River Forest Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Illinois.

Designed by Charles Maddox, Frank P. MacDonald, Greg Martin, Larry Packard. It plays 6,831 yards from the Blue tees, rated 73.2/136 (checked 2026-08-14).

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holes

par

6,831

yards (tips)

136

slope (blue)

The shape of the round · Blue 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: Charles Maddox, Frank P. MacDonald, Greg Martin, Larry Packard reported
access: private
address: Grand Avenue, IL, 60106
elevation: 677 ft derived
turf: Bent Grass greens · Bent Grass fairways
on site: driving range · putting green

41.93538, -87.92968 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes, their lines predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery and numbered against the scorecard. Its greens, fairways, bunkers and water are predicted the same way. The course outline is predicted too, drawn around the predicted holes and wide of the mown ground, so the real property line may sit wider or tighter.

120 features across 6 layers for River Forest Country Club, all 120 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

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

Holes · predicted

Fairways · predicted

Bunkers · predicted

Water · predicted

Greens · predicted

6,816yds

Blue tees

571yds

Longest hole

163yds

Shortest hole

All 120 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-08-09

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

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


Blue	M	72		6831	73.2	136	3423	3393
Member	M	72		6650	72.5	134	3327	3321
Gold	M	72		6481	72.0	133	3238	3217
White	M	72		6082	70.1	129	3021	3017
Red	F	73contested	72	5692	73.3	130	2788	2859

Every figure as published except Card par (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 Red tees publish a par 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 Par column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own par row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

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	3	5	4	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	3	5	4	72
Blue	325	422	190	570	408	402	206	571	329	390	163	391	520	453	405	210	531	330	6,831
Member	325	397	166	570	408	402	189	556	314	375	163	380	520	422	405	195	531	330	6,650
Gold	308	397	166	553	386	369	189	556	314	375	145	380	509	422	379	195	498	314	6,481
White	286	376	142	509	356	342	170	536	304	361	129	346	497	380	354	180	475	295	6,082
Red	275	335	111	499	330	325	141	485	287	343	119	332	440	411	340	156	445	273	5,692
Handicap	13	7	17	3	5	9	15	1	11	10	18	4	2	6	12	16	8	14

The Studio

The Studio can't plan River Forest Country Club hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 120 of its features, all 120 predicted by a model, but not a model of every green, which a plan aims at.

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

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

Book nearby

River Forest Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: White Pines Golf Club (0.9 mi, public) · The Preserve at Oak Meadows (2.6 mi, public) · Maple Meadows Golf Club (3.5 mi, municipal) · Edgebrook Golf Course (4.2 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	6,831 yds	=115th of 452	=3,206th of 12,025	87th of 279 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,123rd of 2,954 private courses · =3,185th 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 · =871st of 2,300 private courses · =1,911th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 73.2	=96th of 318	=2,396th of 7,615	=81st of 215 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =975th of 2,143 private courses · =2,376th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,139 yds between tees	=271st of 427	=7,667th of 11,523	180th of 267 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =2,164th of 2,885 private courses · =7,482nd of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	677 ft derived	=251st of 479	=5,920th of 12,437	166th of 291 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,176th of 3,026 private courses · =4,202nd of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 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 5 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 holes and their greens are drawn, predicted by a model from aerial imagery and shown over it.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole's line of play is predicted from aerial imagery, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along that predicted line.
Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
Course details, partly built.4 of 7 background details — we don't hold the year it opened, a website and a phone number.

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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