Golf in Village of Lakewood

The Village of Lakewood is a community in McHenry County, set near Crystal Lake in Chicago's northwest exurbs. The wooded, water-laced terrain of the Fox River valley defines the surrounding country, where former farmland has shifted toward low-density residential use. Lakewood developed as a quiet, spacious community that has kept a measure of its rural character even as neighboring towns grew busier. Its setting amid woodland and small waterways gives it a leafy, open feel distinct from the denser suburbs to the east. Golf is a notable presence here, with a course occupying the open and wooded ground of the Fox River valley. For golfers, Lakewood offers a round within a part of McHenry County that has balanced residential growth with the woods and water that shaped its setting, in one of the greener corners of the northwest exurbs near Crystal Lake.