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Conway Farms Golf Club is an 18-hole private course in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Designed by Tom Fazio, Andy Banfield, Dennis Wise. It plays 7,233 yards from the Black tees, rated 76.3/152 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
71
par
7,233
yards (tips)
152
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES377210406454446212315610433400155418434536332433215560142334445463748594104113124134145154164173185PAROUT 3,463 YDSIN 3,483 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
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
Tom Fazio, Andy Banfield, Dennis Wise reported
access
private
address
425 South Conway Farms Drive, Lake Forest, IL, 60045
phone
847-234-6979
elevation
704 ft derived
opened
1991
turf
Bent Grass greens · Bent Grass fairways
on site
pro shop

42.22991, -87.88909 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. Holes 5 to 18: lines and greens predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. Other holes: traced by OpenStreetMap contributors. 20 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

128 features across 8 layers for Conway Farms Golf Club, 100 traced and 28 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery.

Use arrow keys to pan, plus and minus to zoom. Tab reaches the map controls.

128 features across 8 layers for Conway Farms Golf Club, 100 traced and 28 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 5 to 18 predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

18
Holes
36
Fairways
15
Bunkers
2
Water
18
Greens
15
Tee pads
6,946yds
Black tees
610yds
Longest hole
155yds
Shortest hole

100 imported from OpenStreetMap and the lines and greens of holes 5 to 18 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-08-09

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 8 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 8 rows.

BlackM717233contested694676.315234633483
GreenM716803contested645674.214632313225
Blue PlusM71660973.4143
BlueM716294contested597771.813829922985
ClassicM71614770.5135
WhiteM715939contested524070.213426402600
Gold PlusM71546965.1122
GoldM715146contested426871.012920762192

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, Green, Blue, White and Gold 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 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 434443454434454435 71
Black 377210406454446212315610433400155418434536332433215560 7,233
Green 358177374431424197301536433372142369425497306381195538 6,803
Blue 339150358405394184288506368348128338390458288335186514 6,294
White 304121313373353161243441331297114286331402287275167441 5,939
Gold 22710726628626994194387246262100244249344249232128384 5,146
Handicap 111793113155710181226144168

No per-hole yardages are published for Blue Plus, Classic and Gold Plus, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Conway Farms 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 A Studio approach map on the aerial photo: a lob wedge aimed at the island green, its spread drawn as a dashed ring over the water, and the side it most often misses. Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • The green, from LiDAR A Studio green view on the aerial photo: arrows for the slope a LiDAR survey measured, the area a cup could be cut, and the safer side to miss. Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • Every shot, tee to green A Studio plan on the aerial photo of a desert par 4: the driver off the tee and a 7-iron into the green between the bunkers, each shot with its landing spread drawn as a dashed ring. 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.

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Book nearby

Conway Farms Golf Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Deerpath Golf Course (2.3 mi, public) · Crane's Landing Golf Club at Marriott Lincolnshire Resort (3.0 mi, resort) · Deerfield Golf Tennis Club (3.8 mi, public) · Lake Bluff Golf Course (4.0 mi, public)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn IllinoisNationwideAmong its peers
Longest7,233 yds19th of 452=528th of 12,02512th of 279 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · 201st of 2,954 private courses · =528th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 152=3rd of 368=35th of 8,710=3rd of 245 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =16th of 2,300 private courses · =34th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 76.37th of 318=132nd of 7,6157th of 215 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =56th of 2,143 private courses · =132nd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,087 yds between tees47th of 427=1,823rd of 11,52330th of 267 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =564th of 2,885 private courses · =1,785th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1991=195th of 272=6,412th of 9,368=128th of 178 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,861st of 2,418 private courses · =4,615th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level704 ft derived =182nd of 479=5,681st of 12,437=116th of 291 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,119th of 3,026 private courses · =4,017th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

A published figure is compared only against the courses that publish it too, which is why the totals differ from row to row — a state's length field is the courses with a scorecard, not the courses in the state. Height above sea level is the exception: we derive it from a coordinate, so its field is very nearly every course we render. Ties share an ordinal and are marked =. How this is computed →

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 5 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 8 sets of tees.
  • Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery. Holes 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 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 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 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, 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 2026-08-14. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Deerfield Golf Tennis Club

3.8 mi · Riverwoods · public · 18 holes

Lake Bluff Golf Course

4.0 mi · Lake Bluff · public · 18 holes

Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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