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Forest Park Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in Valparaiso, Indiana.

Designed by Robert Foulis, Hale Irwin, Stan Gentry. It plays 5,843 yards from the Blue tees, rated 68.5/118 (checked 2026-08-21).

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18
holes
70
par
5,843
yards (tips)
118
slope (blue)
The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLUE TEES390475376178340466329198392197223342380345470295127320142534435465748394103113124134144155164173184PAROUT 3,144 YDSIN 2,699 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
Robert Foulis, Hale Irwin, Stan Gentry reported
access
public
address
1155 Sheffield Drive, Valparaiso, IN, 46385
phone
219-531-7888
elevation
815 ft derived
opened
1956
turf
L-93 Bentgrass greens · Zoysia Grass fairways
on site
driving range · putting green · lessons

41.48625, -87.07365 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows 2 of 18 holes. OpenStreetMap has not traced holes 3–18. 3 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one. The map below draws everything that has been traced.

55 traced features across 8 layers for Forest Park Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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55 traced features across 8 layers for Forest Park Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

2
Holes
12
Fairways
16
Bunkers
1
Water
2
Greens
17
Tee pads
865yds
Blue tees
475yds
Longest hole
390yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-06-16

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-21

All 7 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 7 rows.

Blue70584368.511831442699
White70564267.611730332609
Red70516869.911828502318
Black/ChampionsM353140
Yellow/TournamentM352800
Blue/GentryM352467
White/ForwardF352123

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

Scorecardreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-21

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 454345434334445434 70
Blue 390475376178340466329198392197223342380345470295127320 5,843
White 375465366168325456318183377188213336370334461280116311 5,642
Red 360454287157310445307168362158203320337322355218104301 5,168

We don't hold a stroke index for this course's holes, so that row is not above. The yardages are every figure we hold hole by hole.

No per-hole yardages are published for 4 tee sets, so they are not on the card above.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Forest Park Golf Course hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 55 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 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

See the courses it plans Open 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 Forest Park Golf Course'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: Creekside Golf Course (1.3 mi) · Robbinhurst Golf Club (6.2 mi) · The Brassie Golf Club (7.6 mi) · Turkey Creek Golf Course (14 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

FigureThis courseIn IndianaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest5,843 yds194th of 255=8,681st of 12,025218th of 279 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · 2,584th of 4,105 public courses · =4,654th of 7,004 courses you can book · =8,602nd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread3,720 yds between tees4th of 23797th of 11,5234th of 267 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · 31st of 3,841 public courses · 54th of 6,653 courses you can book · 95th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1956=66th of 209=2,585th of 9,368=79th of 178 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =589th of 3,277 public courses · =1,153rd of 5,526 courses you can book · =1,854th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level815 ft derived 87th of 260=4,846th of 12,43733rd of 291 in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area · =1,889th of 4,289 public courses · =3,149th of 7,274 courses you can book · =3,408th 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 progress3 of 6 built

3 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 3 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 3 sets of tees.
  • Course map, partly built.2 of the 18 greens are drawn — the rest of the course isn't mapped yet.
  • Per-hole distances, partly built.2 of the 18 holes are traced — the others have no measured distances yet.
  • 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 2026-08-21. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Nearby courses

Creekside Golf Course

1.3 mi · Valparaiso · public · 9 holes

Valparaiso Country Club

2.5 mi · Valparaiso · private · 18 holes

Robbinhurst Golf Club

6.2 mi · Chesterton · public · 18 holes

The Brassie Golf Club

7.6 mi · Chesterton · public · 18 holes

Sand Creek Country Club

8.3 mi · Chesterton · private · 18 holes

Summertree Golf Club

13 mi · Crown Point · 19 holes

Turkey Creek Golf Course

14 mi · Merrillville · semi-private · 18 holes

Innsbrook Country Club

15 mi · Merrillville · 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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