Heritage Oaks Golf Club - Classic 18

I absolutely love this course. The staff is always friendly and helpful, the conditions are always great on the course, and the pace of play has always been on pace or better. Always able to get a drink/snack at the halfway house that is placed by 3 different tee boxes is a great plus!

First time playing here, they tossed a bunch of miney at this place and it’s awesome.

Greens were the only saving grace. Fast and true. Overpriced. You can do better for the money.

This course has potential. Unfortunately it was recently renovated and reopened. So I had some unlucky results. Reasonable course for bogey golfers.

Really pretty course and prettier clubhouse and facilities. Matts for range is uninspiring but plenty of room and good places to chip and putt. Adirondack chairs facing the 18th green is a nice way to hang on the 19th. However, tee boxes were generally in horrible shape, fairways had lots of standing water and greens weren’t taken care of by players or supervisors.

Great track, challenging and well maintained. One of the better publics in the NorthShore!

Same solid course. Same great staff. Same challenging par 3’s.

Unlike the total makeovers at places like Sunset Valley, Mistwood and Mt Prospect, the renovation here is not apparent once you reach with the first fairway.

The clubhouse and short game practice areas are tremendous and extraordinarily spacious.. We loved the practice pitching and bunker complex. Turf is still thin, but top notch design given the constraints of the property. They even have a nice veranda overlooking 18 with the Adirondack chairs. Nice touch.

Don’t go out here curious to see a new and improved design. Seems the greens were rebuilt, but no meaningful changes to the strategic nature or contours to speak of. Fairways were reseeded and were in wonderful condition. Grass on the greens and ESPECIALLY the tees was really in rough shape. The bunkers were hit or miss and they definitely were not all rebuilt. Aside from the fairways the course looks really beat up and is obviously getting tons of play. Once the novelty of the reopening wears off not sure who will pay the premium for these conditions. You could even see plastic edging around the greens poking up through soil on half the greens and a massive 40’ wide puddle near 12th tee…..just seems like some things weren’t executed quite right.

Biggest misses to me:
They added shorter tees, but I think they should have attempted to lengthen it to reduce the instinct everyone has to look at the 6,300 yards on the card and go to the back tee. Too many players step to the back tee; so that tee box is usually in the worst shape. The course is so soft and at a par of 70 it plays way longer than the scorecard yardage.

Another miss to me was the fact that they didn’t extend the par to 71 or 72. I was hoping they would cut 50 yards off the 17th creating a risk/reward par 5. This would have enabled an extension of 18 to an additional par 5.

Last thing that disappointed was the lack of a grass range area. Not sure if space is lacking, but seems tragic to have such beautiful amenities, learning academy,, netting, lighting, etc. only to offer mats comparable to a Cook County range.

Clubhouse food was strong and the place was buzzing with activity. Clearly the community is embracing the restaurant/bar concept that was well executed. They also have a nicer pro shop, meeting rooms and a massive space housing two simulators….reminds me a lot of the high end vibe you get from Pinstripes.

9hole course green not good. Grass on green in sick condition.

Club house five stars. Next time try the 19 hole