Seven Bridges Golf Club

Too expensive - need to lower the price to play to make it attractive

Greens were in bad shape. Part of it was other players that don't fix divers on course and on the greens.

Beautiful course but extremely challenging. Not recommended for anyone new to the game. I've never seen so much water on a golf course! I was fun to play but bring some extra balls!

One of best courses in the Chicago area. Great layout, great conditions . Love course

Snuck out from work in the middle of the day and got a hot deal rate of $46...with my golfpass coupon it was $40! THE absolute best value for the money in the west suburbs! Aside from the occasional search through the foliage on the ground for your ball, this course is in outstanding condition; fairways are cut low and are soft, the rough is semi-tall but you can still get your ball out of it. And the greens; despite some of them being half aerated, they still run true and very fast; some very tough greens here, most challenging part of this course. Overall very happy with getting out and playing this course for such a grete rate and thoroughly enjoyed myself [despite my score]. Played here a couple weeks ago for $65 during the day...today was the icing on the cake. Get here while the weather holds up and the rates are low!

The pace of play was really slow but that may be due to course difficulty.

great course, especially for the money.

The course is pretty, and challenging. The front nine is very different than the back nine; almost be prepared to change your entire game and strategy at the turn.

It rained today offered a rain check but let us play. Great track will come back. Food and drinks are great as wel

Always telling it like it is -

Due to overpricing (and still way overpriced) I've not bothered to play 12 Bridges for at least a decade and a half (you cross 12 bridges during your round not 7)...I live just 10 minutes away. A convenient venue but confounding bad (and good) for what you get for their standard green fee. $56 dollar hot deal for me and playing partner was acceptable....any more than that pushes me away and I'll gladly go elsewhere for better value....no senior rate during the week - $80 weekdays and $90 Friday-Sun...not going to apologize but that's just really pushing the envelope....a price point where you expect more. It also explains why the course wasn't all that crowded. We got around in under 4 hours but we did our fair share of waiting on the back nine.

History lesson for many of you -

Half of the current site was part of Woodridge Golf Club which was 36 holes back in the day...it closed in the mid-80's and then was redeveloped into 18 holes you play today. The front nine is essentially a reverse routing of one of those original nines. One of the main reasons I have not bothered to play here in a while - after the new course opened in 1991... about 5 or 6 years later they switched the nines so you teed off on 10th hole. The course became a ridiculous start of golf with crowned fairways for 3 holes with water everywhere and no place to even warm up. Thankfully a few years ago they switched the nines back to the original routing.

Staff is extremely nice and welcoming. Use the bag drop or just put on your shoes/drag your clubs from your car after parking. Same deal post round...no carts in the parking lot for good reason.....it's rather small lot with tight turns and some hill to it. The cart staging areas is cramped and unless you go into the clubhouse front door you a have to navigate a number of stairs to reach the pro shop. Nice functional well maintained clubhouse for receptions/weddings and also have decent locker room w/showers off the men's room.

The open air outdoor bar and restaurant are both wonderful when the weather is nice.. A hidden secret in the area - on clear days a post round cocktail with a beautiful sunset over the golf course if you finish late afternoon. I saw several non golfers turning up when I was leaving around 5pm getting a sunset drink & nibblies..

Large practice green representative of the course conditions and slope. A netted hitting bay to warm up on the way to the first tee. The cart paths are all in dire need of resurfacing or renovation.

GPS on the cart - very accurate and assists with an exact distance to flag stick.....several greens on this course can be 2 or 3 clubs difference - they are quite deep/large sizes. It's an "extreme" cart GPS that also won't allow you to drive everywhere willy nilly - several holes our cart speed was slowed to a frustrating level for no reason at all. NO SAND JUGS on the cart. I guess they want their ground crew filling in fairway divots. Most sand traps were in fairly decent shape. Greens rolling decently with good speed except pockmarked with old brown ball marks not correctly repaired (a lost art it seems). Being above the hole required a deft putting touch.

With the lack of rain this season there's over watering going on. The back nine is filled in swamp that is part of the East Branch of the DuPage River. Getting off the fairway or not hitting the green is a real penalty.....roughs and many surrounds are rock hard.

The course itself seems to have turned into a claustrophobic mess due to tree and bush growth. Especially on the back nine where the last 6 holes feel shoehorned into an area. A very watery over manufactured back nine. Front nine not as much but several holes on the 1st nine feature trees that will get in the line of play without a few rounds under your belt - Par 5 1st hole has a very small area to place your second shot correctly, 4th hole requires a drive to extreme left part of fairway and 5th hole dogleg right has a small landing area....8th hole is way overgrown on both sides now to the point where the group following us hit into us by accident. Also be careful driving up to reach the 17th green....the GPS forces you to take a cart path directly into a slicing line of fire from the 18th tee box. Pace of play slows considerably on the back nine.....due to it's difficulty....makes it real easy lose a sleeve plus of balls.

Recommend play however overall Twelve Bridges is just 3.3 stars - course design/cost bring my rating down considerably. Too many shots have to be shoehorned to be rewarded and I had some real fortunate breaks to play well this day. A venue that I wouldn't mind playing more than once a season.....but it's just not a $80 or $90 venue.