El Niguel Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Laguna Niguel, California.

It plays 7,060 yards from the Black tees, rated 74.5/136 (checked 2026-08-14).

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holes

par

7,060

yards (tips)

136

slope (black)

The shape of the round · Blue 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

access: private
address: 23700 Club House Dr, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677, USA
phone: 949-496-5767
website: course site →
elevation: 340 ft derived
opened: 1963

33.51153, -117.71601 — 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.

117 features across 6 layers for El Niguel Country Club, 1 traced and 116 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2022 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

6,735yds

Blue tees

531yds

Longest hole

153yds

Shortest hole

1 imported from OpenStreetMap and 116 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-04-25

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 11 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Black	M	72	7060	74.5	136
Blue	M	72	6738	73.0	132	3340	3395
White	M	72	6441	71.8	129
White	F	72	6441	78.7	143
Gold	M	72	6104	70.1	124	2993	3092
Gold	F	72	6104	76.9	139	2993	3092
Silver	F	72	5739	74.9	134
Silver	M	72	5739	68.2	119
Red	F	72	5412	72.8	130
Green	F	72	5020	70.5	126	2442	2561
Green	M	72	5020	64.2	111	2442	2561

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

Scorecard

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	5	4	4	3	5	4	3	4	4	4	5	4	3	4	5	3	4	72
Blue	374	517	379	405	176	489	400	168	432	421	387	531	383	153	429	495	195	401	6,738
Gold	356	447	354	369	163	452	337	135	380	392	371	458	362	118	381	479	154	377	6,104
Green	255	405	286	314	105	381	290	77	329	354	302	395	301	113	308	387	114	287	5,020
Handicap	13	9	7	3	17	15	1	11	5	2	10	12	8	16	4	18	14	6

No per-hole yardages are published for 4 tee sets, so they are not on the card above.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan El Niguel Country Club hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 117 of its features, 1 traced and 116 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

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Book nearby

El Niguel Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: The Ranch at Laguna Beach (1.8 mi, resort) · Monarch Beach Golf Links (2.0 mi, resort) · Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club (3.7 mi, public) · San Juan Hills Golf Club (3.8 mi, public)

Measured against comparable courses

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

Figure	This course	In California	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	7,060 yds	=103rd of 889	=1,380th of 12,025	12th of 158 in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area · =503rd of 2,954 private courses · =1,376th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 136	=151st of 750	=1,956th of 8,710	=17th of 134 in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area · =871st of 2,300 private courses · =1,911th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 74.5	=84th of 685	=930th of 7,615	=11th of 119 in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area · =401st of 2,143 private courses · =923rd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	2,040 yds between tees	151st of 857	=2,056th of 11,523	26th of 145 in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area · =639th of 2,885 private courses · =2,015th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1963	=283rd of 768	=3,357th of 9,368	=74th of 145 in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area · =1,184th of 2,418 private courses · =2,392nd of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	340 ft derived	435th of 917	=8,122nd of 12,437	91st of 169 in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area · =1,758th of 3,026 private courses · =5,805th 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 11 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.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect and the grass on the greens.

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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 2026-08-14. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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