Salem Country Club is an 18-hole semi-private golf course in Salem, Illinois.

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holes

par

6,467

yards (tips)

122

slope (championship)

The shape of the round · Championship 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: Donald J. Ross, ASGCA reported
access: semi-private
address: 700 Divot Drive, Salem, IL, 62881
phone: 618-548-2975
website: course site →
elevation: 524 ft derived
opened: 1920
turf: Bent Grass greens · Bermuda Grass fairways
on site: driving range · putting green

38.61308, -88.93731 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. The green of hole 8 is predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. 12 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

117 features across 8 layers for Salem Country Club, 116 traced and 1 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

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,434yds

Championship tees

565yds

Longest hole

140yds

Shortest hole

116 imported from OpenStreetMap and 1 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-07-13 – 2019-09-12

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

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


Championship	M	72	6467	69.0	122	3268	3166
Middle	M	72	6122	68.0	120
Forward	F	73	5232	69.8	119

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	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	4	3	4	4	5	4	3	5	3	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	5	72
Championship	370	373	183	400	340	500	402	175	525	180	565	430	385	383	280	320	140	483	6,467
Handicap	12	16	18	2	14	10	4	8	6	3	7	11	5	1	17	15	13	9

No per-hole yardages are published for Middle and Forward, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Salem 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 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

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

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Salem Country Club'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: Greenview Golf Club (14 mi) · Governors Run Golf Course (18 mi) · Clay County Country Club (22 mi) · Nashville Golf Course (30 mi)

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	6,467 yds	=238th of 452	=6,308th of 12,025	41st of 80 in the St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL combined area · 935th of 2,030 semi-private courses · =3,146th of 7,004 courses you can book · =6,253rd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 122	=254th of 368	=6,159th of 8,710	41st of 60 in the St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL combined area · =925th of 1,395 semi-private courses · =3,080th of 4,936 courses you can book · =5,821st of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 69.0	=278th of 318	=6,682nd of 7,615	46th of 56 in the St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL combined area · =1,007th of 1,141 semi-private courses · =3,483rd of 4,145 courses you can book · =6,523rd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,235 yds between tees	239th of 427	=7,127th of 11,523	56th of 74 in the St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL combined area · =1,161st of 1,970 semi-private courses · =3,836th of 6,653 courses you can book · =6,991st of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1920	=40th of 272	=725th of 9,368	5th of 50 in the St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL combined area · =91st of 1,516 semi-private courses · =206th of 5,526 courses you can book · =535th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	524 ft derived	449th of 479	=7,074th of 12,437	52nd of 86 in the St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL combined area · =1,178th of 2,089 semi-private courses · =4,564th of 7,274 courses you can book · =5,025th 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 1 set of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 3 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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