Kankakee Elks Golf Club

Overview: Kankakee Elks Golf Club is an 18-hole William Langford and Theodore Moreau design in St. Anne, Illinois. The current course record lists par 72 and 6,329 yards, with tree-lined corridors, traditional strategic width and the shaped green complexes associated with the Langford and Moreau partnership. The layout sits south of Chicago near the Kankakee River and has the feel of an inland classic rather than a resort course. Its interest is concentrated in the relationship between the fairway line and the approach, especially where a short hole or angled green invites a player to choose between the obvious route and the more rewarding one.

History: Kankakee Elks is consistently identified with Langford and Moreau. The Langford & Moreau Society’s current course register and its 2026 recovery appeal both identify the St. Anne course as a 1927 opening, while older independent course research describes a 1936 opening. The 1927 date is now used because it is the current heritage society’s specific opening record; the conflicting 1936 reference is retained in the notes rather than erased. What is stable is the course identity: an 18-hole Langford and Moreau layout with classic green complexes and a long connection to the Kankakee-area Elks lodge.

Did You Know? Kankakee Elks is listed by the Langford & Moreau Society as one of the partnership’s Illinois courses. The architects are especially known for bold green contours and strategic bunkering, and those ideas remain the clearest architectural signature of this course.