Big Run Golf Club

Classic golf course, a true test, find out where your game stands on this course. The course was in great shape, rangefinders on the cart worked.

Had an amazing time at big run

Weather was perfect course was green am in great shape

Not only a challenging course but a beautiful layout too !

This course is challenging and some of the holes are long! That is what I love about this course, it goes up and down, not just flat some of the other big name local courses. I just started playing this course this year and have logged about 6 rounds. It is challenging but the course needs some attention to maintain its infrastructure. A few times I wondered if my cart would make it over the old wood bridge. Aside from that, I have no complaints and I would highly recommend this place. Cannot wait to come back and play it again and again and again! The staff is super friendly. Cannot comment on the restaurant as I did not use it.

Course infrastructure (bridges, retaining walls) is a bit run down. The course itself was in good shape. The layout is great with hills, elevated tees, and trees. GolfNow had the course for $40 which is reasonable. The walk-up rate is $63 which is too much for this course.

Great place and if I had the extra bucks I would but it and make it a real nice joint but it needs lots of Tlc.. it’s a big place so the room is there

8 and 9 fairways were worse than others

Overall very good experience

This was my first time playing at this course and I was almost rained out. Fortunately, I got out on the course and definitely enjoyed myself. The course has some incredibly long par 5's, many dog legs, and a good mix of water and sand hazards.

The course was not in the best condition, partly because of the heavy rain but there were also many chewed up tee boxes and the fairways were a bit beaten up as well.

Overall, I enjoyed playing this course and would go back. However, I would say book this course as a "Hot Deal" for around $45 for a round with cart, the regular price is closer to $70 which is far too expensive for this course in its current conditions.

Old course with great overlay of holes

Great condition as well

I've played at Big Run since 1979. One of my favorite old school clubhouses in Chicago. Proshop, bar and locker room pretty much as is since it was built in the 40's or 50's. Might even be older than that. Course conditions vary from year to year as Big Run has never had a full blown sprinkler system. Bunkers are hit and miss in regards conditions. Greens are slower than most places and pretty smooth - if they cut them any closer you'd have all kinds of folks complaining how unfair they are. A wonderful routing that's changed over the years....some of updates unfortunately a bit over the top. For the first time in years the 18th fairway is in decent shape,...not a swamp and cut almost all the way out to Long Run Creek. Do yourself a favor and play the green tees. The Par 5's then become fun versus having to blast 3 shots to get to the green.....3 of the Par 5's play especially long from white and orange. Note - from the greens it's still over 130 slope and almost 6200 yards. Rough is overly lush this year and does need a trim as it's difficult to find balls that venture off the fairway in some areas. Fairways are bit sketchy but remember - there's not a full blown sprinkler system....so Big Run plays/looks and feels different each season....which is just part of it's overall beauty and charm. Overall 3.5 stars but personally I like Big Run a lot. It's a course I always enjoy playing and I've played it easily more than 50 times.....so it's a 4 star for me regardless of what others think of it.. Highly recommended for avid golfers and any avid golfers in Chicago land are really missing the boat if they haven't ventured to Big Run. It's better than Cog 1/3, Gleneagles and I would put it on par with Ruffled Feathers modern design versus the muddled sort of old school you get at Big Bad Run.. Try to play it during the week especially in the afternoon. On weekends it's likely a very long 5 hour round due to the difficulty of the track. We had a noon tee time finished in 330 and played at what we thought was a leisurely pace. Cheers!

Car path and rough coniditions must be maintained much better.

This course was recommended to me by a friend, but I do not think I will be returning. The course just overall felt "weathered" and outdated. I was told by someone on the course it's been up for sale a few times. The course is in decent shape and has a lot of challenging holes with water and trees. The "hot deal" rate was very nice and if you live near the course worth it, but I think it's not coming from Chicago.

Fair ways need attention rough grass is high hard to find Balls n hole pin placement is tough.

I used to love this course but the fairways were more like roughs. Weeds were growing on the fairway on one of the nicest weekends like it hasn’t been cared to for weeks.

Overall fun but the course conditions were extremely poor for the price

This course is long, challenging, and in pretty good shape. A lot of other courses you can get to par 5s in two shots but with 600 yarders here you need to play more strategic. I also like that they have a 200 yard par 3. They space tee times out enough where we never really had a long wait until we got to 14 because one slower group caused a bit of a log jam. I plan to add this to my consistent rotation of courses.