Knollwood Club Golf Course is an 18-hole private course in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Designed by H. S. Colt, C. H. Alison, Keith Foster, Larry Packard, Kevin Hargrave, Keith Foster. It plays 7,202 yards from the Back tees, rated 75.5/142 (checked 2026-08-14).

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holes

par

7,202

yards (tips)

142

slope (back)

The shape of the round · Back 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, Keith Foster, Larry Packard, Kevin Hargrave, Keith Foster reported
access: private
address: 1890 Knollwood Road, Lake Forest, IL, 60045
phone: 847-234-1600
website: course site →
elevation: 696 ft derived
opened: 1924
turf: Bent Grass greens · Bent Grass fairways
on site: driving range · putting green · lessons

42.27432, -87.88252 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 3 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

196 features across 7 layers for Knollwood Club Golf Course, 132 traced and 64 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Some outlines predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers · predicted

Water

Greens

Tee pads

7,094yds

Back tees

594yds

Longest hole

170yds

Shortest hole

132 imported from OpenStreetMap and 64 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, 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


Back	M	72	7202contested	7094	75.5	142	3513	3581
Member	M	72	6682		73.1	136
Middle	M	72	5934		69.7	127	2934	3032
Front	M	72	5707contested	5066	73.6	136	2429	2637

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 Back and Front 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	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	4	4	3	4	5	3	5	4	5	4	3	4	4	4	5	3	4	72
Back	439	350	403	172	423	503	230	577	416	594	466	170	314	454	396	526	204	457	7,202
Middle	387	297	348	134	377	438	150	452	351	506	393	135	270	373	328	447	167	413	5,934
Front	324	243	278	108	287	372	118	395	304	453	351	110	243	350	286	387	111	346	5,707
Handicap	7	5	9	15	1	11	17	3	13	2	8	16	10	4	6	14	18	12

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

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Knollwood Club Golf Course 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

Plan this course in the Studio

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Book nearby

Knollwood Club Golf Course states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Lake Bluff Golf Course (1.2 mi, public) · Deerpath Golf Course (1.9 mi, public) · Va Jo Wa Golf Club (2.5 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	7,202 yds	23rd of 452	=641st of 12,025	16th of 279 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =244th of 2,954 private courses · =640th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 142	=19th of 368	=617th of 8,710	=18th of 245 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =282nd of 2,300 private courses · =606th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 75.5	=10th of 318	=287th of 7,615	=8th of 215 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =135th of 2,143 private courses · =285th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,495 yds between tees	171st of 427	=5,442nd of 11,523	123rd of 267 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · 1,590th of 2,885 private courses · =5,367th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1924	=65th of 272	=1,112th of 9,368	=47th of 178 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =607th of 2,418 private courses · =827th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	696 ft derived	=202nd of 479	=5,748th of 12,437	=131st of 291 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,134th of 3,026 private courses · =4,075th 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 3 sets 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.
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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