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River Heights Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in Dekalb, Illinois.

It plays 6,428 yards from the Blue tees, rated 71/129 (checked 2026-08-21).

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18
holes
72
par
6,428
yards (tips)
129
slope (blue)
The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLUE TEES382399532201374503119367340223168287382405371498471406142435435465738494103113124134144154165175184PAROUT 3,217 YDSIN 3,211 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

access
public
address
1020 Sharon Drive, Dekalb, IL, 60115
phone
815-758-1550
elevation
846 ft derived

41.91379, -88.76914 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

OpenStreetMap has this course's outline but has not traced any of its 18 holes. The shaded area is the property; no hole, green or tee is drawn.

The outline of River Heights Golf Course as OpenStreetMap holds it, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. No hole, green or tee has been traced inside it.

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The outline of River Heights Golf Course as OpenStreetMap holds it, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. No hole, green or tee has been traced inside it. The map itself needs JavaScript; the outline is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-10-08

The outline is the whole of the traced geometry here, so there is no hole or green to jump to and nothing to measure a yardage against.

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-21

All 3 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 3 rows.

Blue72642871.012932173211
White72613669.512530753061
Red72548767.611726742813

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 — every published tee

Scorecardreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-21

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 445345344334444554 72
Blue 382399532201374503119367340223168287382405371498471406 6,428
White 382373516176360460109359340197162271374391358478451379 6,136
Red 321363412167350300100351310185153252355363305430400370 5,487

We don't hold a stroke index for this course's holes, so that row is not above. The yardages are every figure we hold hole by hole.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan River Heights Golf Course 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

See the courses it plans Open the Studio

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

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to River Heights Golf Course's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Buena Vista Golf Course (3.3 mi) · Edgebrook Country Club (19 mi) · Bowes Creek Country Club (21 mi)

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
Longest6,428 yds251st of 452=6,566th of 12,025171st of 279 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,764th of 4,105 public courses · =3,296th of 7,004 courses you can book · =6,508th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread941 yds between tees316th of 427=8,564th of 11,523207th of 267 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =2,579th of 3,841 public courses · =4,668th of 6,653 courses you can book · =8,218th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level846 ft derived =31st of 479=4,563rd of 12,437=23rd of 291 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,772nd of 4,289 public courses · =2,963rd of 7,274 courses you can book · =3,193rd 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 progress2 of 6 built

2 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 3 sets of tees.
  • Course map, partly built.The course's outline is drawn, but none of its 18 holes has been traced in OpenStreetMap 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, partly built.4 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect, the year it opened and the grass on the greens.

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 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 2026-08-21. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Buena Vista Golf Course

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Kishwaukee Country Club

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Valley Lo Club

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Rich Harvest Farms Golf Course

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Black Sheep Golf Club

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Edgebrook Country Club

19 mi · Sandwich · semi-private · 18 holes

Prestbury Golf Course

20 mi · Sugar Grove · 18 holes

Bowes Creek Country Club

21 mi · Elgin · 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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