Golf in Northfield

Northfield is a village in Cook County, an affluent suburb set in the North Shore stretch of the county between Chicago and the Lake Michigan shore. Largely residential, it grew into a prosperous, leafy community of established neighborhoods, its streets shaded by mature trees. The village has the green, low-density character typical of the inner North Shore suburbs, where wooded residential ground predominates. Northfield's location places it within easy reach of both the city and the lakefront communities to the east. Golf here is set at a private country club occupying the leafy, gently worked ground that defines the area. For golfers, Northfield offers a members' course in one of the affluent inner suburbs of the North Shore, set amid the wooded residential landscape that has long characterized this prosperous stretch of Cook County north of the city.