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The General is an 18-hole resort golf course in Guilford Township, Illinois.

Designed by Andy North, Roger Packard. It plays 6,726 yards from the Black tees, rated 72.8/141 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
6,726
yards (tips)
141
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Gold teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — GOLD TEES361152466423341168380360500378528143354396479120306390142335445463748495104115123134144155163174184PAROUT 3,151 YDSIN 3,094 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
Andy North, Roger Packard reported
access
resort
address
Linden Court, Guilford Township, IL
elevation
985 ft derived
opened
1997
turf
Pennlinks Bent Grass greens · Pennlinks Bent Grass fairways
on site
driving range · putting green · lessons

42.37647, -90.32774 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 10 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

213 traced features across 8 layers for The General, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery.

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

213 traced features across 8 layers for The General, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
18
Fairways
24
Bunkers
3
Water
18
Greens
78
Tee pads
6,245yds
Gold tees
528yds
Longest hole
120yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-08-02

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 6 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 6 rows.

BlackM72672672.8141
GoldM72628070.713631513094
WhiteF72591774.4131
WhiteM72591769.1132
JadeM72524066.0125
JadeF72524070.7123

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 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 435443445453445344 72
Gold 361152466423341168380360500378528143354396479120306390 6,280
Handicap 618142161012489717131511153

No per-hole yardages are published for Black, White and Jade, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan The General 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 a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to The General'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: North Course (1.5 mi) · East Course (2.0 mi) · Bellevue Golf Club (7.2 mi) · Galena Golf Club (7.8 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
Longest6,726 yds=155th of 452=4,109th of 12,025307th of 601 resort courses · =1,954th of 7,004 courses you can book · =4,082nd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 141=29th of 368=777th of 8,710=68th of 477 resort courses · =286th of 4,936 courses you can book · =760th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 72.8=119th of 318=2,937th of 7,615=224th of 446 resort courses · =1,275th of 4,145 courses you can book · =2,912th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,486 yds between tees172nd of 427=5,501st of 11,523412th of 593 resort courses · =2,899th of 6,653 courses you can book · =5,420th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1997=220th of 272=7,397th of 9,368=383rd of 516 resort courses · =4,233rd of 5,526 courses you can book · =5,419th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level985 ft derived 2nd of 479=3,504th of 12,437262nd of 616 resort courses · =2,277th of 7,274 courses you can book · =2,411th 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 1 set of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 6 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.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold 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 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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Nearby courses

South Course

1.0 mi · Guilford Township · private · 18 holes

North Course

1.5 mi · Guilford Township · resort · 18 holes

East Course

2.0 mi · Guilford Township · public · 9 holes

Bellevue Golf Club

7.2 mi · semi-private · 9 holes

Galena Golf Club

7.8 mi · Galena · semi-private · 18 holes

Apple Canyon Lake Golf Course

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Woodbine Bend Golf Course

9.5 mi · Stockton · public · 18 holes

Palisades Golf Course

16 mi · Savanna · public · 9 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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