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Ruffled Feathers Golf Club
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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.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
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| Championship | 72 | 6898 yards | 73.7 | 140 |
| Back | 72 | 6389 yards | 71.4 | 135 |
| Middle (W) | 72 | 6015 yards | 75.6 | 140 |
| Middle | 72 | 6015 yards | 69.5 | 130 |
| Forward (W) | 72 | 5273 yards | 71.5 | 131 |
| Junior | 72 | 4455 yards | 67.0 | 121 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black M: 74.0/139 W: 79.6/140 | 379 | 361 | 193 | 578 | 467 | 518 | 413 | 220 | 464 | 3593 | 403 | 155 | 380 | 510 | 328 | 510 | 336 | 221 | 462 | 3305 | 6898 |
| Blue M: 71.7/134 W: 76.8/134 | 348 | 328 | 153 | 543 | 440 | 490 | 390 | 210 | 433 | 3335 | 385 | 140 | 317 | 471 | 301 | 470 | 316 | 212 | 442 | 3054 | 6389 |
| Blue/Gold M: 69.5/128 W: 74.3/128 | 348 | 328 | 153 | 543 | 365 | 490 | 373 | 166 | 350 | 3116 | 385 | 120 | 317 | 471 | 301 | 400 | 290 | 145 | 350 | 2779 | 5895 |
| Gold M: 67.2/125 W: 72.1/124 | 341 | 302 | 135 | 450 | 365 | 415 | 373 | 166 | 350 | 2897 | 375 | 120 | 270 | 435 | 270 | 400 | 290 | 145 | 350 | 2655 | 5552 |
| Gray M: 62.7/114 W: 66.4/112 | 205 | 205 | 80 | 426 | 319 | 379 | 345 | 130 | 320 | 2409 | 316 | 74 | 253 | 372 | 207 | 334 | 194 | 96 | 275 | 2121 | 4530 |
| Handicap | 11 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 18 | 6 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
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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
Great Value
First time playing the course and even though it was winter the course was much more playable than many others in the area. Staff was excellent and for practice balls, cart and round was a great value. Would definitely play again
Hi amc89, happy New Year! Thank you for posting your positive review. Our team here at Ruffled Feathers Golf Club is committed to providing high-quality customer service, and we’re thrilled to learn we made a good impression. We look forward to having you back!
Thank you for your rating, and we hope to see you back again soon.
Pace was so slow
We left after 14
4 hours on a Tuesday
mfkrope, thank you for the constructive criticism, and sorry we couldn’t make it a 5 star experience. Your comments will be passed along to the management team.
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The quality of this course has gone down significantly. I love the layout of the golf course for its challenge and target golf. It is fall season and none of the leaves were removed from the golf course. The Geese dung is everywhere.
Need to get this course back to its original beauty.
Speed of play is ridiculously slow. Get the rangers out.
Last but not least, I LOVE the Layout.
The director of golf, who I met after play that day, is a great guy and wants the best experience for the golfer.
CHASM, thanks for the rating. We’d love to learn more about what we did to earn it!
We’re thrilled to hear you had a positive experience. We’d love to learn more about what we did to earn it!
Thanks so much for rating us. Is there anything you’d like to share that we can pass along to the team?
Really appreciate the rating. If there are any details you’d like to share about what we are doing well, we’d love to learn more!
6+ hour round
We got out on a Friday afternoon at 1:30 and the round took about 6 1/2 hours to play and were unable to play 18 due to sunlight. There were multiple two sums playing alone slowing down rate of play. Course maintenance was taking place during the day in the middle of fairways the “sand” is sprinkled over what seems to be concrete.
Not what we were hoping or expecting for premier public course. Very let down. Will not be back anytime soon.
Rainy day
The weather was not great. It started drizzling as we teed off on the first tee, and got heavier as the round went on. By the back nine we were playing in a steady pour. The pace was great, but of course, there was hardly anyone left on the course.
Despite the wet conditions, the course took the water very well. The fairways were very playable and greens were still true. We were impressed at how well the wetlands helped keep the course drained.
Hi u000003680458, we’re thrilled to get this kind of feedback. Thank you for taking the time to review us. See you next time!
Thank you for your rating, and we hope to see you back again soon.
Torn up tee boxes and rock hard, pot marked greens. This course is overplayed. Greens could not hold any approach shots. Not a $100+ greens fee caliber course.
Really nice course. Bunkers are terrible.
Ruffled feathers is one of my favorite courses in the area but haven’t played it in a few years. Snagged an early AM tee time for $119 which I thought was steep for the course as I remembered it but wanted to play it so I payed. The course overall is still good as I remembered. However, the bunkers were absolutely awful. They were extremely hard and some of them had rocks in them. Only a few bunkers were playable and only a few had rocks but for 119 I would expect the bunkers to be in decent shape in the least. So that was very disappointing but that is literally my only gripe that I have.
Price To Good To Be True???
Great Track.
One of my fav’s.
Great Price offered on TeeOff…
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Experienced my all time longest round!!!
A Five hour forty five minute round.
TeeOff/Ruffled Feathers discounted tee time offer followed a shotgun start outing with DOUBLE GROUPS on holes 1-13.
A lot of wrong here… even employees agreed.
Not the first time this has happened at this course.
I guess shame on me.
Late Start Meant Couldn’t Finish 18
I had a12:57 Tee Time. When I checked in, I was told there was a 15 minute to half an hour delay. Fair enough as there was a VFW outing. Unfortunately I had a hard stop at 5PM. Bottom line is that we teed off on the 4th hole at 2:15. Jim, the starter, was great, explained everything and did his best to make a bad situation as good as possible. Moved along well but after finishing 18, we see there was a group on the first tee so we were done as we couldn’t poke through the first 3 holes.
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Thank you for the 5 star review amc89! We look forward to seeing you at the club this year.