Paxton Park Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in Paducah, Kentucky.

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holes

par

6,582

yards (tips)

128

slope (gold)

The shape of the round · Gold 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: George Davies reported
access: public
address: Virginia Street, Paducah, KY, 42003
elevation: 355 ft derived
opened: 1939
turf: Champion ultradwarf bermuda greens · bermuda and zoysia fairways
on site: driving range · putting green

37.06097, -88.62829 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 17 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

146 traced features across 8 layers for Paxton Park Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,657yds

Gold tees

645yds

Longest hole

158yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-06-29

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

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


Gold	M	71	6582contested	6657	70.8	128	3366	3291
Blue	M	71	6262contested	6169	70.1	126	3059	3110
Yellow	M	71	5728		66.3	118
Red	M	71	5276contested	5005	65.4	117	2396	2609
Red	F	71	5276contested	5005	69.7	122	2396	2609

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 Gold, Blue 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

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	4	4	3	4	5	4	3	5	71
Gold	387	407	285	428	209	391	419	195	645	377	396	320	205	370	495	424	158	546	6,582
Blue	353	344	261	384	175	375	383	185	599	349	370	310	180	361	480	392	147	521	6,262
Red	303	288	220	273	118	319	277	141	457	304	304	231	146	329	395	315	142	443	5,276
Handicap	6	12	16	10	3	5	2	13	8	14	4	18	15	1	11	7	17	9

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

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Plan Paxton Park Golf Course hole by hole, for your game.

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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

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Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

Figure	This course	In Kentucky	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	6,582 yds	36th of 94	=5,347th of 12,025	=1,379th of 4,105 public courses · =2,592nd of 7,004 courses you can book · =5,309th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 128	=33rd of 76	=4,449th of 8,710	=1,009th of 2,882 public courses · =2,008th of 4,936 courses you can book · =4,313th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 70.8	=42nd of 67	=5,437th of 7,615	=1,431st of 2,412 public courses · =2,671st of 4,145 courses you can book · =5,356th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,306 yds between tees	57th of 93	=6,707th of 11,523	1,933rd of 3,841 public courses · =3,592nd of 6,653 courses you can book · =6,589th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1939	18th of 86	=2,078th of 9,368	=437th of 3,277 public courses · =885th of 5,526 courses you can book · =1,512th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	355 ft derived	101st of 101	=8,021st of 12,437	=3,152nd of 4,289 public courses · =5,111th of 7,274 courses you can book · =5,726th 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 4 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, partly built.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold a website and a phone number.

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Sources

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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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