The longest course in the Rockford-Freeport-Rochelle, IL combined area is Aldeen Golf Club, at 7,131 yards — ahead of Valley Lo Club at 6,880 yards and The Ledges at 6,740 yards.
All 14 courses in the area with a published scorecard are ranked below, along with 3 more lists: widest tee spread, oldest, highest above sea level.
Rockford-Freeport-Rochelle, IL is a combined statistical 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.
Longest
— all 14 courses with a published scorecard
| # | Course | Longest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aldeen Golf Club | 7,131 yds |
| 2 | Valley Lo Club | 6,880 yds |
| 3 | The Ledges | 6,740 yds |
| 4 | Prairie View Golf Course | 6,705 yds |
| 5 | Park Hills Golf Course | 6,627 yds |
| 6 | Silver Ridge | 6,571 yds |
| 7 | Swanhills | 6,412 yds |
| 8 | Mauh-Nah-Tee-See Country Club | 6,404 yds |
| 9 | Ingersoll Golf Course | 6,256 yds |
| 10 | Macktown Golf Course | 5,756 yds |
| 11 | Sinnissippi Golf Course | 3,230 yds |
| 12 | Beaver Creek Golf Course | 3,033 yds |
| 13 | Oregon Country Club | 2,970 yds |
| 14 | Red Barn Golf Course | 1,961 yds |
The longest tee set the course publishes, in yards from the tips. Compared against every course that publishes a scorecard — length is a measurement, not a verdict on the golf.
Widest tee spread
— all 13 courses with two or more tee sets of different lengths
| # | Course | Widest tee spread |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ingersoll Golf Course | 2,326 yds between tees |
| 2 | Valley Lo Club | 2,182 yds between tees |
| 3 | Aldeen Golf Club | 2,056 yds between tees |
| 4 | Sinnissippi Golf Course | 1,730 yds between tees |
| 5 | Prairie View Golf Course | 1,685 yds between tees |
| 6 | Silver Ridge | 1,583 yds between tees |
| 7 | Park Hills Golf Course | 1,471 yds between tees |
| 8 | Swanhills | 1,309 yds between tees |
| 9 | Mauh-Nah-Tee-See Country Club | 831 yds between tees |
| 10 | Beaver Creek Golf Course | 662 yds between tees |
| 11 | Oregon Country Club | 564 yds between tees |
| 12 | Red Barn Golf Course | 491 yds between tees |
| 13 | Macktown Golf Course | 467 yds between tees |
Yards between the longest and shortest published tee sets — how far the course moves to fit a different player. Courses publishing a single tee set are not in the running, because one set is an unmeasured spread rather than a narrow one.
Oldest
— all 13 courses with an opening year
| # | Course | Oldest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sinnissippi Golf Course | opened 1912 |
| 2 | Ingersoll Golf Course | opened 1922 |
| 3 | Sandy Hollow Golf Course | opened 1929 |
| 4 | Oregon Country Club | opened 1932 |
| 5 | Park Hills Golf Course | opened 1964 |
| 6 | Silver Ridge | opened 1974 |
| 7 | Red Barn Golf Course | opened 1978 |
| 8 | The Ledges | opened 1990 |
| 9 | Aldeen Golf Club | opened 1992 |
| 10 | Swanhills | opened 1995 |
| 11 | Beaver Creek Golf Course | opened 1997 |
| 12 | Atwood Homestead | opened 1998 |
| 12 | Prairie View Golf Course | opened 1998 |
The year the course opened, as published. Ranked oldest first. An opening year is not a design credit and not a renovation date — a course that opened in 1921 and was rebuilt in 1998 still opened in 1921.
Highest above sea level
— all 17 courses with a coordinate we could sample
| # | Course | Highest above sea level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beaver Creek Golf Course | 909 ft |
| 2 | Aldeen Golf Club | 866 ft |
| 3 | Swanhills | 857 ft |
| 4 | Mauh-Nah-Tee-See Country Club | 840 ft |
| 5 | Red Barn Golf Course | 835 ft |
| 6 | Ingersoll Golf Course | 826 ft |
| 7 | Park Hills Golf Course | 818 ft |
| 8 | Sandy Hollow Golf Course | 803 ft |
| 9 | Sinnissippi Golf Course | 802 ft |
| 10 | The Ledges | 792 ft |
| 11 | Macktown Golf Course | 777 ft |
| 12 | Valley Lo Club | 771 ft |
| 13 | Silver Ridge | 750 ft |
| 14 | Atwood Homestead | 733 ft |
| 15 | Oregon Country Club | 727 ft |
| 16 | Prairie View Golf Course | 724 ft |
| 17 | Rockford Country Club | 706 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.