Bob O Link Golf Club is an 18-hole private course in Highland Park, Illinois.

Designed by Donald Ross, Dick Nugent, Jim Urbina, Jacobson Golf Course Design, Larry Packard. It plays 7,184 yards from the Green tees, rated 75.3/139 (checked 2026-08-14).

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holes

par

7,184

yards (tips)

139

slope (green)

The shape of the round · Blue 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: Donald Ross, Dick Nugent, Jim Urbina, Jacobson Golf Course Design, Larry Packard reported
access: private
address: 1120 Crofton Avenue North, Highland Park, IL, 60035
website: course site →
elevation: 636 ft derived
turf: Bent Grass greens · Bent Grass fairways

42.16958, -87.80650 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 49 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

200 traced features across 8 layers for Bob O Link Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,761yds

Blue tees

563yds

Longest hole

158yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-08-07 – 2019-08-09

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 7 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Green	M	71		7184	75.3	139
Green	F	71		7184	76.6	140
Blue	M	71contested	72	6744	73.2	134	3339	3422
Gold	M	71contested	72	6286	71.1	129	3129	3207
Gold	F	72		6286	72.4	130	3129	3207
Black	M	71contested	72	5485	67.4	120	2712	2773
Black	F	72		5485	68.7	122	2712	2773

Every figure as published except Card par (derived), which is summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

The Blue, Gold and Black tees publish a par the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Par column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own par row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

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	5	4	3	4	5	5	3	4	4	4	3	4	4	72
Blue	437	343	410	166	545	513	358	158	409	563	484	186	420	422	399	189	342	417	6,744
Gold	380	343	373	166	487	513	358	158	351	483	484	156	371	410	399	189	342	373	6,286
Black	341	268	341	124	442	440	311	131	314	483	442	156	323	307	293	158	278	333	5,485
Handicap	5	11	3	17	1	9	13	15	7	2	12	14	4	6	8	18	16	10

No per-hole yardages are published for Green, so it is not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Bob O Link 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 nearby

Bob O Link Golf Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Sunset Valley Golf Course (0.5 mi, public) · Glencoe Golf Club (2.1 mi, public)

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	7,184 yds	25th of 452	=706th of 12,025	17th of 279 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =267th of 2,954 private courses · =704th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 139	=46th of 368	=1,166th of 8,710	=39th of 245 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =518th of 2,300 private courses · =1,140th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 75.3	16th of 318	=360th of 7,615	14th of 215 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =164th of 2,143 private courses · =358th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,699 yds between tees	111th of 427	=4,116th of 11,523	79th of 267 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,208th of 2,885 private courses · =4,057th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	636 ft derived	334th of 479	=6,281st of 12,437	230th of 291 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · 1,267th of 3,026 private courses · =4,468th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 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 5 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 7 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, partly built.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold the year it opened and a phone number.

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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 2026-08-14. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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