Crystal Tree - Illinois - USA
10700 West 153rd Street,
Orland Park,
Illinois (IL) 60462,
USA
+1 708 403 3000
35 miles SW of downtown Chicago
Members and their guests only
Jon Bailey
Danny Behr
Established in 1990 in Orland Park, an hour’s drive out from Chicago’s city centre, Crystal Tree Golf & Country Club offers its members a number of recreational amenities, featuring four Har-Tru Clay tennis courts, a 6,000 square-foot outdoor pool with six 75’ swimming lanes, and a Robert Trent Jones Jr-designed par 72 golf course extending to 6,850 yards.
In The American Private Golf Club Guide, Daniel Wexler writes: “like most of Trent II’s work, the sometimes-hilly track is completely modern in style, yet also interesting and in spots fairly strategic. Favourites include the 400-yard 4th (where carrying right side bunkers minimises a greenside pond on the approach) and the 494-yard 7th, a tricky, watery par five.”
The author continues: “Both back nine par three are also strong (the 148-yard 12th playing over a deep valley, the 215-yard 15th over water) as is the 421-yard 18th, a split-fairway par four upon which the more dangerous right side gains only a small advantage.”