Briarwood Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Deerfield, Illinois.

Designed by H. S. Colt, C. H. Alison, Mark Mungeam, Geoffrey Cornish, Bob Lohmann, Brad Bartell. It plays 6,810 yards from the Gold tees, rated 74.3/138 (checked 2026-08-14).

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holes

par

6,810

yards (tips)

138

slope (gold)

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: H. S. Colt, C. H. Alison, Mark Mungeam, Geoffrey Cornish, Bob Lohmann, Brad Bartell reported
access: private
address: 355 Deerfield Road, IL, 60015
elevation: 686 ft derived
opened: 1921
turf: Bent Grass greens · Bent Grass fairways
on site: driving range · putting green · restaurant

42.16176, -87.83815 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. Holes 4 and 10 to 18: lines and greens predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. Other holes: traced by OpenStreetMap contributors. 9 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

111 features across 8 layers for Briarwood Country Club, 89 traced and 22 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 4 and 10 to 18 and some outlines predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water · predicted

Greens

Tee pads

6,570yds

Blue tees

545yds

Longest hole

150yds

Shortest hole

89 imported from OpenStreetMap and 22 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, the lines and greens of holes 4 and 10 to 18 among them, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-08-09

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

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


Gold	M	71	6810	74.3	138
Blue	M	71	6575	72.4	134	3420	3150
White	M	71	6375	70.7	130
Red	F	72	5889	73.5	130

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

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	5	3	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	4	3	4	4	4	71
Blue	410	375	545	195	520	380	400	175	420	370	150	435	490	370	175	400	380	380	6,575
Handicap	7	13	1	15	9	11	5	17	3	12	16	2	10	8	18	4	6	14

No per-hole yardages are published for Gold, White and Red, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Briarwood 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

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Book nearby

Briarwood Country 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 (1.7 mi, public) · Deerfield Golf Tennis Club (2.3 mi, public) · Heritage Oaks Golf Club (2.4 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	6,810 yds	124th of 452	=3,413th of 12,025	94th of 279 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,194th of 2,954 private courses · =3,388th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 138	=54th of 368	=1,412th of 8,710	=45th of 245 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =632nd of 2,300 private courses · =1,381st of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 74.3	=46th of 318	=1,092nd of 7,615	=40th of 215 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =477th of 2,143 private courses · =1,084th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	921 yds between tees	318th of 427	=8,626th of 11,523	208th of 267 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · 2,396th of 2,885 private courses · =8,255th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1921	=46th of 272	=816th of 9,368	=35th of 178 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =465th of 2,418 private courses · =594th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	686 ft derived	=227th of 479	=5,843rd of 12,437	=152nd of 291 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,156th of 3,026 private courses · =4,147th 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 1 set 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. Holes 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 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 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 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.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold a website and a phone number.

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Sources

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