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Emerald Hill is an 18-hole public golf course in Sterling, Illinois.

It plays 6,318 yards from the Black tees, rated 70.3/121 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
6,318
yards (tips)
121
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES362166341187360326508460405384175277437395192363503480142334435464758594104113124134144153164175185PAROUT 3,115 YDSIN 3,206 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

access
public
address
16802 Prairieville Rd, Sterling, IL 61081, USA
phone
815-622-6204
elevation
734 ft derived
opened
1923
turf
bentgrass greens · Kentucky bluegrass fairways
on site
driving range

41.82809, -89.62969 — open on OpenStreetMap →

From above

Aerial imagery of the area around Emerald Hill. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it, and the frame follows the course's location rather than a surveyed property line.

Aerial imagery of the area around Emerald Hill, NAIP 2019. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it.

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Aerial imagery of the area around Emerald Hill, NAIP 2019. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it. The map itself needs JavaScript.

Aerial imagery only, nothing traced over it yet · USDA NAIP 2019-08-02

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 3 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 3 rows.

BlackM72631870.312131153206
WhiteM72600068.811829593041
RedF72497068.311224762511

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 — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 434344554434443455 72
Black 362166341187360326508460405384175277437395192363503480 6,318
White 352155327163325322484431400372159262389384180337495463 6,000
Red 314120249146292216437380322351149242312263148313352381 4,970
Handicap 513731517911110161828414126

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Emerald Hill hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard, but nobody has traced its holes: the bunkers, water and fairway edges a plan aims around.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

  • 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

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

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Book a tee time

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

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Also bookable nearby: Emerald Hill Golf Course (0.1 mi) · Timber Creek Golf (7.7 mi) · Timber Creek (7.8 mi) · Deer Valley Golf Club (14 mi)

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
Longest6,318 yds281st of 452=7,264th of 12,025=2,002nd of 4,105 public courses · =3,702nd of 7,004 courses you can book · =7,199th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 121=265th of 368=6,370th of 8,710=1,728th of 2,882 public courses · =3,231st of 4,936 courses you can book · =5,989th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 70.3=243rd of 318=5,862nd of 7,615=1,593rd of 2,412 public courses · =2,933rd of 4,145 courses you can book · =5,761st of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,348 yds between tees=207th of 427=6,436th of 11,523=1,846th of 3,841 public courses · =3,443rd of 6,653 courses you can book · =6,331st of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1923=60th of 272=1,001st of 9,368=134th of 3,277 public courses · =315th of 5,526 courses you can book · =746th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level734 ft derived =147th of 479=5,484th of 12,437=2,170th of 4,289 public courses · =3,580th of 7,274 courses you can book · =3,877th 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 progress2 of 6 built

2 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 3 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 3 sets of tees.
  • Course map, not built yet.We don't have a map of this course yet.
  • Per-hole distances, not built yet.The holes aren't traced yet, so there are no measured carries or distances to the green.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect.

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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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Timber Creek

7.8 mi · Dixon · public · 18 holes

Deer Valley Golf Club

14 mi · public · 18 holes

Oregon Country Club

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Silver Ridge

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Golf Club of Illinois

22 mi · Algonquin · public · 18 holes

Fulton Country Club

27 mi · private · 9 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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