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Merit Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Libertyville, Illinois.

Designed by Bob Lohmann. It plays 7,119 yards from the Championship tees, rated 75.1/138 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
7,119
yards (tips)
138
slope (championship)
The shape of the round · Men teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — MEN TEES399187539396376336151502388410163569343406376158380523142335445464738594104113125134144154163174185PAROUT 3,274 YDSIN 3,328 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
Bob Lohmann reported
access
private
address
1500 Merit Club Lane, Libertyville, IL, 60048
phone
847-918-8800
elevation
703 ft derived
opened
1992
turf
Bent Grass greens · Bent Grass fairways
on site
pro shop · restaurant

42.33497, -87.96301 — open on OpenStreetMap →

From above

Aerial imagery of the area around Merit Club. 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 Merit Club, 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 Merit Club, 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 2019-08-09

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 5 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 5 rows.

ChampionshipM72711975.1138
MenM72662372.813332743328
FrontF72610975.513630413081
FrontM72610970.512830413081
WomenM72524672.113126052641

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 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 435444354435444345 72
Men 399187539396376336151502388410163569343406376158380523 6,623
Front 366172499374360306149462353376157533313372345145355485 6,109
Women 316144436292326255113401322315143449262313291128327413 5,246
Handicap 111515913173714182104121686

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

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Merit Club 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 nearby

Merit Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Brae Loch Golf Course (2.6 mi, public) · Bittersweet Golf Club (2.9 mi, public) · Pine Meadow Golf Club (3.4 mi, public) · Village Green Country Club (3.7 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
Longest7,119 yds36th of 452=984th of 12,02526th of 279 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =363rd of 2,954 private courses · =982nd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 138=54th of 368=1,412th of 8,710=45th of 245 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =632nd of 2,300 private courses · =1,381st of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 75.1=17th of 318=458th of 7,615=15th of 215 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =199th of 2,143 private courses · =455th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,873 yds between tees74th of 427=2,978th of 11,52346th of 267 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =912th of 2,885 private courses · =2,931st of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1992=202nd of 272=6,580th of 9,368=131st of 178 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,885th of 2,418 private courses · =4,758th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level703 ft derived =186th of 479=5,694th of 12,437=119th of 291 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,122nd of 3,026 private courses · =4,028th 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 progress3 of 6 built

3 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 4 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 5 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, 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.

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Nearby courses

Merit Club

0.4 mi · Libertyville · private · 18 holes

Brae Loch Golf Course

2.6 mi · Wildwood · public · 18 holes

Bittersweet Golf Club

2.9 mi · Gurnee · public · 18 holes

Pine Meadow Golf Club

3.4 mi · Libertyville · public · 18 holes

Village Green Country Club

3.7 mi · Mundelein · public · 18 holes

Bunker Hills Golf Course

4.1 mi · Coon Rapids · public · 18 holes

Foss Park Golf Course

4.4 mi · North Chicago · 18 holes

Va Jo Wa Golf Club

5.1 mi · Great Lakes · 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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