Ravisloe Country Club

Course wasn't in the best shape, certainly not as good as usual. However, early in the season, and greens hadn't been cut yet. Front 9 pace was great, however, backed up later in day as a foursome wouldn't let a twosome play through. Ranger would have been helpful.

Challenging course at reasonable rate. What more can you ask for? We will be back

Course was in good early season shape. Greens rolled surprisingly well.

Just wanted to take a minute to thank the young starter that came out on such a cold day. He was nice enough to give us a cart with a wind cover on it. Sure made the morning more bearable!! Course was in great shape but frozen. Still had a nice time.

While we all experience frost delays in the Chicago area during this time of year, sometimes the management and rangers need to coordinate to do things and treat people equally, whether it is a paying customer or your employees. Several customers who have already payed and have been waiting over 1 hour watched one of your employees drive out to the tenth tee and start playing while over 16 people stood at the first tee and were not allowed to tee off of 10th hole after your employee started on the 10th hole. The excuse we were given by the ranger was that he was an employee only playing 3 holes before he starts working at noon! Are you kidding me? And then you do not allow payed customers to follow an employee that conditions were playable for him to tee off at 11:10. Unbelievable. I play this course 7-10 times a year and I often bring and pay for my father in law. Let’s call it a dozen rounds a year, plus beverages, lunch from time to time and range balls as well. That is $1,000 of my business alone that you will never see from me. We left your course with a rain check because we were told a refund was not possible. Crazy. We left and walked onto Coyote Run at 11:35 and finished before 2pm. I will play your course one more time with my rain check, but will never spend another dollar there. Shameful

Kudo's Ravisloe management! The staff was exceptional. Although we played on a Golf Now tee time we were treated like a member. Thanks for stepping up your game.

Finished a 4:45 hr round. There were no Marshall’s on the course almost every hole from the 2 hole on we had 2-4 4 sums on every hole. Finally i called the pro shop on hole 11 because we had 4 4sums on this par 3 hole. Some guy showed up talked to 2 groups and left, but never monitored their pace. One person in our 4 some quit playing after hole 12 due to very slow play.

This course is always a challenge. It’s not terribly long, but you’ll be in trouble if you get yourself in the rough or the ever challenging bunkers. The greens were in great shape and running fast today. I went out today with one other person and flew through the course in 3 hours on the dot, no one in front of us or behind. I’ve never had an issue with the pace of play here. I was able to catch a really good deal on the course thanks to GolfNow, but I think it’s usual price of $60-$75 is a bit steep. The club house is a bit dated and could use a face lift, but it’s still a very nice clubhouse. The range is a little small and you have to take a short walk or drive a cart to get there. The staff at the course are incredibly friendly. The starter has been the same person everytime I’ve been here, always friendly. As we ended our round I talked about going to the range and was given a token for a bucket of balls by one of the staff members. A small gesture that goes along way to make me want to come back and play again. Overall it’s a nice course and very worth it if you can get it for a reasonable price. It’s definitely worth trying out as it’s one of the nicer courses in the area.

If you are playing Ravisloe on a discounted tee time, be prepared to be treated like a second class citizen. Class up Ravisloe, you can do better.

I hadn’t played this course in 5 years and thought it was a lot of back and forth. Boy was my memory long. For a 6200 yard course, we all thought it played a lot longer. The course was tight but fair. Despite lots of rain, the traps had been racked and the tee boxes and greens were in great shape.

Considering its distance, Donald Ross did an excellent job placing the sand traps as you might have to leave the driver in the bag on some of the par fours.

We will be back!

First of all, I play at the course every weekend around 9AM. I have been very happy with the course till last year before they increased the greens fee. This year they decided to increase the fee which is fair since they told me the reason behind the price hike was new GM and renovation for greens. Let me say that again, they increased the price so they can make the greens better…… I have been playing since the season open back in April. The speed of the greens is getting slower and slower…. It simply does not roll. There is no such thing as a down hill putt. It doesn’t roll so you still have to think it as a flat putt.

I have tried to contact the GM, head professional, Greens superintendent, vice GM via Email multiple times to raise a concern. I sent 5 emails so far and I didn’t receive a single response back. Imagine a job where you get to ignore your customers and boss; I would love to work in that job. Everytime I play with people I do not know, I ask what their opinions are about the greens and they say the same thing. IT IS OVER PRICED FOR THE SPEED OF GREENS.

I was finally able to talk to the GM one random afternoon on Saturday. He said the greens didn’t roll since their greens roller was broken. He said “it is fixed now, so it will be faster from now on.” This happened in June…………. Now it is end of August, no change…..

I used to love playing at Ravisloe, but now I feel like they are just taking advantage of the players. They really need to understand that for $80 there are courses where they have way better course maintenance especially for greens. (ex. Bowes Creek, Deerfield, Arrowhead, mt preserve at oakwood). Please at least once, respond back to the customer’s feedback and actually try to make the course better…. If the greens superintendent cant do it, maybe it is time to find for a new one.

Course was in great shape. Played as a twosome in 3 hrs 40 min. Can't wait to get back there soon

Ravisloe lived up to its reputation as being an outstanding "old course." Tee boxes, fairways, rough and greens are very well-maintained. Greens a touch slow but this is by design because they get a lot of play, but the are in great condition and roll true. Water on only one hole; lots of trees, but fairways are of a width where if you hit your tee shots "relatively straight" you should be playable most of the time. Certainly worth the trip to play one of Illinois' top old courses!