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Fore Way Challenge Golf & Driving Range is a 10-hole course in Effingham, Illinois.

Designed by John McNeely/Bill Schmidt. It plays 2,910 yards from the Blue tees, rated 32.7/108 (checked 2026-08-14).

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10
holes
40
par
2,910
yards (tips)
108
slope (blue)

The course

designer
John McNeely/Bill Schmidt reported
address
16401 N 1000th St, Effingham, IL
elevation
606 ft derived
opened
2000

39.15261, -88.61846 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows 9 of 10 holes. OpenStreetMap has not traced hole 10. 3 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one. The map below draws everything that has been traced.

68 traced features across 8 layers for Fore Way Challenge Golf & Driving Range, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery.

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68 traced features across 8 layers for Fore Way Challenge Golf & Driving Range, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

9
Holes
13
Fairways
2
Bunkers
6
Water
9
Greens
17
Tee pads

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-07-13

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 1 tee set par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 1 rows.

BlueM36291032.7108

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes.

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
Longest2,910 yds408th of 452=10,762nd of 12,025
Toughest testslope 108=344th of 368=8,067th of 8,710
Hardest from the tipsrating 32.7318th of 3187,592nd of 7,615
Oldestopened 2000=247th of 272=8,024th of 9,368
Highest above sea level606 ft derived =395th of 479=6,556th of 12,437

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 progress1 of 6 built

1 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

  • Scorecard, not built yet.We know it plays 10 holes, but we don't have the scorecard yet — no par or yardage per hole.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 1 set of tees.
  • Course map, partly built.9 of the 10 greens are drawn — the rest of the course isn't mapped yet.
  • Per-hole distances, partly built.9 of the 10 holes are traced — the others have no measured distances yet.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.3 of 7 background details — we don't hold whether it is public or private, a website and a phone number, and 1 more.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. Know something we don't? Help us fill it in — a link to where it's published is worth more than anything else you could send.

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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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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