Veterans Memorial Golf Course is an 18-hole military course in Great Lakes, Illinois.

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holes

par

6,637

yards (tips)

125

slope (blue)

The shape of the round · Blue 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: Paul Loague reported
access: military
address: 2821 Great Lakes Drive, IL, 60088
phone: 847-688-4593
website: course site →
elevation: 704 ft derived
turf: Bent Grass greens · Blue fairways
on site: driving range · putting green · pro shop · restaurant · lessons

42.31284, -87.86700 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 16 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

212 traced features across 8 layers for Veterans Memorial 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

6,642yds

Blue tees

557yds

Longest hole

144yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-08-09

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 9 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Blue	M	71contested	72	6637	72.1	125	3279	3363
White	F	71contested	72	6184	75.6	127	3105	3096
White	M	71contested	72	6184	70.0	120	3105	3096
Gold	F	71contested	72	5512	71.9	113	2742	2770
Gold	M	71contested	72	5512	66.9	113	2742	2770
championship	M	66		5186		93
Red	F	71contested	72	5006	69.1	113	2449	2557
middle	M	66		4955		89
forward	M	66		4496		92

Every figure as published except Card par (derived), which is 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 Blue, White, Gold and Red 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.

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	4	5	3	4	3	5	4	5	4	3	4	4	4	3	5	4	72
Blue	415	389	300	557	185	452	144	497	340	478	417	162	393	431	344	183	521	434	6,637
White	392	358	292	529	177	417	135	486	319	450	385	161	365	400	320	145	486	384	6,184
Gold	351	312	269	472	132	340	119	442	305	419	338	134	324	368	313	116	426	332	5,512
Red	323	255	241	434	120	332	103	394	247	388	297	126	293	334	297	94	402	326	5,006
Handicap	5	7	15	3	11	1	17	9	13	2	10	16	14	4	8	18	12	6

No per-hole yardages are published for championship, middle and forward, so they are not on the card above.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Veterans Memorial Golf Course hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 212 traced features, but not a model of every green, which a plan aims at.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

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

Book nearby

Veterans Memorial Golf Course states military access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Va Jo Wa Golf Club (0.2 mi, public) · Lake Bluff Golf Course (1.9 mi, public) · Deerpath Golf Course (4.1 mi, public)

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	6,637 yds	=185th of 452	=4,883rd of 12,025	131st of 279 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · 48th of 108 military courses · =4,851st of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 125	=213th of 368	=5,317th of 8,710	=164th of 245 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =38th of 78 military courses · =5,092nd of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 72.1	=160th of 318	=3,870th of 7,615	=125th of 215 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =28th of 68 military courses · =3,830th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	2,141 yds between tees	38th of 427	=1,627th of 11,523	25th of 267 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =7th of 107 military courses · =1,592nd of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	704 ft derived	=182nd of 479	=5,681st of 12,437	=116th of 291 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · 28th of 108 military courses · =4,017th 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 6 sets 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 the year it opened.

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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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