our own.

If your idea of fun is waiting 10-15 minutes between every shot, then this place is for you. Had a tee time for 1:07 on a Saturday, didn't tee of until about 130. 13 holes later it was 5:40 and I walked off there. The round was on pace for over 6 hours and not once did I ever see a ranger come to try to speed up play. Somehow there were two twosomes in front of us and I asked the trailing twosome to join with the other group in front of them to at least make a foursome and help speed up something but they said the group in front of them said no. Are you kidding me? Will never return to this place, I have played some slow rounds in my lifetime but never have I had to walk off after 13 going at over a 6 hour pace.

The course was in better than expected condition considering we were playing in February. The pace of play was a bit slow and there was a shortage of motorized golf carts. We will return when it's officially golf season. Great value!

We arrived before our tee time and waited in line to check in at the counter. When we got to the counter it was 2 minutes past our tee time so they told us we had missed our tee time and that we could play at 3. It was 11:22. It is ridiculous that we were penalized when we were on time and only late because they were busy.