Water's Edge Golf Club

Surprised no reviews were posted in 2022 for this course. I must have not played it last season? Anyway the pace of play stunk (as usual) when we asked the 4 some ahead of us to move along one of them actually said "There's no where to go" when in fact there were almost TWO WIDE OPEN HOLES IN FRONT OF THEM. The group behind us was a least 2 holes behind as well. It should not take any more than 4 hours to play when you tee off earlier than 10am.....and these Richards managed to draw their round out to 4 1/2 hours plus! Thankfully we had superior on course nurse service from Lisa. She's excellent.

Course itself is an over watered sloppy mess in the fairway....so the ball goes no where when you hit the fairway.....land in the rough and the ball bounces forever right into hazards.. Traps very wet and inconsistent sand conditions throughout - several traps had black liners showing. Tee boxes need renovation. The course is playing unlike any other course in Chicagoland right now. It is not hard and fast.....we were making ball marks and holding greens. Greens had good speed - the flag positions were difficult - many of the greens have smallish shelves in several areas....and if you not on the right level it can get a tad ridiculous....greens undulations slightly over the top/smallish areas to play to and this feature definitely slows play. Decent clubhouse restaurant and the routing itself is interesting and pretty. Recommend but gird for extremely slow play by the many Richards who play here. We've had a lot of bad slow play idiot experiences at Waters Edge over the years. And that trend continues......

Its been 30 degrees in Chicago for weeks. Thursday it was near 60. It was nice to play golf in December in Chicago. Thanks to the staff at Waters Edge for opening the course to the public in the middle of winter. The course offers a large driving range and practice area. The price is fair. The staff is friendly. The place was booked solid and kept pace nicely. They even brought in a cart girl. All around great day

The course was in decent shape for the end of the season. Pace was a little slow.

Besides the fact our tee time was delayed by 1 hour because of frost delay, the round was stellar. We were the first group off so I can’t speak to pace of play but for being so late in the season I expected the course to be in rougher shape. Minus the chill in the air you could have told me it was July and I would have believed you. Greens were fast and hole placements created a good set of challenges. My only critique is the staff could be a bit warmer. They were a bit stressed about the frost delay, and they passed there distress on to me as customer. Half our foursome was a bit pressed for time due to the delay in tee time and they didn’t seem to have empathy for our situation. They also couldn’t confirm if we would be allowed to use carts and if we couldn’t would they be refunded. Expectation management and reassuring customers are not their strong suit.

Played the course after a couple days of rain. To my surprise the course was not as wet as we thought it would be. Greens were very fast but true. Playing there again next week.

Water's Edge is usually a decent play during the week. Unfortunately our day was ruined by two lopes. When asked when their tee time when they arrived at the practice green the response was "we don't have one but we're next on the tee." We didn't bother to respond back to them....we just let them head to the first tee and waited for them at the putting green even though our tee time was absolutely next. Two foursomes of millennials music blaring with beers already cracked were directly in front of them. These two managed to finally play through these two groups by the 11th hole and really took their sweet time as they did so. The millennials did have the decency/acumen to wait for our foursome to play through them on the 11th tee. We thought the slow play nightmare was over.....but these two senior jacks actually played even slower on purpose and held us up.....to the point of backing up the other two other slow playing 4 somes we had played through!!!.......and this with a completely empty 7 holes in front of them!! A 440 round that easily should have been 330/345. I hope someday I get paired up with these two guys. I'll definitely recognize one of them. I'll treat them as poorly as they treated the golf course as well as all others playing the course. Sometimes you just have back luck but I know in my heart the golfing gods will never ever be kind to these two guys. See my other reviews of this course below......this day the greens were pretty speedy but pockmarked with tons of no repaired ball marks and also old poorly repaired ball marks. A couple of greens had obvious club/divot damage from other entitled HOLES who play here. Really a shame.

Chose to play here because it had an available morning tee time for a Sunday. A challenging course because of its length. But IMHO the course conditions were not on par with the price (no pun intended).

This golf course was very challenging and the layout was great. It was my first time playing it and now that I know the holes, I would play it differently the next time. I strongly recommend playing the right tees based on what it says on the scorecard. My only complaint is that the people that play this golf course do not fix their ball marks on the greens. They need to remind golfers about this issue.

Greens and tee boxes a little worn. Driving range tee boxes were in great shape. Great value to a pretty nice course.

Cancelled my Tee time when on the way to the course .Not professional at all

Played the front 9 at a respectable pace..but the back 9 was a log jam. I’ve never seen twosomes play this slow. At one point there was a foursome, 2 twosomes and our group of 3 on hole 13 and it was a crawl to the clubhouse. Course conditions were great but pace of play needs to improve.

When we checked in to confirm our tee time and get our carts, we asked the staff member if there would be food and drinks available at the turn. The staff member made a generic statement that "There is a facility at the 9th hole and a beer cart will be coming thru". He was being a bit squirrely when we asked and wouldn't make eye contact. Sure enough, when we finished the 9th hole, there was a building with a huge "BEER" sign but it was locked and not staffed. Also, a beverage cart never made the rounds. No food, snacks, beer and especially water, as it was a hot day. The guy who checked us in was a bald faced liar. Just say you're understaffed. Decent course, but not being managed well.