The Lincoln Highway is a 179-mile stretch of historic road and the first American transcontinental highway. The highway is home to numerous attractions, and more than 30 golf courses dot the legendary highway, providing exceptional golfing opportunities.
Heritage Bluffs is a five-star 166-acre course that is located minutes from the Lincoln Highway near Channahon, Illinois. Challenge the course’s diverse and unique holes, which range from rolling mounds to tree-lined fairways. Appreciate the award-winning and environmentally-minded course. Experience the Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary golf course, and listen to the bird calls while golfing.
Olympia Fields Country Club – host of the 2003 U.S. Open Golf Championship – is located one mile north of the Lincoln Highway along Western Avenue, and is on the National Register of Historical Places. See the course first hand to appreciate the large, English Tudor-style club house and its beautiful, natural landscape. Soak up the historic golf club, founded in 1915, and play the course that has hosted many major USGA and PGA golf tournaments. Olympia Fields is a private club, but does offer reciprocal agreements with many other country clubs across the U.S.
Odyssey Country Club in Tinley Park is an 18-hole, Par 72, Curtis Strange-designed championship course located about two miles north of the Lincoln Highway in Odyssey. At over 7,000 yards, the Odyssey course features bent grass fairways, four sets of tees, water features, and wildflowers. The course offers a challenging game for players at all skill levels.
The Sanctuary Golf Course is a links-style course with rolling mounds down the fairways. The golf course is less than a mile from the Lincoln Highway near New Lenox, Illinois. Golf the course that Daily Southland newspaper readers voted their favorite in 2004. Don’t worry if you get lost on while golfing at the Sanctuary -- all of the golf carts are GPS equipped.
The Lincoln Highway provides unique and plentiful opportunities for entertainment and history, but don’t forget to take advantage of the byway’s bountiful public and well-known golf courses.
