The highest course in the Springfield, IL metro area is Piper Glen Golf Course, at 1,274 feet above sea level — ahead of Panther Creek Country Club at 622 feet above sea level and Edgewood Golf Club at 621 feet above sea level.
All 12 courses in the area with a coordinate we could sample are ranked below.
Springfield, 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 | Piper Glen Golf Course | 1,274 ft |
| 2 | Panther Creek Country Club | 622 ft |
| 3 | Edgewood Golf Club | 621 ft |
| 4 | Brookhills Golf Club | 609 ft |
| 5 | Shambolee Golf Course | 603 ft |
| 6 | Bunn Golf Course | 600 ft |
| 7 | Illini Golf Course | 596 ft |
| 8 | Bergen Golf Course | 589 ft |
| 9 | Long Bridge Golf Course | 584 ft |
| 10 | Lincoln Greens Golf Course | 579 ft |
| 11 | The Rail Golf Course | 570 ft |
| 12 | Pasfield Golf Course | 561 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.