With the protected fronts, elevation, and firmness, a run up is rarely an option. Don’t expect to run many balls up on the greens. If you miss a green, you’ll typically find yourself in a world of hurt and need a nifty recovery to get up and down. Many of the holes are Herculean tests for amateur golfers, but that’s fair enough, Dubs was built for the pros. Just take your medicine and get out of the sand. Should you find your way into a fairway bunker, you’ll have your work cut out for you (see above). There’s room to miss off the tee on most holes, but you’re going to have a lot of work to recover successfully. Dubs is long (7554 from the tips) with a lot of elevation changes, trees, deep bunkers (fairway and greenside), and tough greens.
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Having played Dubsdread enough times in my life, I agree that it is a daunting course for the amateur. Rest assured, if you’re an amateur, Dubs is far from boring. Phil’s statements indicated that the course is way too long and unplayable for amateurs that would pay the daily fares at the course, but way too straightforward for pros and lacked the need for shot variety. Leading the charge of opposition was Phil Mickelson (amongst others). Much of Dubsdread’s criticism is due to the 2008 Rees Jones redesign. There are a lot of opposing stances regarding Cog Hill’s Dubsdread golf course. (There’s some neat information about it here.) The main clubhouse one of my favorites in Chicago and makes me dream of enjoying it in the 1940s. Rest assured, it’s a classic display of opulence and doesn’t disappoint. If you’re looking for the “clubhouse dining experience,” then you need to visit the original clubhouse across the parking lots. You can get yourself typical halfway house food and drinks which is generally fine for me. There is also a small food area that’s not a restaurant, but more than a concession stand.
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The pro shop is a generous size with all the wares you’d expect from a strong golf shop. The clubhouse pictured above is the smaller of the two and is there to serve as the pro shop and sending groups off on Dubsdread and Ravines. What I will say is, it’s not everyday the general public has access for a golf course like this for under $200. Having grown up going to the Western Open and the BMW Championship until 2011, then getting to play the course, I have a lot of opinions in both directions. The 1964 Dick Wilson/Joe Lee design was eventually updated when Rees Jones was enlisted in 2008 to try and earn a US Open at Cog Hill which left a lot of the best players in the world dismayed by the changes.
If you’re a fellow course architecture/design nerd, especially in America, the polarization from the redesign of Cog Hill’s Dubsdread (aka Course No.
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