Robert Kaindl

Review of Oakbrook Golf Course

It's Simply Horrible... Including way overpriced f...

It's Simply Horrible... Including way overpriced for what you should get (value wise).

Sad to say... The Management Butchered the Course by removing trees everywhere and don't bother even to cleanup the mess or the ridicules countless mounds of wood chips and huge stumps or root-balls nor appear even to care. The debris form recent storms don't seem to bother them either. Seems that the thousands of trees they have removed looks like what slash areas in the forest looks like when deforestation occurs.

Their excuse is that the course needed the trees removed to let the course grow better. Doesn't explain why hundreds of trees in the middle of nowhere are now stumps amongst never maintained areas were toppled. It appears that the owners needed extra cash and sold the best commodity the course had. I'm sure the owners would argue otherwise of which I wouldn't believe them one iota due to the serious unmaintained areas.

As we played, the surrounding neighbors (yes homes on the course) targeted us to let us know how mad they are at the golf course. They pointed out in great detail how bad the management of the course has deteriorated even their own back-yards and they themselves are required to cleanup after the "lazy" grounds crew. One guy told us that he blows the crap back to the golf course every day. One woman made a point to let us know that the ground crews only smoke and sit in their carts instead of doing any work. She also mentioned that the equipment the course brought to strip mine the course had no regards for them at all. Furthermore mentioning that the homeowners Association is pissed.

They apparently let five'somes also play on Saturday mornings because we followed several of them. They overload the course in the same way they stripped the trees out of the course. It used to be a nicer fun course while challenging to play.

We played with a men's club member and he mentioned the membership is dwindling. He also mentioned that Gold Mountain / Columbia hospitality is taking over this month. Hopefully not too late because they have a clue.

If you decide to play this course, consider yourself warned. I'll come back in 3 years to see how it turned out.

Okay - One single good thing to point out is that the greens are very nice in spite the crazy undulations..

If you have to play this course...