Highlands of Elgin is an 18-hole municipal golf course in Elgin, Illinois.

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holes

par

7,000

yards (tips)

136

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: Keith Foster, Art Schaupeter reported
access: municipal
address: 875 Sports Way, Elgin, IL, 60123
phone: 847-931-5950
website: course site →
elevation: 776 ft derived
opened: 2003
turf: Bluegrass greens · Bent Grass fairways
on site: putting green · pro shop · lessons

42.01685, -88.30399 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 22 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

282 traced features across 8 layers for Highlands of Elgin, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

7,000yds

Black tees

581yds

Longest hole

155yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, 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	72	7000	73.8	136	3565	3435
Black/Gold	M	72	6786	72.9	134
Gold	M	72	6365	71.1	130	3212	3153
Silver	M	72	5625	67.7	122	2798	2827
Silver	F	72	5625	72.1	125	2798	2827
White	F	72	4901	68.1	116	2438	2463

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	5	4	3	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	5	4	5	3	4	3	4	72
Black	414	561	383	155	436	581	254	363	418	395	471	530	310	511	166	440	198	414	7,000
Gold	372	522	355	134	399	535	203	324	368	369	429	502	280	480	137	404	167	385	6,365
Silver	311	451	310	107	351	491	167	290	320	348	369	479	255	432	109	360	144	331	5,625
White	277	420	268	76	309	439	125	233	291	312	323	439	201	394	73	309	123	289	4,901
Handicap	12	2	16	18	10	4	14	8	6	11	1	5	17	7	15	3	13	9

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

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Highlands of Elgin 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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Also bookable nearby: Wing Park Golf Course (2.3 mi) · Villa Olivia Country Club (4.2 mi) · Bowes Creek Country Club (4.4 mi) · Barlett hills golf club (5.7 mi)

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	7,000 yds	=61st of 452	=2,015th of 12,025	49th of 279 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · 29th of 268 municipal courses · =931st of 7,004 courses you can book · =2,006th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 136	=81st of 368	=1,956th of 8,710	=69th of 245 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =18th of 182 municipal courses · =767th of 4,936 courses you can book · =1,911th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 73.8	=64th of 318	=1,605th of 7,615	56th of 215 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =18th of 146 municipal courses · =661st of 4,145 courses you can book · =1,592nd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	2,099 yds between tees	45th of 427	=1,768th of 11,523	29th of 267 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · 24th of 249 municipal courses · =841st of 6,653 courses you can book · =1,731st of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 2003	=253rd of 272	=8,576th of 9,368	=161st of 178 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =193rd of 217 municipal courses · =5,070th of 5,526 courses you can book · =6,366th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	776 ft derived	=89th of 479	=5,163rd of 12,437	57th of 291 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · 133rd of 280 municipal courses · =3,361st of 7,274 courses you can book · =3,637th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

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 6 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
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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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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