Golf in Hawthorn Woods

Hawthorn Woods is a Lake County village that incorporated specifically to control its own development — a pattern common in the northwest suburbs where communities have used municipal status to resist the annexation pressure from larger neighbors. The community's name references the native hawthorn thickets that dominated the local hedgerows before agricultural clearing and then residential development altered the landscape. Hawthorn Woods Country Club functions as the community's defining social and recreational institution, its existence woven into the rationale for the village's incorporation. Illinois' changing seasons create an enthusiastic golf community that maximizes every available day of good weather, sustaining the local course as a central gathering point through the compressed but celebrated Midwest golf season.