The Romeoville, Ill., property will open April 25 for its first full season following its three-year, multi-million dollar renovation project that kept the property closed for portions of 2011, 2012 and 2013. The renovation included strategic improvements to each hole on the golf course and the addition of a Performance Center, offering a full-service bar, 11 climate-controlled stations, two indoor heated bays, 32 outdoor stations, and a club-building center.
Mistwood Golf Club in Romeoville, Ill., will open on April 25 for its first full season following its three-year multi-million dollar renovation project.
“This renovation was due to my love for the game and we are very excited to now be opening for a full season and sharing this wonderful new golf experience with Chicago area golfers,” said owner Jim McWethy. “I could not be happier with how everything has come together and for now being recognized as one of the premier golf facilities in the Chicago area.”
The long-time home of the prestigious Illinois Women’s Open golf tournament, Mistwood closed early in the golf seasons of 2011 and 2012, and opened late in 2013 enabling Michigan-based golf course architect Ray Hearn, the original architect from 1998, to complete the award-winning renovation work that included strategic improvements to every hole on the course.
Hearn’s work also included the addition of 20 stacked sod-wall bunkers; unique and impressive trademark hazards in Scotland and Ireland not normally seen in traditional American golf design. “We fine-tuned and polished a gem,” Hearn said.
The facility renovation also included the addition of the new Mistwood Performance Center. With its Irish-themed stone architecture and warm dark wood interior that features a combination of 11 climate controlled stations, two indoor heated bays for year-round practice, 32 outdoor stations, a custom club-fitting room, putting room and a repair and club-building center. A full-service bar along with eight flat-screen televisions was fully developed as a place to hang out and practice.
C&RB featured Mistwood’s new Performance Center bar in its Design Snapshot feature in the April 2014 issue (“Center of Attention“).
For practice and swing analysis, the facility offers high-tech teaching aides like TrackMan ball flight, SAM Putt Lab, and Quintic ball motion putting system making it a leader in golf teaching technology and one of the top facilities of its kind in the country.
McWethy didn’t stop with the award-winning facility and golf course improvements. He also brought in nationally acclaimed golf instructor Jim “Doc” Suttie, annually one of America’s 50 Best Teachers according to Golf Digest and part of GOLF Magazine’s Top 100 Teacher list who in 2000 was named the PGA National Teacher of the Year.
Mistwood’s Performance Center, whose teaching roster also includes John Platt, the 2011 Illinois PGA Teacher of the Year, Mike Baldwin and Chris Ioriatti, can easily claim the best teaching facility and technology in the Chicago area to go with a premier award-winning and polished championship golf course.
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