Pleasant Valley Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in Iowa City, Iowa.

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holes

par

6,472

yards (tips)

127

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: William J. Spear, ASGCA reported
access: public
address: 4390 Southeast Sand Road, Iowa City, IA, 52240
phone: 319-337-2622
website: course site →
elevation: 646 ft derived
opened: 1987

41.61317, -91.51665 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 23 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

208 traced features across 8 layers for Pleasant Valley Golf Course, 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

6,472yds

BLUE tees

525yds

Longest hole

150yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-09-01

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the club

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

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


BLUE	M	72	6472	70.7	127	3229	3243
White	M	72	6225	69.6	125	3095	3130
Red	M	72	5067	68.7	119	2544	2523
Yellow	M	72	4754

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

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

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	5	4	3	4	5	4	3	4	4	5	4	3	4	5	4	3	4	72
BLUE	380	510	422	150	330	520	352	185	380	410	510	328	180	400	525	360	155	375	6,472
White	365	490	405	135	320	505	340	165	370	395	500	315	170	385	515	345	145	360	6,225
Red	285	446	358	128	244	405	245	133	300	315	425	230	115	310	430	283	125	290	5,067
Handicap	13	7	3	17	15	1	11	5	9	4	16	18	12	2	6	8	14	10

No per-hole yardages are published for Yellow, so it is not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Pleasant Valley 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. 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

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.

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Pleasant Valley 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: Finkbine Golf Course (4.2 mi) · Hi Point Golf Course (5.0 mi) · Brown Deer Golf Club (6.6 mi) · Cedars Edge Golf Course (9.2 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	6,472 yds	66th of 302	=6,278th of 12,025	8th of 27 in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA combined area · 1,678th of 4,105 public courses · 3,127th of 7,004 courses you can book · =6,224th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 127	=43rd of 201	=4,741st of 8,710	5th of 20 in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA combined area · =1,094th of 2,882 public courses · =2,184th of 4,936 courses you can book · =4,585th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 70.7	=65th of 111	=5,537th of 7,615	=9th of 16 in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA combined area · =1,470th of 2,412 public courses · =2,736th of 4,145 courses you can book · =5,450th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,718 yds between tees	38th of 286	=3,986th of 11,523	6th of 27 in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA combined area · =1,086th of 3,841 public courses · =2,062nd of 6,653 courses you can book · =3,927th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1987	=182nd of 229	=5,903rd of 9,368	18th of 23 in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA combined area · =1,824th of 3,277 public courses · =3,219th of 5,526 courses you can book · =4,203rd of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	646 ft derived	311th of 319	=6,183rd of 12,437	27th of 28 in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA combined area · =2,468th of 4,289 public courses · =4,012th of 7,274 courses you can book · =4,401st of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 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, 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, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
Course details, partly built.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the grass on the greens.

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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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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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