
North/Center Course
Cardinal Creek Golf Club
About this course
Cardinal Creek Golf Club's North/Center combination in Beecher, Illinois, represents the work of Roy Albert Anderson, a regional architect active in the Midwest during the mid-twentieth century. The course sits in the agricultural flatlands south of Chicago, an area characterized by modest elevation changes and open prairie landscape. Anderson's designs from this era typically worked within the natural terrain, incorporating drainage corridors and existing tree lines into strategic routing. The layout reflects the practical design sensibilities common to daily-fee and semi-private facilities developed in the postwar period. Golfers encounter a mix of straightforward holes and those requiring careful club selection around water features and bunker complexes. The property's name suggests a creek runs through the routing, likely serving as both a hazard and a defining landscape element across multiple holes. Beecher lies in Will County, part of the Chicago metropolitan area's southern reaches, where golf development expanded significantly from the 1960s onward to serve growing suburban populations. Courses in this region tend to offer accessible golf in a rural setting, with mature tree growth now framing many holes that were more open at establishment. The North/Center combination would typically represent eighteen holes drawn from a larger multi-course facility or a specific routing configuration among the available holes at Cardinal Creek.
Quick facts
- Location
- Beecher, IL, USA
- Access
- Public
- Year built
- 1971
- Designer
- Roy Albert Anderson
- Holes
- 18
- Par
- 72
- Length
- 6,238 yards
- Difficulty
- 70.4/128
Getting there
Cardinal Creek Golf Club lies just forty minutes south of Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) and thirty minutes from Midway (MDW), making it one of the most accessible championship layouts in the greater Chicagoland region. The drive south from either airport follows Interstate 57 through the gradual transition from urban sprawl to open prairie, where the landscape flattens and farmland begins to reclaim the horizon. Exit onto rural roads near Beecher, and the final approach reveals the club's rolling terrain rising unexpectedly from the surrounding Illinois plains - a quiet, pastoral arrival that belies the serious golf waiting beyond the clubhouse doors.

FAQ
Common questions about North/Center at Cardinal Creek Golf Club
Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.
North/Center was designed by Roy Albert Anderson.
Yes. North/Center at Cardinal Creek Golf Club is listed as welcoming public or guest play on Course Vaults.
Par at North/Center is 72.
North/Center plays 6,238 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.
The slope rating at North/Center is 128.
North/Center is a 18-hole course.






