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Backbone Golf and Country Club is a 9-hole public course in Iowa.

It plays 3,006 yards from the White tees, slope 105 (checked 2026-08-15).

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9
holes
35
par
3,006
yards (tips)
105
slope (white)
The shape of the round · White teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — WHITE TEES385375504260330236190401325142435445463738494PAROUT 1,524 YDSIN 1,482 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 9 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

access
public
address
400th Street, IA
elevation
1,131 ft derived
opened
1966

42.64197, -91.55873 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 9 holes, their lines predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery and numbered against the scorecard. Its greens, fairways and bunkers are predicted the same way.

23 features across 5 layers for Backbone Golf and Country Club, 1 traced and 22 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery.

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23 features across 5 layers for Backbone Golf and Country Club, 1 traced and 22 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

© OpenStreetMap contributors · Holes and outlines predicted by a model trained on OpenStreetMap data · GeoJSON

Holes and outlines predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

9
Holes · predicted
1
Fairways · predicted
3
Bunkers · predicted
9
Greens · predicted
3,006yds
White tees
504yds
Longest hole
190yds
Shortest hole

1 imported from OpenStreetMap and 22 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-08-30

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 4 tee sets par, yardage, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 4 rows.

WhiteM353006105
GoldM352756103
GoldF36contested352756101
RedF36contested35265099

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.

The Gold and Red 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 — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole 123456789 Total
Par 445443344 35
White 385375504260330236190401325 3,006
Gold 370375427245317225177323310 2,756
Red 355362417186307213169323305 2,650
Handicap 7511139311517

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Backbone Golf and Country Club hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 23 of its features, 1 traced and 22 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 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

See the courses it plans Open 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

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn IowaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest3,006 yds220th of 302=10,507th of 12,025=3,369th of 4,105 public courses · =5,931st of 7,004 courses you can book · 1,035th of 1,791 9-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 105=188th of 201=8,208th of 8,710=2,624th of 2,882 public courses · =4,592nd of 4,936 courses you can book · =874th of 972 9-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread356 yds between tees217th of 286=10,725th of 11,523=3,479th of 3,841 public courses · =6,096th of 6,653 courses you can book · =1,224th of 1,640 9-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1966=117th of 229=3,897th of 9,368=1,095th of 3,277 public courses · =1,972nd of 5,526 courses you can book · =795th of 1,347 9-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level1,131 ft derived =104th of 319=2,763rd of 12,437=1,008th of 4,289 public courses · =1,784th of 7,274 courses you can book · =575th of 1,830 9-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 progress3 of 6 built

3 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, not built yet.We don't have a course rating or slope for this course yet.
  • Course map, built.All 9 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.3 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect, a website and a phone number, and 1 more.

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 published information 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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