River Forest Golf Club: River Forest

Amazing food and stuff beautiful course

This is an assessment of River Forest that I sent to my golf circle. (10-1-2025) First it's a solid 4-Star gated course. The guys in the pro-shop are very friendly. Nice layout. Golf carts are gas but no GPS - you can drive them into the parking lot. Restrooms are old but clean and do not need a code. Some very interesting (fun) holes to make you think. Water doesn’t really come into play until the 10th hole. Drop Zone in front of a sand trap (WHAT?!- weird sense of humor). The sand traps are kind of hard and could use some more sand. A couple of holes drop down from an elevated tee (Really COOL!) Most red tees are in the fairway (Literally at the beginning of the fairways level to the ground) Kim flipped over that! Pretty easy to follow cart path to next hole. Some damage on cart path but very little. A couple of par 4 "Cart path only" that I can’t figure out why. One is almost identical to the one on the back at Crystal Lake that have a HARD dogleg right down the hill. The greens roll true and some are painted around the edge. A couple of the greens are beat up pretty bad (I don't know why they were not repaired during their temporary closing). It is ACTUALLY necessary to drive your golf cart in the street/road to get to hole 17 & 18. The road didn't appear to be busy but still a little unsettling as you are in the street for about 100 yards. I didn't use the range or putting green but both appears to be in excellent shape. Kim and I will probably play the course four times during a season and it is DEFINITELY worth the trip to play. It's a very easy and straight forward drive from I75-South. Exit Johnsonville RD Turn left on Johnsonville, Left on River Forest to Course which is on the left. Out of the five Green Valley Golf Courses Kim likes River Forest the best but it's a toss up for me between River Forest and Providence with me leaning toward River Forest because of the easy drive and great people (Staff & Club Members on the course). I forgot to mention that there is a Black Tee Box between the Red & Green Tees. The Green tee is labeled for seniors on the scorecard so I don't know who would use the Black tees?!

You will meet some great people in this area. I enjoy coming up here.

Excellent course! Can't wait to see the new greens.

Great course with good layout. Greens are under repair but nice fairways and challenging front 9. Clubhouse food and drinks were awesome.