About
Chevy Chase Country Club (formerly known as Traditions at Chevy Chase Country Club) in Wheeling is one of Chicagoland's top public golf facilities. Thomas Bendelow designed the golf course in 1925. The classic layout remained largely the same until 2002 when a major renovation updated the course and made it more challenging. The layout now has deep pot bunkers lined with tall native fescue that border the generous, rolling greens and undulating fairways. Though it is more challenging than it was, the golf course still offers a player-friendly round. Four sets of tees also ensure that golfers can play to their skill level. The course finishes with its signature hole, a par 5 that features water both left and right of the landing area off the tee. Three massive bunkers and yet another pond all fiercely guard the green as well.
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Golfer Photos
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Photo submitted by RealtorDavor on 08/19/2026
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Photo submitted by evanmelchior24 on 08/01/2025
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Photo submitted by Tbao511611 on 06/09/2024
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Photo submitted by andrewdecker3 on 03/31/2024
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Photo submitted by aalbrecht11 on 06/20/2022
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Photo submitted by aalbrecht11 on 06/20/2022
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Dead Beer! Photo submitted by dcantor17 on 03/21/2022
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View from path heading back to clubhouse Photo submitted by howschultz on 07/16/2021
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#9 lol at the clubhouse Photo submitted by ndtong on 05/31/2021
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Quick snap at the turn Photo submitted by ndtong on 05/31/2021
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Philly Cheese Steak Photo submitted by ndtong on 05/31/2021
Golfer Reviews
Rude and Ineffective Staff
We went out on a Saturday. Two men and two women. The women will be the first to tell you they aren't good at golf. We wait on the first hole and tee off. The women are trying their best but not advancing the ball very far. The ranger comes up to the men, ignoring the women, and says this can't continue. Either they need to go faster or we need to pick up and tee off at the end of the day. This ruined the day for the women trying to get into golf.
I understand and appreciate better pace of play. If we were holding up the whole course with holes wide open in front of us, I'd be mad at us too. However, that wasn't the case. We were always waiting on a group who was waiting on a group. By the way, I never saw the ranger even try to go to the groups of men in front of us to tell them to pick up their place. Easy to target women for the guy, I guess.
It seems like this is one of the many courses trying to maximize profits by charging you way more than their course is worth and packing tee times as closely together as they can. That's a course issue. That's a management issue. It's certainly an issue with that ranger. I hope he feels really strong and powerful knowing he showed those women they don't belong on his course while ignoring the slow pace in front of us.
Needless to say, we won't be back. I'd encourage you to not go either.
GREAT COURSE ONE OF OUR FAVORITES
We play here at least 5 times a year and love everything about it
Great conditions and pace of play and excellent staff as well
Even referred our niece who got married here this summer
Would recommend highly and will be back soon!
Great place
Play here about 4-5 times a year. Never fails to impress me. Greens were a bit rough, mostly from people dragging their feet and not fixing their divots. Love this place and highly recommend!
Chevy Chase
Course was in really nice condition. Greens rolled nicely, fairways and tee boxes were lush, and bunkers were well kept. Only criticism was that the course was maybe a little too soft on the day I played, but that’s me nitpicking.
The layout isn’t very difficult, as the majority of holes are straight and not super long. If you keep the ball relatively straight off the tee and are smart about what club you tee off with, you should be able to score pretty well.
Overall this place was great. The bar had a nice deal on beer buckets, they had coolers on the cart for drinks, and the hot dogs were solid. The carts had a nice GPS system as well. Only bummer was not having a range, so I hit some balls at a range about 10 minutes away on my way out from the city to get warmed up, which ended up working out great. I’ll definitely be back to play again!
No mention of greens being aerated!!!
I’m shocked, after playing here 4 times in the past two months, I couldn’t believe that the greens were aerated. There was no mention of this while reserving or paying for the golf. I don’t think that it’s the right thing to do when you have people playing and paying. Not cool and unfortunate because I truly love the layout. It’s just not a whole lot of fun to play on greens like this. The ball only goes in on a fly. You almost have to play the dime sized holes to make it bounce in! Sorry guys but this was a total embarrassment to me for bringing 3 guys out there to play as my guests. It’s a bad look and me but more importantly it’s a horrible look on you and your team. You could have at least rolled the greens and had at least the opportunity to knock it in and not bounce it in. It will be a few weeks before they recover but in time they will for sure!
Would’ve been nice to know they aerated the greens
I love your golf course and it’s always a blast to play. I booked my teatime just before that and unfortunately, no one told me that aerated greens were gonna be. Destroying putts the entire day. The ball never stayed online, it bounced all over the place and the only way to get it to go in the hole was to get it to fly in seriously maybe hit a bump or a dime sized hole with sand that wasn’t rolled, totally different and they rolled every green before play. They definitely didn’t cut them. That’s for sure, rolling them is the least you could do. I understand you may be shortstaffed now that it’s September but that’s no excuse for not just rolling the greens. Once again, I’m embarrassed to bring my groove out. This time it’s your course sometimes it’s elsewhere but never should it be unannounced that you’re doing aeration. That’s totally necessary at a course what stinks is not knowing. It would’ve been no big deal to play elsewhere and come back here in two weeks.
Fun as always but the greens were a little slow. Definitely expected though throughout this rough August.
We had a wonderful round at Chevy Chase. The fairways look great. The tea boxes were excellent, the bunkers not quite raked yet but that’s because we played at 6:30 in the morning. No big deal. Not sure if the greens were gonna get cut but by the time we had gotten off and none were caught yet and that was about 10 AM. By 10 AM if they’re not cut, they’re probably not gonna be which would’ve been no big deal and I’m not left a dozen or so putts short of the cup. No big deal if they’re all the same and everybody in your. Group is well aware of the speed. Everybody was so like I said it’s no big deal. The golf course is an excellent value at $54 including the cart. Where else can you play at 6:40 in the morning including cart fees for 54 bucks. Not a single place near there except for the golf course at the Marriott Lincolnshire, which wouldn’t be considered a golf course. It’s called Crane’s Landing. It should be called. We have 18 tee boxes and 18 greens so if you want to call us a golf course that’s fine. Back to Chevy. As always like I said this place is a blast. Condition is never an issue. Today’s conditions were about as bad as it gets here and that would say this place is awesome because the condition was great. Sure the greens were slightly slow, but that’s no big deal as long as one’s not fast than one slow, and then another one really really fast and then another really really slow. They remain consistently slow throughout the round. That makes me happy and I will definitely be back shortly because I know what I’m getting when I pay the $54 there a great golf course, a great conditioned golf course at that. And to top it off, it’s only $54. Wow, that buries other courses in the area that charge $75 or more. Ones over by the lake in the Wilmette area and in the Winnetka area really nail you for about 100 bucks including the cart on the weekends and about 85 bucks on the weekday. Absolutely insane. Those golf courses are much more money and are not in as good of shape usually. I’ve played Chevy Chase about five times this summer and I’ll be happy to play at five more this fall.. thanks for putting together a beautiful product because it warrant and thank you for me. Thank you for making it what it is, a total blast for everybody in the group.!!!
Excellent course
Challenging layout, bentgrass fairways in great condition smooth greens
Nice track
Very slow play. Longest round in the last five years for me. It lasted 5 hr and 10 minutes. Course was great but the pace of play was horrible. And no ranger here!!
Awesome
Exceeded my expectations. First time playing this course, I will definitely be back with friends
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