Golf in Lake Forest

Lake Forest is among the most established and affluent suburbs on Chicago's North Shore, a Lake County city set above Lake Michigan north of the city. Laid out in the nineteenth century with curving lanes and carefully planned estates, it became a model of the picturesque suburb, its streets shaded by mature trees and its open parkland preserved by design. The city's tradition of careful planning and its standing among the region's wealthiest communities have made it home to a remarkable concentration of golf. Several of the area's most storied private clubs sit within its bounds, alongside a city-owned course that offers recreational golf to residents. The grounds here range from open prairie-style layouts that have hosted professional competition to wooded parkland tracts. For golfers, Lake Forest represents one of the densest and most distinguished collections of courses anywhere in the metro.