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Few public golf facilities in the Chicago metropolitan area carry the same civic weight as Cantigny Golf. The course occupies land that was once the country estate of Robert R. McCormick, the powerful Tribune Company publisher whose family donated the entire Cantigny property — mansion, gardens, military museum, and golf grounds — to a public foundation after his death. Playing here, you're walking through one of the genuine philanthropic gestures in American golf: a world-class facility built not for a private membership but for anyone who shows up with a bag and a tee time.
The layout stretches across the rolling, wooded terrain of DuPage County, where mature trees frame virtually every hole and the grounds are maintained to a standard that routinely draws favorable comparisons to courses that cost twice the green fee. Roger Packard and later refinements shaped a course that rewards thoughtful positioning over raw power.
For golfers based in or passing through the western suburbs, Cantigny functions as a benchmark — the kind of well-kept, seriously designed public track that makes you recalibrate your expectations for what accessible golf can be.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champ · men | 7,011 | 74.1 | 142 | 72 |
| Champ/Blue · men | 6,741 | 72.9 | 139 | 72 |
| Blue · men | 6,571 | 72.1 | 137 | 72 |
| Blue/White · men | 6,380 | 71.2 | 135 | 72 |
| White · men | 6,163 | 70.2 | 133 | 72 |
| White · women | 6,163 | 76.6 | 140 | 72 |
| White/Red · men | 5,624 | 67.8 | 127 | 72 |
| White/Red · women | 5,624 | 73.5 | 133 | 72 |
| Red · women | 5,236 | 71.4 | 129 | 72 |
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