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Ruth Lake Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Burr Ridge, Illinois.

Designed by William Langford, Theodore J. Moreau, Steve Forrest & Associates, Arthur Hills, Dick Nugent, Larry Packard. It plays 6,682 yards from the I tees, rated 73.7/135 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
71
par
6,682
yards (tips)
135
slope (i)
The shape of the round · I teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — I TEES331569238452523205370427447300363207525140493418463210142533445563748494104114123135143155164174183PAROUT 3,562 YDSIN 3,119 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
William Langford, Theodore J. Moreau, Steve Forrest & Associates, Arthur Hills, Dick Nugent, Larry Packard reported
access
private
address
South Jackson Street, Burr Ridge, IL, 60514
elevation
721 ft derived
opened
1915
turf
Bent Grass greens
on site
driving range · putting green · lessons

41.77806, -87.94122 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. The green of hole 10 is predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. 13 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

144 features across 7 layers for Ruth Lake Country Club, 126 traced and 18 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery.

Use arrow keys to pan, plus and minus to zoom. Tab reaches the map controls.

144 features across 7 layers for Ruth Lake Country Club, 126 traced and 18 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

18
Holes
17
Fairways · predicted
43
Bunkers
4
Water
18
Greens
6,681yds
I tees
569yds
Longest hole
140yds
Shortest hole

126 imported from OpenStreetMap and 18 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-08-09

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 10 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 10 rows, showing the start of the table.

IM71668273.713535623119
Championship HybridM71659872.9132
IIF72contested716404contested635178.414733842967
IIM716404contested635172.313233842967
Member HybridM71620471.4130
IIIM71580969.612531052689
IIIF72contested71580975.114031052689
ChampionshipF72contested71546873.213629352517
IVF72contested71527472.113428162426
IVM71527467.211928162426

Every figure as published except Card par (derived) and Card yards (derived), which are 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 II, III, Championship and IV 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.

The II 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 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 453453444443535443 71
I 331569238452523205370427447300363207525140493418463210 6,682
II 321553201424513164364406438290328194518135475409446172 6,404
III 304535172342451145338390428275321177476116423382371148 5,809
Championship 304494137317451135338331428275267177433116423346363117 5,468
IV 256494137317417135330331399240267130433112418346363117 5,274
Handicap 142166101812849111311775315

No per-hole yardages are published for Championship Hybrid and Member Hybrid, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Ruth Lake Country Club 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 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

Plan this course in 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 nearby

Ruth Lake Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Flagg Creek Golf Course (2.7 mi, public) · Willow Crest Golf Club (3.3 mi, resort) · Meadowlark Golf Course (3.9 mi, public) · Carriage Greens Golf Club (3.9 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
Longest6,682 yds169th of 452=4,502nd of 12,025120th of 279 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,525th of 2,954 private courses · =4,470th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 135=94th of 368=2,233rd of 8,710=77th of 245 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =978th of 2,300 private courses · =2,185th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 73.7=66th of 318=1,718th of 7,615=57th of 215 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =708th of 2,143 private courses · =1,703rd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,408 yds between tees194th of 427=6,048th of 11,523139th of 267 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,735th of 2,885 private courses · =5,950th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1915=34th of 272=544th of 9,36826th of 178 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =321st of 2,418 private courses · =395th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level721 ft derived =167th of 479=5,582nd of 12,437=108th of 291 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,096th of 3,026 private courses · =3,948th 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 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 8 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 10 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, partly built.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold 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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Nearby courses

Hinsdale Golf Club

2.1 mi · Clarendon Hills · private · 18 holes

Flagg Creek Golf Course

2.7 mi · Countryside · public · 9 holes

Edgewood Valley Country Club

3.2 mi · Willow Springs · private · 18 holes

Willow Crest Golf Club

3.3 mi · Westmont · resort · 18 holes

La Grange Country Club

3.4 mi · La Grange · private · 18 holes

Meadowlark Golf Course

3.9 mi · Hinsdale · public · 9 holes

Carriage Greens Golf Club

3.9 mi · Darien · public · 18 holes

Butler National Golf Club

4.3 mi · Oak Brook · private · 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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