The highest course in the Ottawa, IL area is Mendota Golf Club, at 812 feet above sea level — ahead of Hidden Lake Country Club at 698 feet above sea level and Indian Hills Golf Club at 655 feet above sea level.
All 12 courses in the area with a coordinate we could sample are ranked below.
Ottawa, IL is a micropolitan area as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates it — the boundary is theirs, not ours. Each list counts only the courses in the area that publish that figure, so the totals differ between them. Slope and course rating measure difficulty, not quality — nothing here ranks how good a course is.
Highest above sea level
— all 12 courses with a coordinate we could sample
| # | Course | Highest above sea level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mendota Golf Club | 812 ft |
| 2 | Hidden Lake Country Club | 698 ft |
| 3 | Indian Hills Golf Club | 655 ft |
| 4 | Edgewood Park Golf Club | 650 ft |
| 5 | Deer Park Country Club | 633 ft |
| 6 | Anderson Fields Golf Course | 632 ft |
| 7 | Spring Creek Golf Club | 621 ft |
| 8 | The Eastwood Golf Course & Restaurant | 613 ft |
| 9 | Dayton Ridge Golf Club | 605 ft |
| 10 | Senica's Oak Ridge Golf Club | 577 ft |
| 11 | Pine Hills Golf Club | 546 ft |
| 12 | Bourne Golf Club | 532 ft |
Height above sea level at the course’s own published coordinate, sampled from the USGS 3DEP elevation model. THIS IS A FIGURE WE DERIVED, not one the course publishes — anybody can re-query the same public dataset at the same coordinate and get the same number, but no scorecard states it. Because every course carries a coordinate, this is the only board here whose field is nearly the whole database rather than the courses that publish a particular figure. Elevation changes how far a ball carries; it says nothing about whether a course is good.