golf_bhoy 1 course I play is in a county Forest Preserve, complete with gun range for the co. sheriff dept., and it is also just 1/4 mi. south of the int'l airport. Another has a 'estate compound' 1/2 encircling the course, where the owner has a skeet shooting range, and they shoot those shotguns almost every day; the echoes throught the woods are quite loud of course. A couple others are built right along very busy 4 lane streets. Can think of only 1 in the area that is really off the beaten path, but it is now closed for good, yet, had a highway running past it also. Life is noise. Get used to it PGA.