1325 N. Barrington Road, Hoffman Estates, Illinois
First: YAY!!! Aaron is back from Dollywood!! Wahooo!!!!
Dang!! Look at this sign!! Do you think they have a lot of broken putters??? Sheesh!!!
Hey, look at these low scores!! We did WAY better than that!! We should’ve told them our scores!!! RATS!!!!
Practice green. Gotta love that.
OK, so, at Congo River Adventure, there are two 18 hole courses - which you can play in combination for $11.95. Not bad.
We played Congo River Rapids first.
One of my favorite things about this course was the “scavenger hunt”. They had a bunch of decorations you were supposed to look for throughout the course. If you saw one, you were supposed to write down what hole you were playing when you saw it. If you saw all six of the hunt items, they’d give you a prize: a smiley-face superball!
Man, this was BRILLIANT!! It meant that if you were waiting behind a slow party, you could spend your time looking for the hunt items. It meant that kids who were waiting for others in their party to putt could also be looking for the hunt items. It was just a BRILLIANT idea!!! (Pictured below is the "mask" item. It's mounted on the shack.)
Look how lovely this course is!! Although, once again with the blue water!!
There were lots of bridges you got to walk on - I loved that.
You know, in general this course had long, interesting “fairways” that you really wanted to think about your strategy, and then they had exceptionally friendly cups. Seriously, the cups were often just slightly depressed, compared to the surrounding green, so that if you were sort of headed in the direction of the hole, you’d tend to roll in. This made you feel like a really super-competent golfer (and would be GREAT for kids).
There were a lot of holes where you putted into a hole on the top tier and then were spat out below - none of these gave automatic holes-in-one, though.
Look at this guy drooling blue water!!!
We got to this hole, and thought it was a hole with a couple of REALLY harsh gaps, and then we realized that the hole was set up so that once you were in the water you’d be automatically routed onto the green below. I have to say, I love a hole where you get to putt into the water!!
See this cork-screw hole?? There were a lot of holes like this, where, really, you just teed off in the general direction that seemed logical, and then you got spat out on a very friendly green.
Wait a minute!! What happened to this guy?? Is he a guy who’s dead and sunk into the sand?? Or is he just a sleeping stick figure?? And why does he make me want to sing “Particle Man”??
Statistics:
Par: 41
Aaron: 53
Peg: 46
Difficulty (1-6 putts, 6 putts being the most difficult): 3.5 putts (but higher for children on account of the really long fairways and steep up-hill holes).
Rating (1-10 balls, 10 being the most wondrous): 7.5 balls according to Aaron. 8 balls according to Peg. Aaron liked how there were a lot of downhill putts. Peg liked the friendly, friendly cups!!
Coming next: Congo River Falls
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