The Directory · Southwest Suburbs
The southwest suburbs —
Cog Hill and the public courses around it.
Lemont, Romeoville and Orland Park: Cog Hill's No. 4, Dubsdread, a longtime PGA TOUR stop, with Ruffled Feathers nearby, plus Mistwood, Cinder Ridge and Silver Lake's North Course.
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southwest suburbs golf courses, end to end.
The southwest suburbs are public golf, and Lemont is the center of it. Cog Hill's No. 4, Dubsdread, a Dick Wilson and Joe Lee course redesigned by Rees Jones, hosted the Western Open from 1991 to 2006 and five BMW Championships, and anyone can book it; Golf Digest ranks it 14th in Illinois (2025-26). Pete and P.B. Dye's Ruffled Feathers sits nearby among native wetlands. Ray Hearn's Mistwood in Romeoville is known for its sod-wall bunkers, Silver Lake's North Course in Orland Park is a 1927 layout at a family-run 45-hole complex, and Cinder Ridge in Wilmington winds through ravines left by coal mining. All five are open to the public, which makes this the easiest part of Chicagoland to plan a golf day around.
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The best golf courses in Southwest Suburbs.
Dick Wilson and Joe Lee; redesigned by Rees Jones · Lemont
Cog Hill Golf & Country Club — Dubsdread (No. 4)
Wilson and Lee's public Lemont course, host of 16 Western Opens and five BMW Championships.
George Kappos · Wilmington
Cinder Ridge Golf Course
An owner-designed public course over ravines and old coal-mining ground in Wilmington, Illinois.
Ray Hearn · Romeoville
Mistwood Golf Club
Ray Hearn's public course in Romeoville, rebuilt with Scottish-style sod-wall bunkers.
Pete Dye and P.B. Dye · Lemont
Ruffled Feathers Golf Club
Pete and P.B. Dye's daily-fee course in Lemont, built on former farmland among native wetlands.
Orland Park
Silver Lake Country Club — North Course
The longer, more open course at Silver Lake's family-run, 45-hole public facility in Orland Park.