Ruffled Feathers Golf Club
About
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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Golfer Photos
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Greenside “bunker” Photo submitted by Payton5376752 on 05/30/2026
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Fairway “bunker” 30 yards from green Photo submitted by Payton5376752 on 05/30/2026
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Bunker on hole 1 Photo submitted by chefdanielvogel on 04/11/2026
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Photo submitted by Zach1284073 on 10/06/2025
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We did have heavy rains the day before but I’ve played this course multiple times bunkers need work everything else is great Photo submitted by hockeynb on 04/04/2025
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All bunkers look like this Photo submitted by Allenjackj on 10/11/2024
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Photo submitted by goodybank on 06/26/2023
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Photo submitted by goodybank on 06/26/2023
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Photo submitted by goodybank on 06/26/2023
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Photo submitted by Fiddler71 on 06/05/2023
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Photo submitted by rwtsang on 10/01/2021
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Photo submitted by u314161153720 on 05/10/2021
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Weeds growing all over a bunker Photo submitted by 6nkm7chAB4GXOL8PCerz on 08/22/2020
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Par 3, 11th. Photo submitted by mleahy11 on 09/08/2013
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Island Green Hole - Not looking so good. Photo submitted by leathtech on 07/22/2013
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Drop zone really??? Photo submitted by leathtech on 07/22/2013
Golfer Reviews
Beautiful, but diabolical
This truly is a beautiful and challenging course. My friends and I had a very good time, but I'll wait to go back until my game improves.
Great Dye Course
Great golf course that was well maintained. Had well groomed fairways, tee boxes, and greens. I liked how they provided a yardage distance from tee to pin on par 3s. A Pete Dye course that will prove challenging, but playable for almost all golfers. Will be back.
Challenging course
Interesting course for my first time playing a full 18. All my buddies said it was hands down the most difficult course they have played. Fun time!
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.
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.
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.
havent been back for 5year's
liked the course ,wished the gps were back they werent on the carts this time
Awesome
Just an amazing course, I cannot believe I have not played it until now. Highly recommend
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.