Golf in Great Lakes

Great Lakes is home to Naval Station Great Lakes, the Navy's only boot camp and its primary training installation, occupying a substantial stretch of western Lake County's Lake Michigan shoreline. Effectively a self-contained community, the station supports the recruits, instructors, and families who live and work on base. For golfers, Veterans Memorial Golf Course sits within that setting, serving active-duty personnel, veterans, and military families with a course of their own. Golf has a long tradition on American military installations, offering service members an accessible, affordable amenity close to where they are stationed, and the course here continues that pattern. The lakeside location along Lake Michigan gives the installation a distinctive backdrop within Lake County. For those connected to the base, Great Lakes provides a convenient place to play without leaving the installation, rooted in the enduring link between military life and recreational golf across the country.