South - The Road at Cardinal Creek Golf Club

Cardinal Creek Golf Club's South Course, known as "The Road," is a Roy Albert Anderson design located in Beecher, Illinois, a small community in the far southern reaches of the Chicago metropolitan area. Anderson, a regional architect active primarily in the mid-to-late 20th century, designed courses throughout the Midwest with an emphasis on playability and integration with the natural landscape. The course sits in the flat to gently rolling terrain characteristic of Will County, where agricultural land transitions into residential development.

The routing likely takes advantage of whatever natural drainage corridors and mature tree stands existed on the property, as Anderson typically worked within modest budgets and existing topography rather than undertaking extensive earthmoving. The "Road" designation suggests this is one of multiple courses at the facility, a common arrangement at larger daily-fee or semi-private clubs in the Chicago suburbs that emerged during periods of golf expansion in the 1960s through 1990s.

The course serves the local golfing community in an area where public and accessible golf options have historically been important to the region's recreational infrastructure. Without major tournament history or national recognition, it functions as a neighborhood course where design interest comes from strategic bunkering, green contours, and the challenge of navigating tree-lined fairways typical of parkland layouts in northern Illinois. The facility offers straightforward golf in a region where weather permits a season roughly from April through October.