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Butternut Creek Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in Blairsville, Georgia.

Designed by Bill Watts. It plays 6,536 yards from the Gold tees, rated 72.5/133 (checked 2026-08-21).

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18
holes
72
par
6,536
yards (tips)
133
slope (gold)
The shape of the round · Gold teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — GOLD TEES538381405158444500356138412425339204511289407309151525152434435465748394104114123135144154164173185PAROUT 3,332 YDSIN 3,160 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
Bill Watts reported
access
public
address
129 Union Co Rec Rd, Blairsville, GA 30512, USA
phone
706-439-6076
elevation
1,929 ft derived
opened
1950
turf
Penncross Bent Grass greens · Tifton 419 Bermuda fairways
on site
pro shop · restaurant

34.87550, -83.96591 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 20 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

176 traced features across 8 layers for Butternut Creek Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery.

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176 traced features across 8 layers for Butternut Creek Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
31
Fairways
7
Bunkers
8
Water
18
Greens
66
Tee pads
132.7ft
Elevation range
6,492yds
Gold tees
538yds
Longest hole
138yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-10-22

Height1804.8 ft1937.5 ft

Tees & ratings

Yardagesfrom the clubread from the scorecard imagechecked 2026-08-21

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

Sorted by Yards, descending. 5 rows.

GoldM73653672.5from the club13333323160
BlueM73602370.5from the club12330542906
WhiteM73545968.1from the club11827532598
RedF75471564.5reported, not from the club10923212105
Rep442623212105

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.

These ratings do not all come from the same place, so each row says which: from the club where the course's own card prints that figure, reported where it does not.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardfrom the clubread from the scorecard imagechecked 2026-08-21

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 544345434443544435 72
Rep 4032522831202903842141172582751939239018828019394400 4,426
Gold 538381405158444500356138412425339204511289407309151525 6,536
Blue 502335382144408452306129396388305185470268368296128498 6,023
White 489295336127309431268122376371249139423231309288120468 5,459
Red 4032522831202903842141172582751939239018828019394400 4,715
Handicap 739151151317168161014212184

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Butternut Creek Golf Course 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. The greens on 12 of its 18 holes were surveyed, so it reads their slope there 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 Butternut Creek Golf Course'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: Old Union Golf Course (5.4 mi) · Brasstown Valley Resort (9.0 mi) · Chatuge Shores Golf Course (12 mi) · Mountain Harbour Golf Club (18 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn GeorgiaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,536 yds247th of 406=5,759th of 12,025=1,508th of 4,105 public courses · =2,827th of 7,004 courses you can book · =5,714th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 133=144th of 270=2,813th of 8,710=559th of 2,882 public courses · =1,174th of 4,936 courses you can book · =2,750th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 72.5=137th of 242=3,344th of 7,615=777th of 2,412 public courses · =1,492nd of 4,145 courses you can book · =3,312th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,110 yds between tees84th of 396=1,725th of 11,523=411th of 3,841 public courses · =817th of 6,653 courses you can book · =1,688th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1950=37th of 303=2,308th of 9,368=507th of 3,277 public courses · =1,004th of 5,526 courses you can book · =1,661st of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level1,929 ft derived 7th of 4101,300th of 12,437395th of 4,289 public courses · 759th of 7,274 courses you can book · 939th 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 progress5 of 7 built

5 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 4 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 4 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, partly built.Contours on 12 greens, 12 of them surveyed too thinly to trust and 6 more the survey is too coarse to measure at all.
  • Green slope and pin positions, not built yet.We haven't worked out the fall lines and pin positions on these greens yet.
  • Course details, built.All 7 background details — architect, year opened, access, contact and grass.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. What's left on this course is ours to build rather than ours to be told — it comes from mapping and survey data, not from a form. Coverage sets out where the whole database stands.

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 2026-08-24. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Old Union Golf Course

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Brasstown Valley Resort

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Chatuge Shores Golf Course

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Mountain Harbour Golf Club

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Waterfall Golf Club

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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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