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Gates Park Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in Waterloo, Iowa.

It plays 6,839 yards from the Blue tees, rated 71.5/118 (checked 2026-08-21).

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18
holes
72
par
6,839
yards (tips)
118
slope (blue)
The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLUE TEES384536395196435526392185401493373189424440523367182398142534435465748394105114123134144155164173184PAROUT 3,450 YDSIN 3,389 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

access
public
address
820 East Donald Street, Waterloo, IA, 50703
phone
319-291-4485
elevation
870 ft derived

42.52353, -92.32355 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

OpenStreetMap has this course's outline but has not traced any of its 18 holes. The shaded area is the property; no hole, green or tee is drawn.

The outline of Gates Park Golf Course as OpenStreetMap holds it, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. No hole, green or tee has been traced inside it.

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The outline of Gates Park Golf Course as OpenStreetMap holds it, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. No hole, green or tee has been traced inside it. The map itself needs JavaScript; the outline is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-08-31

The outline is the whole of the traced geometry here, so there is no hole or green to jump to and nothing to measure a yardage against.

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-21

All 3 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 3 rows.

Blue72683971.511834503389
Yellow72638269.111332043178
Red72556867.810826952873

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.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-21

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 454345434543445434 72
Blue 384536395196435526392185401493373189424440523367182398 6,839
Yellow 371478362141422506370174380483336166405402506346162372 6,382
Red 279422299119375408323154316452299151375334457317145343 5,568

We don't hold a stroke index for this course's holes, so that row is not above. The yardages are every figure we hold hole by hole.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Gates Park Golf Course hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard, but nobody has traced its holes: the bunkers, water and fairway edges a plan aims around.

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

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Gates Park 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: Red Carpet Golf Course (0.6 mi) · Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course (3.9 mi) · Cedar Valley Golf Center (4.9 mi) · South Hills Golf Course (5.8 mi)

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
Longest6,839 yds29th of 302=3,146th of 12,0252nd of 17 in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA metro area · =783rd of 4,105 public courses · =1,490th of 7,004 courses you can book · =3,125th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,271 yds between tees70th of 286=6,904th of 11,5236th of 16 in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA metro area · =1,998th of 3,841 public courses · =3,697th of 6,653 courses you can book · =6,781st of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level870 ft derived 229th of 319=4,385th of 12,43714th of 17 in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA metro area · =1,689th of 4,289 public courses · =2,845th of 7,274 courses you can book · =3,056th 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 progress2 of 6 built

2 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 3 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 3 sets of tees.
  • Course map, partly built.The course's outline is drawn, but none of its 18 holes has been traced in OpenStreetMap yet.
  • Per-hole distances, not built yet.The holes aren't traced yet, so there are no measured carries or distances to the green.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.4 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect, the year it opened 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 2026-08-21. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Nearby courses

Red Carpet Golf Course

0.6 mi · Waterloo · semi-private · 18 holes

Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course

3.9 mi · Waterloo · public · 18 holes

Cedar Valley Golf Center

4.9 mi · Waterloo · public · 9 holes

Sunnyside Country Club

5.3 mi · Waterloo · private · 18 holes

South Hills Golf Course

5.8 mi · Waterloo · public · 18 holes

Pheasant Links

8.2 mi · Cedar Falls · resort · 18 holes

Willow Run Country Club

10 mi · Denver · semi-private · 9 holes

Beaver Hills Country Club

10 mi · private · 18 holes

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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