Golf courses mapped in Yardage, by state

Yardage measures to the center of the green, which means a course only works in the app once we have mapped every green on it. This is the list. Type your course below; if it comes up, the app already knows the greens.

The search is forgiving. “Hillcrest CC” finds Hillcrest Country Club, “gc” expands to golf club, and the town works when the name does not. If a course really is missing, the form under the empty result goes straight to the person who maps them.

Browse by state

Each tile is a state; the shade is how many courses we have mapped there. States with a published directory page are links. The rest are coming, a few states a week, so the pages arrive with real text instead of all at once.

Census highlights

Every course in the catalog has a mapped green center for every hole, which makes it a decent dataset for a question nobody publishes an open answer to: where are America’s golf courses? A few numbers from The Golf Course Census, our full write-up with charts, tables and a downloadable spreadsheet:

• Florida has the most mapped courses, 1,036, and California is ten behind. Michigan, New York and Texas round out the top five, and together those five states hold three courses in ten.
• Per resident the map flips. Iowa leads with 11.1 courses per 100,000 people, then North Dakota, Vermont, Nebraska and South Dakota. Texas and California, for all their courses, sit 49th and 48th.
• About one course in four is a nine-holer. In North Dakota it is seven in ten. Population figures are the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimates.
• The Midwest has 31 percent of the courses and 20 percent of the people.

There is more where that came from, including the most common words in course names (Hills, then Creek) and the towns with the most courses (Naples, Florida, with 56). Read the census, or start with the states with the most golf courses.

How the catalog is built, and corrected

The number at the top of this page, 14,987, is the count of courses bundled in the current build of the Yardage app. It is not a count of every golf course in the country, and we do not pretend otherwise. A course gets in when every hole has a mapped green center. The catalog carries a revision hash so anyone can tell which version a number came from; the current one starts 7f39c7f6.

Greens move. Clubs rebuild a green, shift it thirty yards, or turn a par 4 into a par 5. From the round screen the app has a "Green looks wrong?" button, and every report goes to a person who checks it before anything changes. Nobody else's report changes your map until we have checked it. The guide on how courses get mapped for GPS walks through the whole process, including why the center of the green is the reference and not the flag.

The app works without cell service once the course is loaded, because the map ships inside the app and GPS needs no data connection. Under open sky a phone's GPS is typically accurate to within about 5 meters, roughly 16 feet, according to GPS.gov; near trees and buildings it is worse. We show whole yards and we do not claim more than the phone can give.

Course not listed?

Tell us the course and the town. We check every request and reply by email, usually within a couple of weeks. If you work at the course, say so; it helps.

Run a course? Once it is mapped there is a badge you can put on your website that tells golfers the greens are in the app.