RUFFLED FEATHERS GOLF CLUB

The Pete Dye design in Chicago's southwest suburbs delivers his signature brand of strategic torture through wooded corridors and elevated greens that punish the tentative. Railroad ties frame several holes while native prairie grasses swallow anything straying from the narrow fairways, creating the kind of risk-reward scenarios that separate weekend warriors from serious stick handlers. Water hazards lurk on thirteen holes, but it's the undulating putting surfaces that will have you questioning your read long after you've signed the scorecard.