Few courses carry a name with more inherent contradiction than Chicago Highlands — a layout in Westchester, Illinois, a suburb sitting in the flat heart of the Chicago metro, where "highlands" describes an aspiration more than any natural topography. The Chicago area's western suburbs have long supported serious golf, and Westchester sits in a corridor of well-established private and daily-fee courses that have served the region's considerable appetite for the game for generations.
Without a clear record of the architect or founding era, the course itself remains somewhat under the radar, but a par-72 layout in this part of Chicagoland places it in competitive company. The region's golf culture runs deep — this is the land of Medinah, Butler National, and Cog Hill — so any course that has held its ground here over the years has done so against real alternatives and real expectations.
Westchester is an inner-ring suburb, densely settled and practical, which makes a full 18-hole round here a genuine neighborhood amenity rather than a destination trip for most who play it.
