Golf courses in Ohio

Cincinnati has 28 courses mapped in Yardage, more than any other city in Ohio, and the Cincinnati Recreation Commission runs six public courses of its own; California, Neumann, Reeves and Woodland are among the mapped ones. Akron follows with 17, Columbus with 16 and Dayton with 13, and the pattern repeats across the state, one city cluster after another.

Ohio’s 717 mapped courses are 4.78% of everything in the catalog, the seventh-largest share of any state. Of those, 572 are eighteen-hole courses and 145 are nines, a 20.2% nine-hole share. Spread over the population, that is 6.02 courses per 100,000 Ohioans, 15th in the country and comfortably above the national 4.38; the Golf Course Census has the full comparison. One course for every 16,598 Ohioans is a lot of tee times within a short drive.

The state parks run courses too, and the ones at Deer Creek, Salt Fork, Punderson, Maumee Bay and Shawnee are mapped, as are Ohio State’s Scarlet and Gray courses in Columbus, Kent State’s course and the Twin Base course at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The season runs from April into November. Lake Erie’s snow belt ends it earlier in the northeast, while the Ohio River towns in the south squeeze out a few more weeks.

With 335 towns in the directory, most Ohio golfers have a course they have never played within an hour; our guide to playing a new golf course covers the first-tee routine. The rest of the country is in the national directory.

Most courses: Cincinnati (28), Akron (17), Columbus (16), Dayton (13), Hartville (9).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates (July 1, 2025) (11,900,510 residents). Counts are courses mapped in Yardage, not an official registry.

Courses by city

Is your course mapped?

Search an Ohio course by name; with 717 in the catalog, the town alone may return several.

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If an Ohio course is not listed, send us the name and town and we will look into mapping it.