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707 Reviews (707)
5 Stars
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4 Stars
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3 Stars
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2 Stars
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1 Stars
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Conditions
3.3
Value
3.3
Layout
4.4
Friendliness
4.2
Pace
3.5
Amenities
3.6
58.3%
Recommend this course
508 out of 707 reviews
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3.5
22 Reviews (22)
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Conditions
3.3
Value
3.2
Layout
4.1
Pace
3.2
Amenities
3.7
StaffFriendliness
4.2
54.5%
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12 out of 22 reviews
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3.6
52 Reviews (52)
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4 Stars
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3 Stars
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Conditions
3.3
Value
3.3
Layout
4.4
Pace
3.5
Amenities
3.7
StaffFriendliness
4.3
55.8%
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About

Holes 18
Type Semi-Private
Par 72
Length 6898 yards
Slope 140
Rating 73.7

Ruffled Feathers Golf Club in Lemont is conveniently situated just a half hour outside downtown Chicago. Pete Dye and his son P.B. collaborated to design the course, making it the only Dye design in the Chicago area. A well thought-out strategy will be greatly rewarded on this challenging layout and bad shots made without any thought will be severely punished. This is definitely not a golf course where you can just grip it and rip it. The fairways are fairly straight and forgiving, but most of the approach shots play to tricky elevated greens. There are also strategically placed bunkers framing the greens and water hazards come into play on several holes as well. Ruffled Feathers Golf Club's par 3s have a reputation for being particularly challenging. But depending on how windy it is, the final hole might present the most formidable challenge.

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Course Details

Year Built 1991
Fairways Bent Grass
Greens Bent Grass
Golf Season Open: 4/01 Closed: 11/01
Architect P. B. Dye (1991) Pete Dye (1991) Chris Gray (2010)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - included in green fees
GPS Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Amex Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Dress code Collared shirt, slacks or bermuda length shorts

Food & Beverage

Bar, Catering

Available Facilities

Clubhouse, Banquet Facilities
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3.6
707 Reviews (707)
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Conditions Excellent
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Layout Excellent
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1.0
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Poor condition

Greens were in really bad shape. Bunkers were awful; weeds growing in many of them. Just doesn’t seem like anyone’s paying attention to the poor condition parts of this course are in. Tee boxes and fairways were fine, mostly, other than a lot of random ground under repairs and holes. Too bad. Course would be really good if it were in better condition. Staff was nice. Food was good.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 15-19
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
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Previously Played

Slow Play

A buddy and I set up a 3:30 tee time hoping to beat the twilight crowd. Ended up waiting on every tee box for 3-5 minutes.

Made it to the 17th hole par 3 to find a group On the green, group on the tee box, and another group before us.

We ended skipping the last 2 holes because it would have taken 45-50 minutes to finish.

We love to course layout and conditions, which is why we chose it, but skipping holes instead of finishing is frustrating when a twilight rate is still $50.

Couple of other notes that the 11th hole par 3 tee box was so beat up from divots that we had to move back 5-7 feet. The tee box on 15 slopes away from your feet on a par 5 so just little things like that irk you.

A plus side was that all the par 3s were measured to the pin with yardages at the tee box.

Would have been nice to have a ranger out there pushing some groups.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
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Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
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Previously Played

Not up to par for the money

Granted it rained but the conditions of the course were very poor and for the green fees it was not worth it. I played thus course 20 years ago and it was beautiful but it has not been kept up well.

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

havent been back for 5year's

liked the course ,wished the gps were back they werent on the carts this time

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
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First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing

Awesome

Just an amazing course, I cannot believe I have not played it until now. Highly recommend

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 30
Handicap 15-19
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

A once nice course in decline

Another 90's real estate development golf course. Layout winds through multi million dollar homes..

This used to be $80-100 course.

I can see why this course fell out of favor with many golfers. Lax maintenance, like little to no sand in bunkers. Still have a gouge in my 7 iron from the rocks in the bunkers.

A Pete Dye course that could use a few design tweaks, especially on 15 &16. Don't like wildly high swamp grass creating artificial blind shots. Insanely tight lines of play. Bunkers that are not in play

It's worth playing for a good rate.

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 101
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
First Time Playing
Hot weather
Used cart

Tough getting your ball stick on the greens

This Pete Dye designed course is beautiful and challenging. The only drawback I had was due to the slanting of the greens it is very difficult to STAY on the greens. You ball just rolls and rolls off many of the greens. Good shots hitting the green end up not being good shots on many holes.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Enjoyed Our Round/Rude Ranger

Had a great day on a beautiful course.

Course in good shape with the exception of several of the sand traps...Grass and weeds growing in them and were unplayable.

Starter was great and gave us several tips about the course which helped immensely. Ranger was not so friendly...came up to us without even saying hello or asking how our round was going and just said..."You guys having problems?" When I asked what he was referring to he said the 2 hole gap in front of and holding up a the groups behind us. If he would have checked the tee sheet he would have seen that there was a gap at the start...group ahead of us went out 20 minutes before us. As far as holding the groups up...We were a 4 some with a 3 behind us and 2 behind them. At no point was there a good point to let them play through, even at the turn as we all stopped to use the restroom and grab a drink. We made the turn in 2:10 and played in 4:15....Not bad for a 4 some on a course we were unfamiliar with. Had the ranger even been remotely polite I would have had no complaints but we felt rushed after his comments a bit irritated knowing we were actually playing a decent pace. FYI...Guys behind had no issues, I made a point of asking them after the round!

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing
Hot weather
Used cart

Yardage book

I played this course for the first time. A course layout is definitely great and fairly challenging. Just to improve experience (and also speed) for the first-timer, it may be a good idea to put a yardage book on a cart. Since some holes have invisible landing area from the tee, and also there are may sand traps over the course, it would be more fun and speedy if we knew how many yardages and to where we wanted to hit. In some cases, it was difficult to decide what kind of shots we want. I lost some balls which I thought was hit decently.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 90
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing

Great course to play.

Great course to play. Challenging but fair. Must keep ball in play and you should do well. Greens on the day I played fast and required getting use to the first couple of holes. Definitely a must play if not played before. I will play it again. Staff was friendly and they were set up for a safe non contact experience.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 3
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played

Prejudice Staff

I’ve been golfing here for a while now and my first couple experiences was not to bad the course is well manicured and kept up with although the problem occurred in the pro shop. We had a group outing one time involved with our church members and staff, knowing that it can be chaotic sometimes with a lot of guys in the club house we have all the staff more then enough space and time to get us all out and not have any complications. The first problem happened when I was asking one of the staff members if it was ok for my 12 and 16 year old nephews to spectate the tournament that day and he became very ignorant and told us that there’s to many of “You People” asking for to much so I responded to the attitude by asking him what he meant and he then told me you Mexicans drove us nuts. I got very upset and then proceeded to tell the guys to leave because the worker was prejudice. So about 2 days later I called and spoke to a manager and he was very understanding and apologized for the inconvenience and offered us 2 rounds of golf for free. The second problem recently happened today June 28 2020, I called to make a tee time and the guy sounded very frustrated but proceeded to ask what time. I told him we would be coming in at 1:20 and then he asked how many golfers and what’s your name so I can make the tee time, this is when it happened, I gave him my name (which is a Mexican last name) and he then told me that i should just book online. I then told him that I was there the week before and paid in cash there at the course and he told me he did t know what to do for me and proceeded to be very ignorant over the phone. I then asked to speak to a manager as I was infuriated because I felt it was a prejudice thing again, I notified the manager what happened and he was apologizing over and over again and told me that they have a lot of new staff members and he don’t know why they acted that was as they do take phone tee times. So this was my experience with this golf facility and it was very excruciating to be treated the way I was. I would highly recommend that no one of the Hispanic heritage not golf here because they are very prejudice and obnoxious.

Conditions Good
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Poor
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 12
Handicap 25+
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
4.0
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart

General Overview

Starter/Ranger: Very nice and friendly

Course: Nice layout but rough much too high for the average golfer.

Big Disappointment: I used a gift certificate given to me for my retirement. When I get to the course I find out that there are no rainchecks given. So with the gift certificate of $75 and cart for I think $27.98 we got to play 9 holes before it began to rain. Why then would I even consider going back to play this course? this was a rip off in my mind.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Course conditikns

Tee boxes are horrible.

Lots of area with long grass - seeds on grass.

Browned out greens

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played

Horrible Condition

This course is in really poor shape. The rough is super overgrown and looks like a backyard. Clumps of dead grass all over the place. Sand traps are full of rocks and unplayable. Such a shame for what used to be a good course.

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