Lost Dunes Golf Club Review

The Lost Dunes golf club was founded in 1999 and the course was designed by the famous architect Tom Doak, featuring 6905 yards of golf from its longest tees for a 71 par. Also, the golf course has a rating of 73,7 and a slope rating of 138 (on bent grass). Keep in mind that the Lost Dunes is a private facility available just for its members and their guests. Also, this private club is pretty expensive, but it offers a pure golfing experience, as the architect managed to transform these nondescript chunks of sand (hence the Lost Dunes moniker) upon which the golf course was built into a real treasure. The terrain here is pretty far from being a topographical paradise, being actually that type of ground which was hand tooled for eons by salt water and winds.

Truth be told, the Lost Dunes was built on top of an abandoned sand mine and its located very close to the highway I 94. However, due to Tom Doaks genius (thats what they pay architects for) the highways is barely noticeable, nor visible or audible during your game and theres also very little reminiscence of the terrains sand quarry days. What youll see here will be caterrings of pine trees, dunes covered in foliage and some patches of hardwood, together with huge areas of flat earth, which allowed Tom Doak to masterfully create the golf courses greenside collection areas and its huge, devilish greens. Keep in mind that if you want to card a decent score here, your putting will have to be top notch, due to the outstanding bunkering job and the greens which make for the most outrageous of Tom Doaks works. When putting on these greens, youll begin to question your eyesight! The Lost Dunes golf course is visually striking, to say the least as sits on a dramatic looking piece of real estate on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, one hour drive East of Chicago and the name is perfect for this almost unknown Mid-West gem.