Golf in North Barrington

North Barrington is a village in Lake County, set in the wooded Barrington area of Chicago's northwest suburbs. Part of the broader Barrington region, it shares that area's emphasis on preserving open space amid its estates, with large lots, abundant tree cover, and water threading through the landscape. The village grew from rural countryside into a prosperous, low-density residential community while resisting dense development. Its leafy, spacious character sets it apart from the busier suburbs nearer the city. Golf is well represented here, with private clubs occupying the wooded, water-laced ground typical of the region, including a course set within a residential development. For golfers, North Barrington offers rounds in one of the more carefully preserved corners of the northwest metro, where open space and trees remain the defining features of the landscape and the pace of development has stayed deliberately slow.