Mt Prospect Golf Club

When playing a bucket list course, and assuming you can, put this one at the top! Old Course. History. Prestige. Charm. Setting. Quirkiness. Subtle strategy. Greens. Town.

It was my first time playing this course and was very impressed with it. The practice area is huge with a nice short game area and large bent grass driving range. The course is equally impressive with winding fairways, strategically place bunkers and nice mounding between holes. The greens are challenging, which makes up for the shorter 6,300 yard course. Course is in great shape for only being open about a year. The renovation was well thought out and I recommend it to anyone who wants to practice or play at a first class facility.

Great course. I like the the new design. New course offers a challenge. Definitely will be back to play it again.

I live in the city, so I don't have many good courses close to me. This is my favorite course that is close to the city for many reasons. It is playable for golfers of all skill levels, and they keep the course in excellent condition. Looking forward to getting back there real soon!

Mt. Prospect Golf Course will give you a solid test of golf. What it lacks in length it makes up for in strategically placed bunkers and contoured greens. Overall a good test of golf, and a pleasure to play.

As a guy who loves to find the most challenging and fun courses in the NW burbs, I was very impressed with the new MPGC. Greens were challenging and in good shape. New hole layouts a big improvement. Will be back soon!

This course is the best in the area by far. The new green complexes creat so many fun shots that challenge golfers of all skill levels. It is always in immaculate shape.

Mount Prospect is a lovely course. In the middle of a city but feels miles away. Challenging yet player friendly. I would recommend this for any type of golfer.

Went out and played this course on a Tuesday afternoon and couldn't have been more impressed. The course was in great shape and had fantastic pace of play. The greens are tiered which make's it a player's dream needing to be precise with your approach shots in order to get a birdie. If you are an accurate driver you set yourself up for short wedge shots into the green and can score from there. Overall amazing course and amazing staff. Would definitely recommend playing here.

The course is great and tight. The greens are difficult. Hit the wrong tier and you are in for a three putt for sure

Best public course around ..

I have never written a review before as i generally like to play any and all courses and think they are all great in their own way. But this course i just had to write a review on as the greens are unlike anything i've ever played before. I'm a 6 index and definitely a below average putter, but, and i'm not exaggerating when i say this, these greens are laughable they are so hard. See attached pic, about 80% of the greens are like this on the course. They apparently just put a lot of money into the course and the greens and i honestly think they overdid it on the greens. That said, the rest of the course is great...it's a shot makers course so it's tight and short. I was just frustrated today as too many close shots rolled 30 feet past into a crevasse due to these ridiculous greens. Good luck out there!

The transformation at the Mt. Prospect Golf Club from the old course to the newly renovated course is night and day. The practice facilities are top notch with a large bent grass driving range, huge practice putting green and beautiful short game area with a bent grass approach and bunker.

The course itself went being really flat and boring all over from the tees all the way to the flat, circular greens to having beautiful mounding with all long grass all around the course giving it some character. All 18 greens are replicas of greens from around the world, which is really cool. The greens are challenging, but that is what makes the course. The course itself is only 6,300 yards long so a good drive leaves you with wedge in your hand on most holes so the challenging greens make up for what the course lacks in distance. A perfect formula from a perfect course.

Conditions are pretty good considering the extremely hot, humid and rainy summer they had to deal with trying to grow everything in. Remember, the course just opened last August! Give it another year and by next fall the course should be in perfect condition. So if you are looking for nice course and/or practice facility, I strongly recommend you give MP a try.

Great neighborhood course and incredible value for the money. Grounds crew does a great job and course is always in private club condition. Practice facilities are second to none in the area with an all grass range and large putting and short game greens. A must play!

Tight but playable redesign. Pace of play exhausting with no ranger to move a slow threesome that backed up the course.

For $35 it was hard to beat. The greens were brutal. hardly a flat putt all 18 holes. Could have been a little less undulation in the greens to make it a little more playblable.

Good course. Tight course, large greens, and many sand traps . Sand was raked and in good condition. Greens were very difficult to putt- sloping and long putts very difficult.

Really I enjoyed my round yesterday.

Mt. Prospect's recent redesign resulted in a course that's in extremely nice shape (for the time being). Have a feeling conditions will deteriorate over the next few years due to the amount of play it gets...tees/fairways are in great shape for now but likely will be divot laced in a few years...... Don't get me wrong it's a really fun course to play but I'll agree 100pct with other reviewers.....the undulations in almost all of the greens are way too difficult to navigate for the average muni player and high handicappers will take forever to get around the track. Getting from tee to green is fine but observing other groups on the course it takes forever to hole out and also observed a lot of frustration (3 putts and 4 putts galore)....golf should be fun. Having course knowledge helps but why design greens where it seems you need luck rather than skill to not have your ball end up in an area of the green where you can't even putt and or get a putted ball through the fringe to even stop within 20 feet of the hole. I really was tempted to take out my lob wedge from 45 feet on the 11th green just so I could have a reasonable chance to get the ball to 5 feet or less....and there are several other green sites where this same condition could happen quite easily. The 2nd hole a long 400 yard plus par 4 the flag was in the back right and you have a 7 yard by 7 yard upper tier to hit with a long iron/hybrid fairway wood approach to even have a reasonable birdie putt? 5 star conditions and amenities at this track. 2 stars on the redesigned greens.....you should get a free beer if you don't 3 putt at least once....no 3 putts would be quite an accomplishment for any golfer playing this track. I'll definitely return to Mt. Prospect because I do like challenging greens.....our group had a great day and it's a very pretty golf course.

Played here several times since renovating in 2015 after never playing it before. All I can say is this is a fantastic golf course for anyone that appreciates turn of the century (Raynor, CB MacDonald, etc) architecture. Having played some of the great originals (Yeamens Hall, Chicago golf, country club of charleston) this is right up there in terms of layout, playability, and most important incredible green complexes. A must play for any Raynor fan, even though it's not a Raynor.

The downsides: pace of play is a death march! Incredibly difficult green complexes slow down the traditional clientele, which are typically older due to a whopping 6300 yards from the tips. And the greens themselves are beat up. Not so much at the beginning of the year but when I played yesterday they looked like no one has ever repaired a ball mark, which is the greatest shame because these greens were far and away the best I had ever played on a muni and rivaled some legit private clubs!

Overall a must play for a shot maker or a fan of old school architecture