Jim2967252

I've been playing Pine Meadow for 20 years. It's my favorite public course in Chicago.

From the tees I play, there's a great mix of holes that will require every club in your bag. They're holes you can score on, and others that a par is great. Most of the holes are isolated from the other, so you don't see other players. It's a great course to walk.

The last few years, they've had trouble with some of the greens . But, they 're working hard to fix them. They do discount the green fees when the conditions don't meet their standards.

Pine Meadow is fairly strict about pace of play, and will "encourage" slow players to speed up. Most courses give a lot of lip service to poor pace of play, PM actually does something about it.

They think they are a premier course, but they treat customers horribly. We had a maintenance tractor on our tail most of the day, literally doing circles around us on tee boxes and greens. We asked a ranger for assistance, but he said, "Its not his job to police maintenance staff..." I'd rather play Shepard's Crook, Pine Meadow or Stonewall Orchard. If a manager reads this, don't bother contacting me.