West at White Pines Golf Course
About
Situated just 30 minutes from downtown Chicago, White Pines Golf Club has been a popular spot for both locals and visitors. The club offers two courses, the East and the West. The West Course is longer than the East by 400 yards and considered slightly more challenging. The layout is relatively tight and there is an abundance of trees, which means you'll need to be accurate to do well. The greens are large and challenging with difficult-to-read breaks. There is also minimal, but strategic bunkering along the greensides. The fairways provide plenty of variety with some that are narrow and heavily tree-lined and others that are wide with no trees in sight. The golf course has several challenging holes but it's forgiving enough for beginners to approach with confidence.
Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
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Black | 72 | 6624 yards | 71.5 | 127 |
Black (W) | 72 | 6624 yards | 77.8 | 135 |
Gold | 72 | 6504 yards | 71.0 | 126 |
Gold (W) | 72 | 6504 yards | 77.1 | 134 |
Silver | 70 | 6335 yards | 70.2 | 124 |
Silver (W) | 72 | 6335 yards | 76.2 | 132 |
White | 72 | 5989 yards | 68.6 | 120 |
White (W) | 72 | 5989 yards | 74.2 | 128 |
Maroon (W) | 74 | 5751 yards | 72.9 | 125 |
Maroon | 74 | 5751 yards | 67.5 | 117 |
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
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Black M: 71.5/127 W: 77.8/135 | 362 | 173 | 508 | 429 | 499 | 370 | 381 | 138 | 393 | 3253 | 367 | 613 | 371 | 388 | 170 | 515 | 370 | 196 | 381 | 3371 | 6624 |
Silver M: 70.2/124 W: 76.2/132 | 346 | 161 | 486 | 415 | 471 | 352 | 377 | 118 | 387 | 3113 | 350 | 593 | 354 | 373 | 141 | 505 | 350 | 180 | 376 | 3222 | 6335 |
Maroon M: 67.5/117 W: 72.9/125 | 342 | 133 | 360 | 394 | 443 | 326 | 304 | 105 | 360 | 2767 | 341 | 515 | 340 | 361 | 132 | 502 | 316 | 171 | 306 | 2984 | 5751 |
Handicap | 10 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 7 | |||
Par | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
Handicap (W) | 10 | 14 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 15 |
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Photo submitted by Jigg7557 on 11/02/2013
pace of play was horrible
i play this course a lot and it’s good value for your money. i also expect a slow round on sunday but this was horrible. 5.5 hours to play 18. we complained to the ranger about the group in front of us many times and they told us “there’s not much we can do”. isn’t that literally your job????
the halfway house also wasn’t open and the car girl had no food so we were basically stuck for 5.5 hours with nothing to do or eat and just hit a shot every 10 minutes or so. it was awful.
$69 for everything to be broken or gone
GPS in carts not connected to network , yet also no yardage sticks? $69 for that? I get it’s april but you’ve known about the 80 degree Sunday for a couple weeks. Waaaay too many other munis around to pay for that again. And pick up the sticks.
Really wet
Not fair to rate courses when they are saturated and CPO. Lotsa walking in standing water. But pace of play was among the worst I've ever experienced. SLOW wouldn't even explain it. If I weren't retired I would have quit! 6 hours...
More Difficult Than the Scorecard Suggests
It's a bonus to play golf in the Chicago area in February. Temps were near 60 and it was pretty windy. Given that date, the course was in surprisingly good condition. The greens rolled pretty smoothly but, as expected, the speed from green-to-green was inconsistent. The course played longer and harder that the rating and slope would suggest.
I hadn't played this course in several years. The trees have grown and there are some pretty tight landing areas. I will make it a point to get back and play this course during the summer when the leaves are back.
The staff was great and the whole experience was way above average.
Dominic & Marty 18 Holkes
Course was in excellent condition, reasonable priced and perfect weather conditions
I have never not been delayed here, they also have 2 18 hole courses and still somehow ran out of carts when I came here previously and this time we come here and it’s delayed again. Course thinks it’s much higher end than it is.
Slow Sunday
We tried to book early in the day since Sundays are always bad. Before we teed off they were already backed up. 2 foursomes wre teeing off at our t time. The group in front of us were playing the back tees and 2 were beginners
As time went on we hoped the ranger would speed them up but didn't
I should of called the club house but didn't. 940 to 330
Enjoyable course but EXTREMELY slow play
East course…..Very nice old fashioned course with tree lined fairways…..especially the back 9. I liked the course and it was in good shape. However, the pace of play was horrendous…..so slow to the point I may never go back. No rangers to be found either. Too bad because I liked the course overall.
Pace of play
No ranger. Pace of play was horrible. 5 hour round, a group of 3some hold up the hole course. No staff or ranger came out to get group moving. Starter on the west course was sending everyone to the East course. Told us the group of 3some is slow, instead of tell the that group of 3-some course pace of play expectations. At least the weather was nice.
overall, good conditions,good course to play, pace was very slow
Great course. No delay
We had to wait a little on the first hoke back 9 but then things went smoothly. Very friendly staff and great course condition.