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South Hills Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in Waterloo, Iowa.

It plays 6,683 yards from the Blue tees, rated 72.1/119 (checked 2026-08-21).

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18
holes
72
par
6,683
yards (tips)
119
slope (blue)
The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLUE TEES341355593165388322362221511394403153539434385184528405142435435464748395104114123135144154163175184PAROUT 3,258 YDSIN 3,425 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
Hess Road, Waterloo, IA, 50701
phone
319-291-4268
elevation
905 ft derived

42.43943, -92.32499 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes, their lines predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery and numbered against the scorecard. Its greens, fairways, bunkers and water are predicted the same way.

55 features across 6 layers for South Hills Golf Course, 1 traced and 54 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery.

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55 features across 6 layers for South Hills Golf Course, 1 traced and 54 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

18
Holes · predicted
12
Fairways · predicted
5
Bunkers · predicted
1
Water · predicted
18
Greens · predicted
6,683yds
Blue tees
593yds
Longest hole
153yds
Shortest hole

1 imported from OpenStreetMap and 54 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-08-31

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-21

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

Sorted by Yards, descending. 4 rows.

Blue72668372.111932583425
Yellow72629968.510830233276
White72604267.910528793163
Red72543771.410826762761

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 445344435443544354 72
Blue 341355593165388322362221511394403153539434385184528405 6,683
Yellow 331309493156378316354184502388386146531366370176516397 6,299
White 327300490150338310345179440380380139480360360171505388 6,042
Red 323291433131285307305174427325285133466310315164438325 5,437

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 South Hills Golf Course hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 55 of its features, 1 traced and 54 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

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to South Hills 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: Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course (3.7 mi) · Cedar Valley Golf Center (3.9 mi) · Red Carpet Golf Course (5.3 mi) · Gates Park 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
Longest6,683 yds39th of 302=4,496th of 12,0255th of 17 in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA metro area · =1,148th of 4,105 public courses · =2,160th of 7,004 courses you can book · =4,464th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,246 yds between tees72nd of 286=7,063rd of 11,5237th of 16 in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA metro area · =2,064th of 3,841 public courses · =3,799th of 6,653 courses you can book · =6,932nd of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level905 ft derived =210th of 319=4,083rd of 12,43710th of 17 in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA metro area · =1,558th of 4,289 public courses · =2,652nd of 7,274 courses you can book · =2,833rd 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 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 4 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 4 sets of tees.
  • Course map, built.All 18 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.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

Sunnyside Country Club

3.4 mi · Waterloo · private · 18 holes

Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course

3.7 mi · Waterloo · public · 18 holes

Cedar Valley Golf Center

3.9 mi · Waterloo · public · 9 holes

Red Carpet Golf Course

5.3 mi · Waterloo · semi-private · 18 holes

Gates Park Golf Course

5.8 mi · Waterloo · public · 18 holes

Pheasant Links

10 mi · Cedar Falls · resort · 18 holes

La Porte City Golf Club

12 mi · La Porte City · semi-private · 9 holes

Jesup Golf & Country Club

13 mi · Jesup · semi-private · 9 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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