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River Ridge Golf Course is a 9-hole public course in Garretson, Iowa.

Designed by Marty Johnson. It plays 3,291 yards from the Blue tees, slope 117 (checked 2026-08-15).

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9
holes
36
par
3,291
yards (tips)
117
slope (blue)
The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLUE TEES461378358601160449329199356152434455364748394PAROUT 1,798 YDSIN 1,493 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

designer
Marty Johnson reported
access
public
address
25412 485th Avenue, Garretson, IA
phone
605-594-6234
elevation
1,388 ft derived
opened
1989
on site
driving range · putting green

42.75309, -95.85233 — open on OpenStreetMap →

From above

Aerial imagery of the area around River Ridge Golf Course. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it, and the frame follows the course's location rather than a surveyed property line.

Aerial imagery of the area around River Ridge Golf Course, NAIP 2023. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it.

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Aerial imagery of the area around River Ridge Golf Course, NAIP 2023. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it. The map itself needs JavaScript.

Aerial imagery only, nothing traced over it yet · USDA NAIP 2023-10-20

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

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

Sorted by Yards, descending. 3 rows.

BlueM363291117
WhiteM363111112
RedF362711116

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole 123456789 Total
Par 544534434 36
Blue 461378358601160449329199356 3,291
White 452346342552147433315180344 3,111
Red 402296319451127362291151312 2,711
Handicap 1113511731597

The Studio

The Studio can't plan River Ridge 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

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Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

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Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to River Ridge Golf Course's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

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Also bookable nearby: Marcus Community Golf Club (4.6 mi) · Remsen Golf Course (7.8 mi) · Brookside Golf Club (13 mi) · Quimby Golf Course (13 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
Longest3,291 yds140th of 3029,701st of 12,0253,053rd of 4,105 public courses · 5,363rd of 7,004 courses you can book · 317th of 1,791 9-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 117=106th of 201=7,075th of 8,710=2,058th of 2,882 public courses · =3,732nd of 4,936 courses you can book · =449th of 972 9-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread580 yds between tees156th of 286=9,850th of 11,523=3,108th of 3,841 public courses · =5,487th of 6,653 courses you can book · =689th of 1,640 9-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1989=185th of 229=6,132nd of 9,368=1,902nd of 3,277 public courses · =3,352nd of 5,526 courses you can book · =1,088th of 1,347 9-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level1,388 ft derived 21st of 319=1,864th of 12,4379th of 12 in the Sioux Falls, SD-MN metro area · =612th of 4,289 public courses · =1,151st of 7,274 courses you can book · =395th 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 progress1 of 6 built

1 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, not built yet.We don't have a course rating or slope for this course yet.
  • Course map, not built yet.We don't have a map of this course 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.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the grass on the greens.

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Sources

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Quimby Golf Course

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Landsmeer 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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