Big Run Golf Club is an 18-hole public course in Lockport, Illinois.

Designed by Harry B. Smead, Dick Nugent, Ken Killian. It plays 7,028 yards from the Championship tees, rated 74.6/142 (checked 2026-08-20).

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holes

par

7,028

yards (tips)

142

slope (championship)

The shape of the round · Championship teespublished figures only

The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer: Harry B. Smead, Dick Nugent, Ken Killian reported
access: public
address: 17211 West 135th Street, Lockport, IL
phone: 815-838-1057
website: course site →
elevation: 627 ft derived
opened: 1930
turf: Bent Grass greens · Blue Grass fairways
on site: pro shop · restaurant · lessons

41.63766, -88.03350 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. The green of hole 18 is predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. 22 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

214 features across 8 layers for Big Run Golf Club, 213 traced and 1 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Some outlines predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

7,008yds

Championship tees

610yds

Longest hole

153yds

Shortest hole

213 imported from OpenStreetMap and 1 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-08-09

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-20

Yardagesfrom the clubchecked 2026-08-20

All 4 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Championship	M	72	7028	74.6	142	3533	3475
Regular	M	72	6670	72.9	138	3350	3320
Ladies	M	72	6420	71.9	130
Senior	M	72	6250	70.7	133

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

Scorecard

Scorecardfrom the clubchecked 2026-08-20

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	4	4	3	5	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	4	5	3	4	5	72
Championship	375	415	435	160	540	465	153	380	610	300	425	415	225	400	600	200	370	540	7,028
Regular	360	400	410	145	515	420	130	365	605	305	410	400	185	375	585	175	355	530	6,670
Handicap	11	5	7	17	9	3	15	13	1	18	4	8	10	12	2	14	13	6

No per-hole yardages are published for Ladies and Senior, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Big Run Golf Club hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

The approach, planned Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

Plan this course in the Studio

Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Big Run Golf Club's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Old Oak Country Club (4.0 mi) · Broken Arrow Golf Club (4.3 mi) · Cog Hill Golf & Country Club (5.0 mi) · Course 4 Dubsdread at Cog Hill Golf and Country Club (5.1 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

Figure	This course	In Illinois	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	7,028 yds	53rd of 452	=1,642nd of 12,025	41st of 279 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =392nd of 4,105 public courses · =741st of 7,004 courses you can book · =1,636th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 142	=19th of 368	=617th of 8,710	=18th of 245 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =101st of 2,882 public courses · =213th of 4,936 courses you can book · =606th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 74.6	=35th of 318	=821st of 7,615	=30th of 215 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =178th of 2,412 public courses · =316th of 4,145 courses you can book · =817th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	778 yds between tees	341st of 427	=9,185th of 11,523	223rd of 267 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · 2,839th of 3,841 public courses · =5,054th of 6,653 courses you can book · =8,589th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1930	=87th of 272	=1,758th of 9,368	64th of 178 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =329th of 3,277 public courses · =696th of 5,526 courses you can book · =1,309th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	627 ft derived	=353rd of 479	=6,361st of 12,437	=248th of 291 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =2,548th of 4,289 public courses · =4,127th of 7,274 courses you can book · =4,526th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress5 of 6 built

5 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 2 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 4 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
Course details, built.All 7 background details — architect, year opened, access, contact and grass.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. What's left on this course is ours to build rather than ours to be told — it comes from mapping and survey data, not from a form. Coverage sets out where the whole database stands.

Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-21. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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