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Back Creek Golf Club is an 18-hole public course in Middletown, Delaware.

Designed by Allen Liddicoat and David Horne. It plays 7,242 yards from the Black tees, rated 74.4/134 (checked 2026-08-15).

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18
holes
71
par
7,242
yards (tips)
134
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES417191435357541326433158460450530446462191413551159437142334445564748394104115124134143154165173184PAROUT 3,318 YDSIN 3,639 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
Allen Liddicoat and David Horne reported
access
public
address
101 Back Creek Dr, Middletown, DE 19709, USA
phone
365-232-2335
elevation
67 ft derived
opened
1997
on site
driving range · putting green · restaurant

39.50098, -75.76028 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. The course outline is inferred from the mapped holes — OpenStreetMap has no outline for this course, so the shaded area is our own and the real property line may sit wider or tighter. 19 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one. The map below draws everything that has been traced.

200 traced features across 7 layers for Back Creek Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery.

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200 traced features across 7 layers for Back Creek Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
22
Fairways
72
Bunkers
2
Water
18
Greens
52
Tee pads
57.8ft
Elevation range
6,957yds
Black tees
551yds
Longest hole
158yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-07-11

Height14.2 ft72 ft

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

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

Sorted by Yards, descending. 5 rows.

BlackM717242contested695774.413433183639
BlueM716676contested650371.812831263377
WhiteM716176contested606269.512229133149
GoldM715271contested517565.312223872788
RedF715014contested481069.311522772533

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 Black, Blue, White, Gold and 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 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 434454434454434534 71
Black 417191435357541326433158460450530446462191413551159437 7,242
Blue 384182435341505319386136438435496396440173390500142405 6,676
White 360159380325480305366124414405470365407155353480129385 6,176
Gold 307126301274408285288103295292450345343142325470119302 5,271
Red 3071263012544082012889929328740931433998317365103301 5,014
Handicap 915151311717384102161214186

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Back Creek 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.

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Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Back Creek 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: Frog Hollow Golf Club (3.6 mi) · The St Anne S Club (5.8 mi) · Patriots Glen Golf Club (8.7 mi) · Odessa National Golf Club (8.7 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn DelawareNationwideAmong its peers
Longest7,242 yds5th of 42=509th of 12,0257th of 160 in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area · 111th of 4,105 public courses · =201st of 7,004 courses you can book · =509th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 134=12th of 33=2,523rd of 8,710=54th of 117 in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area · =499th of 2,882 public courses · =1,046th of 4,936 courses you can book · =2,467th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 74.4=5th of 33=1,009th of 7,615=21st of 114 in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area · =214th of 2,412 public courses · =386th of 4,145 courses you can book · =1,002nd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,228 yds between tees7th of 42=1,318th of 11,5239th of 159 in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area · =303rd of 3,841 public courses · =611th of 6,653 courses you can book · =1,286th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 199719th of 33=7,397th of 9,368=96th of 124 in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area · =2,460th of 3,277 public courses · =4,233rd of 5,526 courses you can book · =5,419th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level67 ft derived 17th of 44=10,460th of 12,437143rd of 165 in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area · =3,870th of 4,289 public courses · =6,375th of 7,274 courses you can book · =7,549th 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 5 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, 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.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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