Evergreen Golf Club

Evergreen Golf Club in Elkhorn, Illinois offers two nines—the East and South courses—that combine to form one of the facility's 18-hole routing options. The course was designed by Ken Killian and Dick Nugent, a prolific Midwestern design partnership active from the 1960s through the 1990s. Killian and Nugent are known for creating accessible, strategic layouts across Illinois and neighboring states, often working with rolling terrain and incorporating water features and mature tree corridors into their designs. The Elkhorn area sits in the northern Illinois landscape where glacial topography provides gentle to moderate elevation changes. Courses in this region typically feature parkland characteristics with hardwood stands, occasional wetlands, and open meadow areas. The East and South nines likely reflect this regional character, offering a mix of tree-lined fairways and more open holes where wind and approach angles become factors. Evergreen Golf Club serves as a semi-private facility, providing both member and public access. The club maintains a traditional Midwestern golf culture focused on playability for a range of skill levels while preserving strategic interest through green complexes and hazard placement. The combination of the East and South nines creates variety in hole sequencing and presents golfers with different challenges depending on which 18-hole pairing they play during their visit.