Bowes Creek Country Club is an 18-hole public golf course in Elgin, Illinois.

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holes

par

6,917

yards (tips)

142

slope (black)

The shape of the round · Black 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: Rick Jacobson reported
access: public
address: 1250 Bowes Creek Boulevard, Elgin, IL, 60124
elevation: 801 ft derived
opened: 2009
on site: driving range · putting green · lessons

41.99649, -88.38573 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. Holes 10 to 16 and 18: lines and greens predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. Other holes: traced by OpenStreetMap contributors. 25 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

193 features across 8 layers for Bowes Creek Country Club, 177 traced and 16 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes 10 to 16 and 18 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

6,794yds

Black tees

591yds

Longest hole

169yds

Shortest hole

177 imported from OpenStreetMap and the lines and greens of holes 10 to 16 and 18 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-09-14

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 6 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Black	M	71	6917contested	6794	73.2	142	3572	3222
Blue	M	71	6569contested	6412	71.5	138	3372	3040
White	F	71	6120contested	5942	74.7	135	3150	2792
White	M	71	6120contested	5942	69.3	133	3150	2792
Red	F	71	5626contested	5382	71.5	128	2861	2521
Gold	F	71	5029		68.1	121

Every figure as published except Card yards (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 Black, Blue, White and Red tees publish a yardage total 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 Yards column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own yardage 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	3	4	3	5	4	5	4	5	4	4	4	3	4	3	4	4	71
Black	384	436	200	384	233	530	438	591	376	505	391	344	376	169	427	205	370	435	6,917
Blue	360	418	182	364	215	500	419	558	356	490	360	330	349	155	401	187	348	420	6,569
White	335	397	166	335	197	478	387	523	332	475	316	292	320	147	369	167	325	381	6,120
Red	305	310	154	305	179	456	354	491	307	445	250	272	294	130	343	157	281	349	5,626
Handicap	9	7	17	11	15	3	5	1	13	2	10	8	14	18	4	16	12	6

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

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Bowes Creek Country 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.

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	6,917 yds	=78th of 452	=2,510th of 12,025	=61st of 279 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =632nd of 4,105 public courses · =1,182nd of 7,004 courses you can book · =2,494th 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 73.2	=96th of 318	=2,396th of 7,615	=81st of 215 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =520th of 2,412 public courses · =1,026th of 4,145 courses you can book · =2,376th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,888 yds between tees	71st of 427	=2,882nd of 11,523	43rd of 267 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =738th of 3,841 public courses · =1,414th of 6,653 courses you can book · =2,835th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 2009	265th of 272	=9,101st of 9,368	=171st of 178 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =3,212th of 3,277 public courses · =5,376th of 5,526 courses you can book · =6,806th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	801 ft derived	=63rd of 479	=4,960th of 12,437	=37th of 291 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,932nd of 4,289 public courses · =3,219th of 7,274 courses you can book · =3,491st 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 6 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery. Holes 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18 are predicted from aerial imagery; OpenStreetMap traced the rest.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole has a line of play, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along it. Holes 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18 are predicted from aerial imagery; OpenStreetMap traced the rest.
Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
Course details, partly built.4 of 7 background details — we don't hold a website, a phone number and the grass on the greens.

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Sources

Gathered from the course's own published information 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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