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Thunder Hills Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Peosta, Iowa.

Designed by Gordon Cunningham. It plays 6,365 yards from the Black tees, rated 71.2/127 (checked 2026-08-15).

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18
holes
71
par
6,365
yards (tips)
127
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES345583186341157415347375495417148408576186352564192455142533445364748495104113124135143154165173184PAROUT 3,244 YDSIN 3,298 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

designer
Gordon Cunningham reported
access
private
address
16682 Thunder Hills Drive, Peosta, IA
phone
563-556-3363
elevation
1,098 ft derived
opened
1971
turf
Bentgrass/Poa greens · Bluegrass/Ryegrass/Poa fairways
on site
driving range · putting green

42.45086, -90.81557 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 15 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

189 traced features across 8 layers for Thunder Hills Country Club, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery.

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

18
Holes
22
Fairways
38
Bunkers
4
Water
18
Greens
48
Tee pads
6,542yds
Black tees
583yds
Longest hole
148yds
Shortest hole

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

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

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

Sorted by Yards, descending. 5 rows.

BlackM716365contested654271.212732443298
BlueM71605569.812430183061
GoldM715550contested560567.411827372868
GoldF715550contested560571.512327372868
RedF715151contested480669.311623422464

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 Black, Gold and 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 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 453434445434534534 71
Black 345583186341157415347375495417148408576186352564192455 6,365
Blue 316534166318144390327351472402135385525154323549156432 6,055
Gold 280482143275118367315305452385130360515150300515123390 5,550
Red 27543290226101297250288383301115320460120275400123350 5,151
Handicap 122161418610847179113113155

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Thunder Hills Country 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 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

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.

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Book nearby

Thunder Hills Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Meadows Golf Club (4.2 mi, public) · Timberline Golf Course (5.6 mi, public) · Fillmore Fairways Golf Course (9.9 mi, public) · Dyersville Golf and Country Club (15 mi, public)

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
Longest6,365 yds80th of 302=6,997th of 12,0252,220th of 2,954 private courses · =6,933rd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 127=43rd of 201=4,741st of 8,710=1,824th of 2,300 private courses · =4,585th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 71.2=56th of 111=4,997th of 7,615=1,772nd of 2,143 private courses · =4,927th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,214 yds between tees81st of 286=7,250th of 11,523=2,048th of 2,885 private courses · =7,106th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1971=147th of 229=4,617th of 9,368=1,431st of 2,418 private courses · =3,267th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level1,098 ft derived 124th of 319=2,915th of 12,437=532nd of 3,026 private courses · =1,985th 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 progress5 of 6 built

5 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 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, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course 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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Nearby courses

Meadows Golf Club

4.2 mi · Asbury · public · 18 holes

Timberline Golf Course

5.6 mi · public · 18 holes

Dubuque Country Club

7.1 mi · Dubuque · private · 18 holes

Bunker Hill Golf Course

7.3 mi · Dubuque · 18 holes

Fillmore Fairways Golf Course

9.9 mi · Fillmore · public · 18 holes

Dyersville Golf and Country Club

15 mi · Dyersville · public · 9 holes

Galena Golf Club

19 mi · Galena · semi-private · 18 holes

Bellevue Golf Club

21 mi · 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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