Cotton Creek at the Craft Farms Resort is an 18-hole semi-private golf course in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

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holes

par

7,127

yards (tips)

133

slope (gold)

The shape of the round · Gold teespublished figures only

The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer: Arnold Palmer reported
access: semi-private
address: 3840 Cotton Creek Cir, Gulf Shores, AL 36542, USA
phone: 325-910-5146
website: course site →
elevation: 28 ft derived
opened: 1987
on site: pro shop · restaurant · lessons

30.30488, -87.66689 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes, their lines predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery and numbered against the scorecard. Its greens, fairways, bunkers and water are predicted the same way. The course outline is predicted too, drawn around the predicted holes and wide of the mown ground, so the real property line may sit wider or tighter.

98 features across 6 layers for Cotton Creek at the Craft Farms Resort, all 98 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes and outlines predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

Holes · predicted

Fairways · predicted

Bunkers · predicted

Water · predicted

Greens · predicted

7,127yds

Gold tees

571yds

Longest hole

184yds

Shortest hole

All 98 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-06-10

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 5 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Gold	M	72	7127		73.3	133	3556	3571
Blue	M	72	6617		71.4	124	3314	3303
White	M	72	6080		69.1	117	3049	3031
Silver	M	72	5438		67.0	112	2797	2641
Red	M	72	5160contested	3910	70.0	118	1979	1931

Every figure as published except Card yards (derived), which is summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

The Red tees publish a yardage total the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Yards column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own yardage row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	4	5	3	4	4	5	3	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	72
Gold	392	409	571	184	452	395	517	195	441	536	397	372	204	435	451	207	535	434	7,127
Blue	378	369	551	171	416	382	482	151	414	501	372	346	159	407	412	202	499	405	6,617
White	338	360	509	159	367	347	453	130	386	469	344	330	143	388	354	155	478	370	6,080
Silver	295	350	465	140	331	330	440	110	336	420	320	285	116	325	310	112	438	315	5,438
Red	194	247	331	132	230	210	288	103	244	334	245	155	112	243	207	112	293	230	5,160
Handicap	13	5	3	15	9	1	7	17	11	10	4	12	16	6	14	18	2	8

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Cotton Creek at the Craft Farms Resort hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 98 of its features, all 98 predicted by a model, but not a model of every green, which a plan aims at.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

The approach, planned Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

See the courses it plans Open the Studio

Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Cotton Creek at the Craft Farms Resort's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Kraftsmens Club (0.0 mi) · Orange Beach Golf Center (3.6 mi) · Lost Key Golf Club (13 mi) · Perdido Bay Golf Club (15 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

Figure	This course	In Alabama	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	7,127 yds	7th of 37	=942nd of 12,025	3rd of 12 in the Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope, AL combined area · 88th of 2,030 semi-private courses · =396th of 7,004 courses you can book · =940th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 133	6th of 19	=2,813th of 8,710	=348th of 1,395 semi-private courses · =1,174th of 4,936 courses you can book · =2,750th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 73.3	6th of 14	=2,254th of 7,615	=270th of 1,141 semi-private courses · =959th of 4,145 courses you can book · =2,235th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,967 yds between tees	7th of 35	=2,439th of 11,523	=362nd of 1,970 semi-private courses · =1,175th of 6,653 courses you can book · =2,394th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1987	8th of 21	=5,903rd of 9,368	=972nd of 1,516 semi-private courses · =3,219th of 5,526 courses you can book · =4,203rd of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	28 ft derived	=35th of 37	=11,079th of 12,437	=10th of 12 in the Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope, AL combined area · =1,860th of 2,089 semi-private courses · =6,699th of 7,274 courses you can book · =8,025th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 5 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 5 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 holes and their greens are drawn, predicted by a model from aerial imagery and shown over it.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole's line of play is predicted from aerial imagery, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along that predicted line.
Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
Course details, partly built.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the grass on the greens.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. Know something we don't? Help us fill it in — a link to where it's published is worth more than anything else you could send.

Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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