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Pine Meadow Golf Club
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4 reviews for Pine Meadow Golf Club
4 reviews in English
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Review from Steven M.
Denver, CO
7/13/2009
I really like this course. It's very challenging, with a variety of holes and tee locations to test every skill level. The front nine and back nine are very different from each other, you can tell they are from different periods.
They do a nice job of enforcing pace of play. My round was just at 4 hours on a Saturday morning.
Well stocked pro shop, and decent hot dogs and burgers.
Reasonable course to walk, although they could do a MUCH better job of putting out signs to tell you which way to go for the next tee box. Some distance between a few of the tees but nothing that will slow up play if you're a walker and playing with riders.
It's a little spendy at $84 for a weekend round. Still, it's a great course, and I plan on playing there often. -
Review from Peter W.
Mundelein, IL
8/9/2007
Very nice course, but for $90, the value proposition is average.
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Review from Steve T.
Chicago, IL
3/2/2010
I've played this course quite a bit. Challenging but fair. Fairways are fairly wide, but the course is a bit long and approach shots are a little tricky. What I like about the course is that every hole seems isolated from the rest of the course. You don't get too distracted with what's going on around you. Probably the best public practice facility in the area, dare I say the ChicagoLand area.
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Review from alex h.
Chicago, IL
9/28/2009
I will preface this review by saying that I had a terrible experience, which may taint my opinion. I had a friend from Europe in town, with whom I played some of the better courses in the area - Pine Meadow is on every one of those lists, so off we went.
Can't think of a worse way to waste your time than on this joke of a golf course. I don't get it. I don't understand how any critic can say anything good about this place. But I digress.
Re: our bad experience: The course was hosting an outing in the morning - kind of a "fun" tournament, for which the pins were put in the most ridiculous spots (i.e. edge of ridges, smack in the middle of inclines, 2 feet from the fringe, etc.). I'm an ok golf player (Hcp 2), but at some point a course becomes completely unplayable. We putted out on the first 5-6 holes - from then onward we resorted to hitting our iron shots into the greens and picking up.
What REALLY irked me is the fact that NOBODY said a word Not the guy collecting my 80+ bucks green fee, not the starter (!), not the first two rangers we saw. On No. 15 a ranger drives up and asks whether we're having fun with the pins. My jaw just dropped. I'm a nice guy, but I almost punched the poor dude. I actually emailed the Jemsek's afterward, but got NO response. Seriously?
Anyhow, besides my bad experience, I still don't see why people are so enamored with this place. There is little variety amongst the holes, usually presenting runway wide fairways with massively undulated greens that seem totally out of place. Supporters of intelligent design point to the watch as evidence for the watch maker - Pine Meadow does most certainly not serve as evidence for the existence of intelligent golf course design. Over and over it's "find tee box, grab driver, swing hard. Lather, rinse, repeat." I've read reviews that allude to the "variety of holes" - really? I couldn't tell one hole from the other. I've played way over 100 golf courses in my life, and this one doesn't even make the Top 50.
I admit - I may be bitter about a wasted afternoon, but still. This is not a good golf course. Period. I wouldn't play it again if it was free.
