Spencer T. Olin Community Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in Alton, Illinois.

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holes

par

6,963

yards (tips)

135

slope (tips)

The shape of the round · Tips 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: Arnold Palmer, Ed Seay reported
access: public
address: Arnold Palmer Road, Alton, IL, 62018
elevation: 482 ft derived
turf: Penncross bentgrass greens · Zoysia Grass fairways
on site: driving range · putting green · lessons

38.90324, -90.10848 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 26 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

265 traced features across 8 layers for Spencer T. Olin Community Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,963yds

Tips tees

565yds

Longest hole

149yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-09-23

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 8 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Tips	M	72	6963	73.5	135	3420	3543
Challenge	M	72	6670	71.5	133	3268	3402
Tournament	M	72	6432	70.9	130	3170	3262
S.T.O Member	M	72	6129	69.4	125
Arnie's	M	72	5847	68.8	117
Casual	F	72	5407	70.8	119	2665	2742
Forward	F	72	5049	65.6	110	2459	2590
Newcomer	M	72	4607

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	5	4	3	4	4	5	3	4	4	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	72
Tips	565	380	185	425	361	534	149	406	415	377	540	439	452	180	358	472	222	503	6,963
Challenge	540	380	185	383	361	508	149	380	382	377	514	413	423	180	358	412	222	503	6,670
Tournament	540	346	163	383	343	508	125	380	382	346	514	413	423	145	338	412	204	467	6,432
Casual	473	309	140	306	317	401	115	293	311	326	401	306	330	127	317	330	163	442	5,407
Forward	423	275	118	306	229	401	103	293	311	267	401	306	330	107	272	330	163	414	5,049
Handicap	12	10	16	4	14	6	18	2	8	15	7	1	5	13	9	3	11	17

No per-hole yardages are published for S.T.O Member, Arnie's and Newcomer, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Spencer T. Olin Community Golf Course 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

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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	6,963 yds	67th of 452	=2,177th of 12,025	15th of 75 in the St. Louis, MO-IL metro area · 534th of 4,105 public courses · 1,012th of 7,004 courses you can book · =2,164th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 135	=94th of 368	=2,233rd of 8,710	14th of 56 in the St. Louis, MO-IL metro area · =435th of 2,882 public courses · =906th of 4,936 courses you can book · =2,185th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 73.5	=78th of 318	=1,989th of 7,615	=12th of 52 in the St. Louis, MO-IL metro area · =424th of 2,412 public courses · =841st of 4,145 courses you can book · =1,973rd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	2,356 yds between tees	22nd of 427	=986th of 11,523	4th of 71 in the St. Louis, MO-IL metro area · =221st of 3,841 public courses · =456th of 6,653 courses you can book · =960th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	482 ft derived	458th of 479	=7,299th of 12,437	57th of 81 in the St. Louis, MO-IL metro area · =2,903rd of 4,289 public courses · =4,710th of 7,274 courses you can book · =5,189th 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 7 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.4 of 7 background details — we don't hold the year it opened, a website and a phone number.

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Sources

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