The Links at Carillon - Blue/Red

Had an awesome round on November 10 inChicago. Great weather and the course was in excellent shape. Course is forgiving and was a great way to end the golf season

All ways played this course I am enjoying green are fast

Course very nice, pace of game 15-20 minutes slower
The four some in front us they playing on gold tee but
They not professional play.

Outside the slower pace than usual, the course was in amazing shape. Few pitch areas in the greens were damaged but the rough and fairways immaculate. Tees, always top notch!

Played the Red/White combo. Very nice course and fun, very challenging layout. Conditions of the course are really good. I’d definitely go back at some point.

This was a very nice course with a few very challenging layouts and pin placements. I only complaint is no credit cards at the concessions. I think all corses should take alternate forms of payment in todays day and age. I don’t carry cash or a debit card.

Friendly staff, well maintained course, and very reasonable green fee. Highly recommend this course.

I usually play Carillon once a year during the week. Well over 20 rounds under my belt here.....You can get caught up in some very slow play as this is a 55+ community - some of the locals do take their sweet time. Yesterday the pace was okay until the last 4 or 5 holes where it crawled to a turtles pace. Not surprising because if you play the "standard" traditional routing red to white...the last 4 holes are pretty tough finishing with the infamous Gauntlet - a par 5 with water everywhere. Tees, rough, fairways are in really good shape, traps are okay but not consistent. While the greens roll okay there are blemishes everywhere on all of them due to the extreme amount of play. Scads of poorly repaired and/or not repaired at all ball marks. Brown ball mark blemishes everywhere. Very disconcerting...you'll be dodging these damages on any putt over 4 feet......but the greens are decently playable with good speed.

The course can get claustrophobic in places.....a lot of your drives have to be carefully placed as several of the par 4's have very small width of fairways as you play around, beside and through the 55+ community....some of the housing is very intrusive/can easily be hit with an errant shot.. All of the folks that work there are welcoming and want you to have a good experience. Clubhouse with restaurant/bar and a very tired locker room with showers that has needed a refresh for at least a decade or more. Grass driving range and decent practice/chipping green as well as putting green to warm up on. FYI - the Blue Course nine is probably the best of the 3 nines except for a really stupid poorly designed Par 5 5th hole where there's simply no landing area for your second shot. If you have the time and energy play the blue 9 as your last nine....sometimes it's completely empty.... recommend for play but once a season is enough for me.