COG Hill Golf & Country Club: Dubsdread #4

If you are like me, you do a double taking reading the name of the golf course … Dubsdread #4 … Yes, you read it properly. ‘Dub’ means ‘Poor Golfers Be careful, challenges in front’, and ‘Dread’ connotes ‘feelings of the upcoming disaster’. My experience in Cog Hill was not terrible and clear to me why ‘dubs’ consistently ranked 100 of the top public courses in the country.

This special trip is the 48 -hour quail wind golf mission that I ready to handle. I started this trip by arriving at the golf course directly from O’hare International. My initial impression when sliding at the entrance was that this facility was really ‘Meka Golf’. From every corner, one of the four golf courses at the location can be seen from the entrance. After arrival, the golf course staff could not be more accommodating. After my luggage was kept and I bit my meal, I was ready to start.

After flying in the morning, I can’t wait to find a driving distance and do a little before playing. The range is a mixture of artificial grass stalls and the grass area of ​​grass a little further down. This facility has almost a ‘Happy Gilmore -Esque’ vibration and a ball will make you $ 7. Cog Hill also has a small area for warming up with your slices before exploring to large -massive exercises. The exercise that makes green in a very good condition and imitates the condition of the course well, which helps prepare me for the corrugated green vegetables in front.

As usual, I decided to walk and forget the cart to follow the footsteps of Tiger and try and have a little magic rubbing me. Tiger won 5 tournaments in ‘Dubs’ throughout his career and currently holding a course record (which he set in 2009) of 62. This course uses dynamic prices for green costs and including carts at a round price. I have 13:00 and pay $ 162 for my round. I don’t have a problem to make TEE time online and honest, maybe it might run because they have many times available. For this course, I finally played alone which gave me extra time to enjoy the scenery and do some additional shots from a different angle.

When approaching the first Tee box, there is a little hubbub, just a metal sign that records ‘dubsdread hole 1’. The opening hole requires Tee shot in the fairway to avoid large and right bunkers and surrounds a slightly uphill small green. Placement of pins and small green causing a little chaos for me and I started my day double and had felt ‘fear’. After settling and enjoying fertile fairway and natural scenery during the next few hole, I approached Par 5 I first at #5. This hole plays fair and intelligent appreciation and respects the rigorous landing zone in green. I walked away with the regulation par and used the momentum to associate the last four holes. Overall the nine front is a mixture of a good hole that requires a little strategy and is well arranged in nature with rural nuances.

In my opinion, nine backs ‘dubs #4’ is really true where the course starts to shine. Once again, Bunker mostly played a role in all nine backs, and in addition, the field seemed to change. After playing the 10th hole, you have to take a walk across the street to play #11-18.

Hole #11 is a long par 525-anyd (from white skin) that will test you and requires you to keep your Tee shot in the game with the right bound and left bunker. The hole seems to last forever and when you think you have made it, green uphill and has more bends and turns than rollercoaster. The excitement continues with Hole #13, Par 371-Anyd. When I approached #13, I didn’t know how important it was to keep the ball on the fairway from Tee. I hit the ball to the left roughly and was forced to punch to the left-to-right fairway. Not only there is a slope to compete but uphill green which is raised by Bunker and a cliff on the left side. No need to say, I like to take my scourge and move to one of the most beautiful par 3 on the field, #14. Par 3 seems to be arranged in this country with beautiful wild flowers that make Carry forced from Tee. Green is surrounded by 6 bunkers, so once again, accuracy is the most important.

In the opinion of the Pro-Shop staff, Hole #16 is a dubsdread signature hole (I ask for a different, but more than that to come). The 16th hole is of course extraordinary, the view from the Tee box is amazing when you look down the fairway and see the trees coat both sides and a little dogleg left around the cliff. This hole really requires you to channel your inner tigers and become a shot maker. After my Tee shot at Fairway along the right side I had a hybrid into green. Fortunately, I left my hybrid short, leaving me a chip and putt to make par. I say fortunately because if you are long at #16, you will most likely have a lost ball in the abyss that surrounds the back and left sides.

When my day was wrapped, I approached what I thought was the Dubsdread signature hole #4, #18. According to PGA statistics in Cog Hill, #18 during the PGA tournament game consistently is the most excessive play hole on the field … which means that this hole does not walk in the park even for professionals. The 18th is PAR 4, a 401 yard hole, which requires precision. From Tee, you must keep the ball on the fairway and stabilize your nerves for your second shot. This approach is a narrow hole for green that has water on the left and bunker on the right and green which is once again small. Miss Green Long and you are in the parking lot, miss the left or right and you are in trouble. I ended my day up and down to save Par and look back to the hole to take the view.

My trip to COG Hill: Dubsdread #4 Success and I will highly recommend checking this Midwestern championship course if you have the opportunity … and don’t forget to taste dishes in when traveling to windy cities.

See you at Fairway!
Courtney