illinijim02

Course has been reconfigured since I had last played it. Great changes. Conditions excellent for the price.

Played the Lakes. It seems as though every green is elevated, usually with one or two bunkers in front. The greens were very well manicured, but were hard and did not hold. Several shots that looked good bounced over the green. Some holes in the layout looked weird, like #10, almost a horseshoe shape around a lake. A lot of tee shots felt like target golf, and sometimes hard bounces ended up in trouble. Staff was great and friendly

Course was in excellent shape and it is a very good layout. Pro shop help and starter were friendly, but ranger was a real jerk, ruining our experience. We were a foursome playing 3 different tee boxes, and started the round with a gap. Ranger came out twice to tell us to speed up. The second time we were on 11, and I told him we played the front nine in 2 hours, which was true. I checked my iPhone time on the 10th tee, and it was exactly 2 hours and 2 minutes since we teed off on the first hole. The ranger basically told me I was lying and there was no way what I said was true. Then he rudely drove off. He probably did not know one of the players was a pro. We complained to the pro shop after we finished in 4 hours.