Emerald Hill drawn from GolfCore's traced course vectors — fairways, tees, greens, bunkers and water, in the app's own colors. This is the same geometry the app maps a round on.

14Greens Mapped 161Elevation Contours 11.1%Steepest Slope 18Holes 71Par 8Rated Tees

Green contour map of Emerald Hill in Sterling, Illinois — 161 elevation contours at a 3-inch interval with fall-line arrows, traced from 1-meter lidar — One of 14 mapped greens at Emerald Hill, drawn from GolfCore's contour data baked from USGS 3DEP 1-meter lidar, in the same colors the app uses. Elevation bands run cool-low to warm-high; white lines are contours at a 3-inch interval, and dark arrows point down the fall line.

The course, by the numbers

Location	Sterling, Illinois, United States
Address	Sterling, IL
Phone	(815) 622-6204
Website	emeraldhillgolf.com
Holes	18
Par	71
Tees on the card	8, 8 USGA-rated
Greens mapped	14
Elevation contours	161
Contour interval	3-inch
Largest green elevation span	8.1 ft
Steepest measured slope	11.1%
Course map	Traced hole by hole
Wind modeling	Live wind grid, 16 directions
Tree canopy	1-meter canopy height model
Course data updated	2026-08-27

The card

Tees

5,996 yds · Par 72 · Rating 69.2 · Slope 121

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out
Par	4	3	4	3	4	4	5	4	4	35
Yards	352	155	327	163	325	322	484	431	400	2,959

Hole	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In
Par	4	3	4	4	4	3	4	5	5	36
Yards	372	159	262	389	384	180	337	495	463	3,041

Total71 Yards6,000

Hole	Par	Yards
1	4	352
2	3	155
3	4	327
4	3	163
5	4	325
6	4	322
7	5	484
8	4	431
9	4	400
Out	35	2,959
10	4	372
11	3	159
12	4	262
13	4	389
14	4	384
15	3	180
16	4	337
17	5	495
18	5	463
In	36	3,041
Total	71	6,000

Course rating and slope

Tee	Yards	Par	Rating / Slope
Blue	6,321	72	70.7 / 125 76.2 / 134 (W)
White	5,996	72	69.2 / 121 74.4 / 130 (W)
Gold	5,404	72	66.5 / 115 71.1 / 123 (W)
Green	4,987	72	64.6 / 110 68.8 / 118 (W)

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. Clubs correct their own data in the app.

What GolfCore has for Emerald Hill

GolfCore's library covers Emerald Hill green by green: 14 putting surfaces traced with 161 elevation contours from USGS 3DEP 1-meter lidar. The steepest measured slope on these greens tilts at 11.1 percent — the difference between a putt that dies at the hole and one that runs four feet past.

In the app, players and caddies read the same data live on the course: contour bands with fall-line arrows, wind simulated at the player's position, and pin positions that clubs on GolfCore set each morning. Emerald Hill is one of more than six thousand courses GolfCore has mapped green by green.

For clubs, the same system runs the tee sheet and the caddie yard — assignments off real tee times, SMS confirmations, and a caddie network that spans every club on the platform. Read how caddie management on GolfCore works.

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Staff at Emerald Hill can claim this course by signing in with an email address at the club's own domain. That sets the club up on GolfCore with you as an administrator.

GolfCore maps courses from public elevation data and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Emerald Hill. Represent this club? Request changes or removal through our contact page.