Links at Riverlakes Ranch is an 18-hole public golf course in Bakersfield, California.

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holes

par

6,781

yards (tips)

130

slope (tournament)

The shape of the round · Tournament 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: Dale & Ramsey reported
access: public
address: 5201 Riverlakes Dr, Bakersfield, CA 93312, USA
phone: 661-587-5465
website: course site →
elevation: 402 ft derived
opened: 1999
on site: driving range · pro shop · restaurant · lessons

35.40568, -119.10250 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 2 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

229 traced features across 8 layers for Links at Riverlakes Ranch, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,781yds

Tournament tees

573yds

Longest hole

163yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-06-07

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

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


Tournament	M	72	6781		72.9	130	3283	3498
Back	M	72	6366		70.8	125	3110	3256
Middle	M	72	5857		68.3	119	2880	2977
Gold	M	72	5341contested	5404	65.7	113	2678	2726
Forward	M	72	5336		69.3	123

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 Gold 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

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	4	3	5	3	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	3	4	3	4	4	5	72
Tournament	342	364	183	566	163	432	345	378	510	573	491	415	216	377	168	331	405	522	6,781
Back	325	347	155	545	139	414	330	359	496	543	461	396	184	328	158	310	385	491	6,366
Middle	311	328	130	503	120	361	297	351	479	530	402	354	148	314	136	285	346	462	5,857
Gold	300	310	111	454	120	319	293	323	448	482	373	330	130	302	117	275	317	400	5,341
Handicap	11	9	7	1	17	3	15	5	13	4	2	8	12	10	16	18	6	14

No per-hole yardages are published for Forward, so it is not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Links at Riverlakes Ranch hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

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

Plan this course in 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 Links at Riverlakes Ranch'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: Sundale Country Club (4.6 mi) · James C Haggerty North Kern Golf Course (8.0 mi) · Kern River Golf Course (14 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 California	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	6,781 yds	=308th of 889	=3,677th of 12,025	10th of 14 in the Bakersfield-Delano, CA metro area · =924th of 4,105 public courses · =1,734th of 7,004 courses you can book · =3,652nd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 130	=338th of 750	=3,777th of 8,710	=790th of 2,882 public courses · =1,625th of 4,936 courses you can book · =3,684th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 72.9	=256th of 685	=2,810th of 7,615	=632nd of 2,412 public courses · =1,220th of 4,145 courses you can book · =2,785th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,445 yds between tees	435th of 857	=5,802nd of 11,523	6th of 14 in the Bakersfield-Delano, CA metro area · =1,633rd of 3,841 public courses · =3,077th of 6,653 courses you can book · =5,711th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1999	=651st of 768	=7,780th of 9,368	=2,656th of 3,277 public courses · =4,520th of 5,526 courses you can book · =5,726th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	402 ft derived	=380th of 917	=7,741st of 12,437	8th of 14 in the Bakersfield-Delano, CA metro area · =3,062nd of 4,289 public courses · =4,975th of 7,274 courses you can book · =5,516th 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 4 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 5 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
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 2026-08-14. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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