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Santa Barbara Golf Club is an 18-hole course in Santa Barbara, California.

Designed by William Hughes. It plays 6,022 yards from the Blue tees, rated 69.4/123 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
70
par
6,022
yards (tips)
123
slope (blue)
The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLUE TEES34512829137136847542219650614438745198393379196395477142334445465748395103114124133144154163174185PAROUT 3,102 YDSIN 2,920 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
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
William Hughes reported
address
3500 McCaw Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
elevation
244 ft derived
opened
1958
on site
pro shop · lessons

34.43615, -119.73861 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 10 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

183 traced features across 8 layers for Santa Barbara Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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183 traced features across 8 layers for Santa Barbara Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
24
Fairways
47
Bunkers
2
Water
18
Greens
43
Tee pads
118.9ft
Elevation range
6,022yds
Blue tees
506yds
Longest hole
98yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-05-13

Height147.3 ft266.2 ft

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 8 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 8 rows.

BlueM70602269.412331022920
WhiteM70571167.911929212790
WhiteF72contested70571173.512929212790
GoldF72contested70544772.112627922655
GoldM70544766.611627922655
Gold/GreenF72487068.6118
GreenF72contested70415464.210521092045
GreenM70415461.010221092045

Every figure as published except Card par (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 White, Gold and Green tees publish a par 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 Par column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own par row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 434445435344344345 70
Blue 34512829137136847542219650614438745198393379196395477 6,022
White 32510426634435546541216248813437043788382371170386452 5,711
Gold 3077925233334945840214147112435042483371364162367410 5,447
Green 240792042192113403616638912426733783288293122251280 4,154
Handicap 151795313171116144186108212

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

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Santa Barbara Golf Club 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. This course's greens were surveyed, so it reads their slope too.

  • The approach, planned A Studio approach map on the aerial photo: a lob wedge aimed at the island green, its spread drawn as a dashed ring over the water, and the side it most often misses. Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • The green, from LiDAR A Studio green view on the aerial photo: arrows for the slope a LiDAR survey measured, the area a cup could be cut, and the safer side to miss. Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • Every shot, tee to green A Studio plan on the aerial photo of a desert par 4: the driver off the tee and a 7-iron into the green between the bunkers, each shot with its landing spread drawn as a dashed ring. 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.

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Santa Barbara Golf Club'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: Glen Annie Golf Club (8.1 mi) · Sandpiper Golf Course (9.6 mi) · Rancho San Marcos Golf Course (11 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn CaliforniaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,022 yds666th of 889=8,398th of 12,025=8,321st of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 123=542nd of 750=5,905th of 8,710=5,611th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 69.4=576th of 685=6,482nd of 7,615=6,340th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,868 yds between tees=223rd of 857=3,003rd of 11,523=2,956th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1958=202nd of 768=2,734th of 9,368=1,968th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level244 ft derived =536th of 917=8,773rd of 12,437=6,294th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

A published figure is compared only against the courses that publish it too, which is why the totals differ from row to row — a state's length field is the courses with a scorecard, not the courses in the state. Height above sea level is the exception: we derive it from a coordinate, so its field is very nearly every course we render. Ties share an ordinal and are marked =. How this is computed →

What's on this page

In progress6 of 7 built

6 of 7 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

  • Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 7 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 8 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, built.Half-foot contours on all 18 measured greens, from public LiDAR.
  • Green slope and pin positions, built.Fall lines and the pinnable area on 18 greens — the figures the Caddie plans against.
  • Course details, partly built.4 of 7 background details — we don't hold whether it is public or private, a phone number and 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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Sandpiper Golf Course

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Rancho San Marcos Golf Course

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Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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