Emerald Hills Golf Club is an 18-hole public course in Arnold Parks, Iowa.

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holes

par

6,651

yards (tips)

125

slope (blue)

The shape of the round · Blue 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: Jay Gordon Bennett reported
access: public
address: 808 US Highway 71, Arnold Parks, IA, 51331
phone: 712-332-7100
website: course site →
elevation: 1,439 ft derived
opened: 1973
turf: bent grass greens

43.35832, -95.13665 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 7 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

135 traced features across 8 layers for Emerald Hills Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

52.3ft

Elevation range

6,632yds

Blue tees

531yds

Longest hole

158yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-08-12

Height1412.5 ft1464.8 ft

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

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


Blue	M	72	6651		72.6	125	3430	3202
White	M	72	6350		71.2	122	3282	3060
Gold	M	72	5812		68.7	118	3003	2802
Gold	F	72	5812		73.1	126	3003	2802
Red	F	72	5493contested	5439	72.1	121	2799	2640

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 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	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	5	4	3	5	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	5	3	4	5	4	4	72
Blue	482	415	162	528	439	162	407	420	415	350	430	158	513	163	354	531	306	397	6,651
White	470	400	147	514	408	142	392	410	399	335	416	143	497	158	344	501	286	380	6,350
Gold	447	359	138	500	331	125	375	377	351	320	365	131	427	153	335	463	270	338	5,812
Red	392	342	130	472	319	107	352	344	341	310	349	124	417	117	326	419	250	328	5,493
Handicap	17	7	15	9	1	13	3	5	11	12	2	16	10	18	8	6	14	4

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Emerald Hills 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. 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

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Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Emerald Hills 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: Woodlyn Hills Golf Course (1.8 mi) · Brooks Golf Club (2.2 mi) · Okoboji View Golf Course (4.3 mi) · Indian Hills Golf Club (4.8 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 Iowa	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	6,651 yds	45th of 302	=4,759th of 12,025	=1,210th of 4,105 public courses · =2,301st of 7,004 courses you can book · =4,727th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 125	=53rd of 201	=5,317th of 8,710	=1,303rd of 2,882 public courses · =2,543rd of 4,936 courses you can book · =5,092nd of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 72.6	34th of 111	=3,206th of 7,615	=734th of 2,412 public courses · =1,414th of 4,145 courses you can book · =3,176th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,158 yds between tees	88th of 286	=7,568th of 11,523	2,231st of 3,841 public courses · 4,090th of 6,653 courses you can book · =7,397th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1973	=158th of 229	=4,884th of 9,368	=1,490th of 3,277 public courses · =2,620th of 5,526 courses you can book · =3,463rd of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	1,439 ft derived	12th of 319	=1,772nd of 12,437	=575th of 4,289 public courses · =1,086th of 7,274 courses you can book · 1,229th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

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 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, partly built.Contours on 11 greens, 7 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 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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