Bow Lake Golf Course

Every green at Bow Lake in Barry, Illinois traced contour by contour, with fall lines, daily pins, and live wind in the GolfCore app.

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The course map of Bow Lake: fairways, tees, greens, bunkers and water traced hole by hole, the same map the app plays a round on.
  • 9Holes
  • 35Par
  • 9Greens mapped
  • 115Contours
  • 9.0%Steepest slope

About Bow Lake

Bow Lake Golf Course is a 9-hole golf course playing to par 35 in Barry, Illinois. Bill Bainter designed it, and it opened in 1993. GolfCore has mapped 9 greens here with contour lines and fall-line arrows. The card below lists its holes with yardages for all 9 holes. GPS yardages and scoring are free in the GolfCore app.

Plan your visit

William R. Croxsville Drive, Barry, IL

Green contour map of Bow Lake in Barry, Illinois: 115 elevation contours at a 3-inch interval with fall-line arrows, traced from 1-meter lidar
One of 9 mapped greens at Bow Lake. Cool colors sit low and warm colors high; white lines are contours at a 3-inch interval, and the arrows point down the fall line.

How the greens break

GolfCore traced 9 greens at Bow Lake from USGS 3DEP 1-meter lidar, with 115 elevation contours at a 3-inch interval. The steepest measured slope is 9.0 percent, and the largest rise across a single green is 4.2 ft.

In the app the same map sits under your ball on every green, with the fall line drawn to the hole and the wind modeled at your position. At clubs that run GolfCore, the pins the shop sets each morning show up there too.

The card

2,887 yds · Par 35

Hole 123456789 Out
Par 443534543 35
Yards 300370145450152405566357142 2,887
Hcp 123456789
Hole Par Yards Hcp
1 4 300 1
2 4 370 2
3 3 145 3
4 5 450 4
5 3 152 5
6 4 405 6
7 5 566 7
8 4 357 8
9 3 142 9
Out 35 2,887

Hole data is what GolfCore holds for the course's layout. Picking a tee shows that tee's own yardages, pars and stroke indexes where the club has rated them. Spot a wrong par, yardage or stroke index? Report it from Map Settings in the app, or send us a correction.

Course details

Location
Barry, Illinois, United States
Address
William R. Croxsville Drive, Barry, IL
Architect
Bill Bainter
Opened
1993
Holes
9
Par
35
Tees on the card
3
Greens mapped
9
Elevation contours
115
Contour interval
3-inch
Largest green elevation span
4.2 ft
Steepest measured slope
9.0%
Course map
Traced hole by hole
Wind modeling
Live wind grid, 16 directions
Tree canopy
1-meter canopy height model
Course data updated
2026-10-03

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Staff at Bow Lake can claim this course by signing in with an email address at the club's own domain, then edit its address, phone, website and crest at no charge. Read how a club keeps its course right. The same system runs a club's tee sheet and caddie yard; read how caddie management on GolfCore works.

GolfCore maps courses from public elevation data and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bow Lake.