CHALET HILLS GOLF CLUB
🇺🇸 Cary, IL, USA
Designed by Ken Killian


Chalet Hills Golf Club sits in Cary, a northwest suburban community of Chicago, and was designed by Ken Killian, a prolific Illinois-based architect whose work spans several decades across the Midwest. Killian, who studied under Dick Nugent and later partnered with Dick Nugent and Jeff Brauer at various points in his career, developed a reputation for creating playable yet strategic courses suited to their regional landscapes. His designs typically emphasize natural landforms and practical shot values rather than excessive length or artificial difficulty.
The course occupies rolling terrain characteristic of the glaciated landscape northwest of Chicago, where moderate elevation changes and mature tree corridors define the playing corridors. Killian's routing likely takes advantage of these natural contours to create variety in stance and approach angles, with greens that incorporate subtle internal movement. The layout serves a membership-focused club environment, where the course functions as the centerpiece of community golf life rather than a tournament venue.
Chalet Hills represents the kind of solid daily-fee or semi-private facility common to Chicago's outer suburbs, where accessibility and year-round member play take precedence over national rankings or championship hosting. The course provides a straightforward test of accuracy and course management within a wooded, residential setting typical of northern Illinois golf development from the latter decades of the twentieth century.
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Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.
Chalet Hills at Chalet Hills Golf Club has a Course Vaults score of 6.9 out of 10 based on 9 explicit golfer ratings.
Chalet Hills was designed by Ken Killian.
Yes. Chalet Hills at Chalet Hills Golf Club is listed as welcoming public or guest play on Course Vaults.
Par at Chalet Hills is 73.
Chalet Hills plays 6,877 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.
The slope rating at Chalet Hills is 140.