Harborside International Golf Center - Starboard
Harborside International Golf Center consists of two eighteen hole courses as well as The John Jacobs Golf Academy. The courses are The Port Course (opened in 1995) and The Starboard Course (opened in 1996). Both courses were designed by Richard P. Nugent.
Harborside International Golf Center started as a fourteen-year-old landfill that was "capped" with two feet of solid clay. Add two public courses to the 450-acre space, a clubhouse, a golf academy, a first-class practice facility, and the Chicago skyline and you end up with top rate golf. Both courses are links-style. There is water that comes into play and many very deep sand bunkers in keeping with the links tradition. Nine hole rates are available after 4 PM.
Stats on the two courses are almost idetical, yet most locals will say the Starboard course is the better of the two.
The Port course at the Harborside International Golf Center plays to a par-72 and 7,164 yards from the championship tees. The course rating is 75.1 and the slope rating is 136. The signature hole is #15 on the Port Course, a 216-yard, par 3, which is in the shape of an anchor.
TheStarboard course at the Harborside International Golf Center plays to a par-72 and 7,166 yards from the championship tees. The course rating is 75.2 and the slope rating is 137. The Starboard has two par 3 holes in which you hit over water.