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Wilmette Golf Course sits in one of Chicago's most storied North Shore suburbs, a community that has long taken its public recreation seriously. The village of Wilmette borders Lake Michigan just north of Evanston, and the surrounding landscape — flat, tree-lined, and shaped by generations of dense residential development — gives the course a distinctly neighborhood feel. This is golf woven into the fabric of everyday suburban life, the kind of place where regulars walk the same fairways for decades.
As a municipally operated layout, Wilmette serves a broad cross-section of golfers, from beginners finding their footing to scratch players squeezing in a quick round after work. The par 70 configuration suggests a course that trades pure length for playability, rewarding shot-making and course management over raw power. It's an honest, unpretentious track built to be used.
The North Shore corridor has historically supported a rich golf culture, with several well-regarded private clubs in the immediate area. Wilmette GC functions as the accessible counterweight to that tradition — a public option that keeps the game open to the whole community rather than just its most exclusive corners.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black · men | 6,363 | 70.8 | 128 | 70 |
| Gold · men | 6,032 | 69.2 | 124 | 70 |
| Gold · women | 6,032 | 75 | 135 | 70 |
| Orange · men | 5,686 | 67.7 | 120 | 70 |
| Orange · women | 5,686 | 73.1 | 131 | 70 |
| Green · men | 4,899 | 64 | 112 | 70 |
| Green · women | 4,899 | 68.6 | 121 | 70 |
| White · women | 4,668 | 67.5 | 118 | 70 |
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