The highest course in the Rockford, IL metro area is Beaver Creek Golf Course, at 909 feet above sea level — ahead of Aldeen Golf Club at 866 feet above sea level and Swanhills at 857 feet above sea level.
All 12 courses in the area with a coordinate we could sample are ranked below.
Rockford, IL is a metro 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 | 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 | Sandy Hollow Golf Course | 803 ft |
| 8 | Sinnissippi Golf Course | 802 ft |
| 9 | The Ledges | 792 ft |
| 10 | Macktown Golf Course | 777 ft |
| 11 | Atwood Homestead | 733 ft |
| 12 | 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.