Highland Woods Golf Course

I've played Highland Woods multiple times. I've always liked the layout and it's not to far from where I live. On this day I have a couple complaints. I was low on golf balls so I decided to buy a sleeve at the course. I should of went somewhere else because they didn't carry the type of ball I use and I was charged $12.00 for the sleeve (3 NXT Tour S balls). That's WAY to expensive. It should be more like $6.00. Granted I played a day after it rained, but the overall condition of the bunkers was bad. One instance, I hit into a green side bunker on 16 and there was a pond in the bunker. It was deep, muddy and I wasn't able to see my ball or even rake it out. Beyond that my experience was fair. I'd play the course again, but I will not be buying golf balls or be playing when there has been rain.

Staff is friendly. Course conditions good except greens are too slow

After taking 4:40 minutes to play 14 holes I had enough. The Rangers told me that 5 plus hours is a typical round of golf on a public fee golf course in the Chicago area. Really! Not at any course I play at Their pace is plus 6 hours and they just don't care and think it is fine.

Your Rangers are clueless and seem to enjoy themselves riding the new surfer like carts. They sure don't try to speed anyone up. We were timing the group in front of us and they were taking 7-9 minutes once the reached the green That is about 2:30 hours just on the greens. The ranger not once said a word to them

You have zero respect for your paying customers

I would not play here again if you paid me

You should be embarrassed

Played on a Friday afternoon and it was a 5+ hour round. Maybe the low greens fee attracts a lot of bad golfers? It's a very nice layout on forest preserve land and no houses to worry about. Every hole is different and it is challenging. My only complaints are that the greens were somewhat slow and the sandtraps were very hard without much sand.

I enjoyed to play at your course.

Great Course, Friendly Staff, and beautiful landscape

OK, A very good round, course was in very good condition.

Course in good condition greens little slow no rangers at all 5hours to play on a Monday unacepable

They had aerated the greens and the greens were very bumpy and sandy. It was very slow to play, over five hours. my recommendation would be go early

I haven't played this course in years because the pace of play was so incredibly awful. I thought I'd give it a shot again, and I will never go back. When we got to the 1st tee box right on time for our tee time, we learned there were FIVE groups still waiting to tee off! There was no starter or rangers either, so it was a free for all. You have NO SHOT at playing a round under 6 hours at this track.

The course was in adequate shape for the time of year/weather, and there is a big driving range. Do yourself a favor though - if you make the mistake of playing this course, block your whole day off and don't plan on being to get into any sort of swing rhythm.

The Good: Decent forest preserve country course located very close to I-90 West. Expansive layout is pretty secluded and devoid of housing, which is a nice plus. Fair conditioning and large, slick greens that can be very challenging. Layout is relatively wide open, with huge sand traps as the main barrier to a good score. Very strong Par 5's, a couple of good Par 3's on the closing half, and fair variety in the Par 4's. Practice facility includes driving range, putting green and short game area. Value at under $60/hr is good for quality of course.

The Bad: Overall amenities are lacking, which is expected from a city course. Clubhouse is very limited and does not have large sitting or banquet area. Poor yardage markers and no GPS. No restroom areas on-course. Staff is nice enough, but slow pace of play is not managed. Too many uphill forced carries for the average golfer.

The Verdict: Highland Woods is a fairly average course for the western Suburbs. Good course to play if looking for relatively stress free round (unless the wind blows!), but don't expect to finish in 4 hours.

Best Hole: The long, dogleg right Par 5 is a significant challenge. Drive must avoid trees left and water right. Approach shots are very tough.

We had an 11:25 tee time on this course. We arrived to find that we had a 1 hour wait because frost had set back tee times. It was November 14. Why was frost a surprise to the staff? This course was overbooked without regard for the golfers. The first tee had 7 foursomes waiting on it. We left because we wouldn't have been able to finish our round. Nobody was allowed to tee off on 10. This was handled terribly and was a late season money grab. I am not happy that I lost $10 on a booking fee. I learned a few lessons that day and won't patronize either places again. Golf now or Highland Woods.

3 minute intervals between tee times?? Yes sir. At highland woods anyone can experience a 5.5 hour round when greed takes over on a nice November afternoon. This was apparent upon pulling into the parking lot when there were no golf carts at the clubhouse. No golf carts? Yup. They were all out on the overbooked course. Had to wait to load bags until a previous 4 some finished their 5 plus hour round. And they could flip the cart still loaded with garbage. Absolutely tragic what they will do here for a few extra bucks. And again. 3 minute intervals for groups of 4. Won't be back no matter the rate. Horrible extended round.

2 hour 40 minute front nine on a Wednesday afternoon with no ranger in site.Spoke to someone at the turn.He went out to look for problem. 2 hour 20 minute back nine.

We had a 1:30 tee time. There was myself and one person on the tee time. It took us over 5 hours to play 18 holes and barely got the round in. One employee came out and asked how it was going, on the 7th hole. We told him there was 1 group slowing everybody up. He said he would see what he could do. We never saw him again for the rest of the day. On the 17th tee, a par 3, there was 3 groups waiting for 1 foursome to finish the hole. If they would hire a ranger to keep the pace of play at a reasonable rate, we might go back. However, this is not the first time I have had trouble with pace of play at Highland Woods. Therefore, I do not recommend this course.

It started off badly as they were backed up 10 minutes. We had to wait to tee off on literally every hole. I teed off at 1:30 (tee time 1:10) and finished the front nine at 4:50. Only made it through 12 holes be size I had to make dinner reservations. I couldn't believe they didn't have a ranger pushing the pace. The group in front of us spent way too much time looking for their balls. Bad experience.

Fun, scenic, challenging. Wide open driving areas with some strategic bunkering here and there. Some greens have very challenging pin positions but the greens are receptive and hold well. Good course for the money.

This course was definitely not worth the money. $16 course at most. Green and rough in terrible condition.

Tee time was at 12:30. Course was backed up 25 minutes because they refuse to separate their tee times correctly. They are too close together which just bottles up everything. The groups ahead of us were awful the ones behind us hit into us on #2 as we waited for the group ahead of us to clear the green. Anyone who has played here before knows number 2 is a blind tee shot because of the dog leg but we stood on top of this hill making sure they saw us and they still hit. Moral of the story is people that play here don't know the game or rules which brings the overall experience down. 90 minutes in and we were getting off 4 green. We quit after that and got our money back. I will never be back.

Did not have golf carts for guests and were 50 minutes behind to start the round. The course is nice but todays round was very disappointing/frustrating. Guests began to leave which is rare to see here.

First time for my foursome here and probably the last on a Saturday. Putting tee times 7 minutes apart on a Saturday is crazy. We started our 8:07 am tee time at 8:23am already two groups behind first thing in the morning and it was slow all day because of too many people on the course. Nearly a five hour round, waiting on every shot, never saw a Marshall to monitor speed of play. Besides, the issue was not the speed of the players, the problem was just too many players put out too close together. We really liked the course but it is unlikely we will be back, especially on a weekend until they go to 10 minute tee times.